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Pavel Minarik

As Vice President of Technology at Progress Software, I'm responsible for overarching technology strategy and architecture of our Enterprise Application Experience products such as Flowmon, Loadmaster and What's Up Gold and experimental development in this area.

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 I have participated in several research and development projects in domain of network traffic monitoring, analysis and cyber security. I'm 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”.

Articles by the Author

Investigating Network Anomalies – A sample workflow
Network anomalies vary in nature. While some of them are easy to understand at first sight, there are anomalies that require investigation before a resolution can be made. The MITRE ATT&CK framework introduced in Flowmon ADS 11.3 streamlines the analysis process and gives security analyst additional insight by leveraging knowledge of adversaries' techniques explaining network anomalies via the ATT&CK framework point of view.
Flowmon Detects Windows DNS SIGRed Exploitation
The vulnerability called SIGRed (CVE-2020-1350) has been around for 17 years, during which time it was present in Windows Server operating systems from version 2003 through 2019 and received a maximum severity rating of 10. It was finally patched in July 2020.
How Flowmon Helps to Detect SUNBURST Trojan Attack in Your Network
Flowmon Anomaly Detection System from Kemp now contains Indicators of Compromise (IoC) for the SUNBURST trojan specifically. Users of the Flowmon network detection and response (NDR) tool can check if they are under attack and set up measures to detect SUNBURST.
Load Balancing and NetSecOps - What’s the Deal?
Kemp, known for its well-tuned and easy-to-use load balancer LoadMaster, has acquired Flowmon, extending its product portfolio and growing through acquisition. So you may ask, how does the technology fit?
Flowmon Incident Response
This document is aimed at operators and analysts who use Flowmon to detect and analyse security events.
Boosting Enterprise IT to the Next Level
This is the story of a large-sized company (1000-5000 employees) that understood the importance of IT in the digital era and its business impact. The IT department needed a new impetus to reconsider tools and processes in place.
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