ALPEROV Dmitri Alperovitch cofounded CrowdStrike, a security
technology firm that helps businesses and governments defend their intellectual
property and secrets from cyber espionage and cyber crime, in 2011 and later
became its chief technology officer.
Alperovitch graduated from Georgia Tech with a master's
degree in information security and a bachelor's degree in computer science.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Alperovitch worked with a
variety of computer security start-ups, including CipherTrust, which pioneered
the TrustedSource reputation system.
He headed the research team that developed the software as a
service company when CipherTrust was bought by Secure Computing in 2006.
When McAfee purchased Secure Computing in 2008, Alpero vitch
became vice president of threat research.
In January 2010, he oversaw Operation Aurora, a probe of
Google and two dozen other firms' Chinese breaches.
He also headed the investigation of Western multinational
oil and gas firms' Night Dragon espionage program, which he tracked to a
Chinese person residing in Heze City, Shandong Province, People's Republic of
China.
Alp erovitch was also honored with the coveted Government
100 Award in 2011 for his services to federal information security in the
United States.
Alperovitch was named one of Washingtonian's "Tech
Titans" in 2013 and 2015 for his achievements in the area of cyber
security.
In 2013, he was named one of MIT Technology Review's
"Top 35 Innovators Under 35." In addition to his work at CrowdStrike,
Alperovitch is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Cyber
Statecraft Initiative.
Alperovitch has done substantial research on reputation systems, spam detection, Web security, public-key and identity-based cryptography, malware detection and prevention, and public-key and identity-based cryptography.