Dmitri Alperovitch

Dmitri Alperovitch is a renowned cybersecurity expert and Co-Founder and CTO of CrowdStrike Inc.In 2016, Alperovitch revealed the suspected Russian intelligence agencies' hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), events which later led to the resignation of top leadership of the DNC in the midst of the presidential campaign.In 2010 and 2011, Alperovitch led the global team that investigated and brought to light Operation Aurora, Night Dragon and Shady RAT groundbreaking cyberespionage intrusions, and gave those incidents their names.In 2013, Alperovitch received the prestigious recognition of being selected as MIT Technology Review's "Young Innovators under 35" (TR35), an award previously won by such technology luminaries as Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg and Jonathan Ive.Alperovitch was named Foreign Policy Magazine's Leading Global Thinker for 2013, an award shared with Secretary of State John Kerry, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.He was the recipient of the prestigious Federal 100 Award for his contributions to the federal information security in 2011 and recognized in 2013 and 2015 as one of Washingtonian's Tech Titans for his accomplishments in the field of cybersecurity.As a recognized authority on cyberespionage, cyber warfare, online organized criminal activity, and cybersecurity, Alperovitch has appeared on numerous television shows, including 60 Minutes, Viceland, CNBC documentaries, as well as a number of documentary feature films.Alperovitch is a Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council and holds a master's degree in Information Security and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, both from Georgia Institute of Technology. Show less «