Pavel Minarik

With over 20 years of experience in enterprise IT and security, Pavel’s career at Progress started in 2021 after the acquisition of Kemp Technologies and Flowmon Networks. As Acting CISO at Progress, Pavel is responsible for overseeing enterprise-wide information security strategy, risk management and regulatory compliance. His role is focused on aligning security initiatives with business objectives, strengthening security posture, building resilient security programs and leading cross-functional teams in complex, fast-paced environments.

As Vice President of Product Security at Progress, he is responsible for the secure software development life cycle across all Progress products, defining and implementing product security standards and ensuring that security is inherent to the product development practice. During M&A initiatives, Pavel leads product security reviews and assessments as part of technical due diligence.

In his previous role as Vice President of Technology, he was responsible for the overarching technology strategy of Progress’ Flowmon, Loadmaster and WhatsUp Gold Infrastructure Management products—as well as experimental development in this area. With his experience as the former CTO of Flowmon Networks, Pavel led product management for Progress’ flagship Flowmon NPMD & NDR solution.

As a former senior researcher at the Institute of Computer Science of Masaryk University, Pavel has participated in several R&D projects across network traffic monitoring, analysis and cybersecurity domains. He is also the author of more than ten publications on behavior analysis and algorithms for traffic processing and anomaly detection, summarized in his Ph.D. thesis, “Building a System for Network Security Monitoring.”

Areas of Expertise:

• Cybersecurity
• Network Detection & Response
• Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics
• Software Development

Credentials & Publications

• 10+ years membership in AFCEA Czech Chapter
• MINAŘÍK, Pavel. Building a System for Network Security Monitoring. Ph.D. thesis. Brno, 2012.
• VYKOPAL, Jan; Tomáš PLESNÍK and Pavel MINAŘÍK. Network-based Dictionary Attack Detection. In Proceedings of International Conference on Future Networks (ICFN 2009). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, 2009, pp. 23-27. ISBN 978-0-7695-3567-8.
• MINAŘÍK, Pavel; Vojtěch KRMÍČEK and Jan VYKOPAL. Improving Host Profiling With Bidirectional Flows. In 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering. Vancouver, Canada: IEEE Computer Society, 2009, p. 231-237. ISBN 978-0-7695-3823-5.
• DYMÁČEK, Tomáš and Pavel MINAŘÍK. NetFlow Data Visualization Based on Graphs. In Visualization for Computer Security, 5th International Workshop, VizSEC 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 2008, pp. 144-151. ISBN 978-3-540-85931-4.