Michael Mestrovich joins Rubrik with more than two decades of experience in public and private sector IT and security leadership, most recently serving as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). At the CIA, Mestrovich led the Agency’s cyber defense operations, developing and implementing cyber security regulations and standards, and directed the evaluation and engineering of cyber technologies. Before Mestrovich’s career in the public sector, he was a systems engineer at Cisco Systems and served in the U.S. Air Force.
In the wake of increasing cybercrime, awareness and security are keeping pace. But growing tensions around the world are making an impact.
This is partly due to evidence showing governments in the conflict are leveraging both official cyber resources and patriotic – or perhaps opportunistic – cyber-criminal groups in the digital domain.
These entities have conducted a wide range of malicious cyber activities from destructive attacks to espionage intrusions and misinformation operations.