Deepen Desai

CISO & VP Security Research at Zscaler

As Chief Information Security Officer & VP Security Research at Zscaler, Deepen Desai is responsible for running the global security research operations as well as working with the product group to ensure that the Zscaler platform and services are secure. Deepen has been actively involved in the field of cybersecurity for the past 15 years. Prior to joining Zscaler, he held a security leadership role at Dell SonicWALL.

OnDemand | Minimize Ransomware Damage by Stopping Lateral Movement

Presented by Deepen Desai , Sahir Hidayatullah • October 26, 2021

Organized ransomware groups like DarkSide and REvil consistently bypass existing defenses at some of the world’s most well-defended organizations. Once they gain entry, they move laterally to encrypt and steal as much sensitive data as possible. If you can stop their ability to move laterally, you dramatically...

Latest Ransomware Outbreak Spreading From Eastern Europe

Deepen Desai • February 27, 2018

A new strain of the Petya ransomware called "Bad Rabbit" is impacting business and sweeping across Russia and Ukraine, among other Eastern European countries. Like many of the other ransomware outbreaks, understanding fact from fiction is the first step in staying safe.

Mitigate Risks and Protect Your Users from Cyberattacks, Avoid the Yahoo Data Breach

Presented by Deepen Desai , Gerard Festa • November 17, 2016

How do you protect against cyberattacks? If you're like most organizations, you have layered security defenses that safeguard common threat vectors at your endpoints, as well as your apps and services. You may even have training policies in place to teach your employees not to click on malware embedded in a phishing...

Dissecting the Latest Security Attacks

Presented by Deepen Desai , Gerard Festa • November 10, 2016

Sophisticated, new cyberattacks are employing a range of techniques that make them invisible to traditional security controls. For example, just when you think you've trained your users not to click on links from untrusted sources, an unsuspecting user visiting a compromised site can fall victim to the latest strain...