Pavel Minarik

As the VP, Product Security at Progress, Pavel Minarik is responsible for the overarching technology strategy and architecture of our Enterprise Application Experience products such as Flowmon, LoadMaster and WhatsUp Gold and experimental development in this area.

In his own words, "My vision is to empower enterprises with always on application experience accompanied with secure and well performing digital environment. On premise. In the data center. In private & public cloud. Consolidated picture of the network, applications and security in single Application Delivery, NetOps & SecOps solution with easy to use and flexible user interface providing insight out of the box."

As a senior researcher of Institute of Computer Science of Masaryk University, Pavel has participated in several research and development projects in domain of network traffic monitoring, analysis and cybersecurity. He's also the author of more than ten publications in the domain of behavior analysis and several algorithms for traffic processing and anomaly detection summarized in PhD thesis “Building a System for Network Security Monitoring”.