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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

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Journey from Reactive IT to Proactive Control
This is the story of a medium-sized company (250-1000 employees) on its transition from a reactive IT department that acted like a firefighter, to a modern team having full control and visibility in their digital environment.
Flowmon Infrastructure Management
Pavel Minarik March 23, 2020
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Validate Indicators of Compromise in Your Network
You may have recently come across indicators of compromise (IoC), such as malicious IP addresses, which you can use to validate whether you have been affected or not. For example, a national cyber security agency can approach you to validate specific IoCs in your environment and report back to them. Flowmon can help you with this. You can simply do a retrospective analysis and proactive real-time monitoring to detect the occurrence of such IoCs.
Flowmon Infrastructure Management
Pavel Minarik March 17, 2020
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Network Traffic Monitoring with and without Encrypted Traffic Visibility
Having or not having an encrypted traffic analysis feature in your network monitoring system makes a huge difference.
Flowmon Infrastructure Management
Pavel Minarik March 06, 2020
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Cutting SaaS Troubleshooting Time with Network Performance Metrics
With the popularity of SaaS platforms on the rise, network performance metrics become an invaluable tool in the hands of network administrators, who cannot afford to waste time resolving issues that originate outside their network.
Flowmon Infrastructure Management
Pavel Minarik August 14, 2019
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ICS/SCADA Monitoring and Anomaly Detection
Operational Technology and Information Technology are merging. And spoken frankly, they do not understand each other. OT systems have lived for years totally isolated and now they should be connected to enterprise networks or the internet. The lack of security measures in this environment, where availability and integrity will return us back in time, means we will have to deal with the very same issues that experienced IT professionals solved 20 years ago.
Flowmon Infrastructure Management
Pavel Minarik May 24, 2019
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Packets and Flow Data: best of breed combination for network forensics
IT experts usually distinguish between two types of systems for network monitoring: flow-based and packet-based. But facing today's challenges brought by bandwidth explosion, new platforms and hyper-connectivity they must change their relationship from simple coexistence to fruitful cooperation. And this is exactly what we have delivered to IT ops by introducing Flowmon 10 and Rolling Memory Buffer feature. Let’s see what benefits it brings for network forensics.
Flowmon Infrastructure Management
Pavel Minarik April 29, 2019
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