Oliver Tavakoli

Chief Technology Officer

Oliver Tavakoli is Chief Technology Officer at Vectra AI. He sets the technical strategy for the company. Oliver has overseen the adoption of technology in cybersecurity for over 25 years, the last ten of which have been at Vectra AI. Prior to Vectra AI, Oliver was the CTO for the security business of Juniper Networks. He joined Juniper as a result of its acquisition of Funk Software, where Oliver was the CTO.

Earlier in his career, Oliver worked at IBM, Fluent Machines, and Novell Inc and founded Trilogy Inc, which was acquired by Funk Software.

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Does Decryption Help You Find Advanced Attacks?

Is decrypting packet payloads operationally effective or efficient at helping defenders find signs of advanced nation state attacks or manually executed attacks like RansomOps in a network?

Russian Wiper Malware is Novel – Protecting Against it Need Not Be

While this wiper malware is new, it reuses much of the playbook employed by Russian state actors and ransomware gangs - fighting back requires us to sharpen the tools we already have.

Office 365 Threats and Inversion of the Corporate Network

The number of threats targeted towards Office 365 users and other similar platforms will undoubtedly continue to grow in 2021. Learn from our CTO, Oliver Tavakoli, what your company can do to prepare for the rise of targeted SaaS threats in 2021.

The Year in Review—and the Year to Come

Vectra CTO Oliver Tavakoli looks back on a disruptive 2020 and shares his view of what 2021 holds for security practices.

Why It's Okay to Be Underwhelmed by Cisco ETA

Cisco recently <a href="https://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1854555" target="_blank">announced</a> the term "intent-based networking" in a press release that pushes the idea that networks need to be more intuitive. One element of that intuition is for networks to be more secure without requiring a lot of heavy lifting by local network security professionals.

Heartbleed Vulnerability: Risks Inside Your Network

Explore the risks of the Heartbleed vulnerability within internal networks and how to mitigate these threats.