Sadykov Ildar Venerovich

Sadykov Ildar Venerovich

Biography

Many years in the tech industry. He went through a career path from an ordinary system administrator to the head of departments providing comprehensive infrastructure protection, led projects for the implementation of information security systems, participated in the investigation of incidents and built security monitoring processes.

He led the information security and IT departments in such organizations as "[Aladdin RD]." and. FSBI "Federal Bureau of Medical and Social Expertise" Ministry of Labour and Social Protection Russia He also headed the department for the development of expertise of cyber training and mentoring in the company, Positive Technologies where he was responsible for designing systems for assessing the competencies of information security specialists, creating educational content, as well as training and training Blue Team teams.

An authoritative teacher and mentor in the field of information security and network technologies. As of November 2025, collaborates with the relevant departments of RTU MIREA and MSTU named after N.E. Bauman. He has experience in developing and reading educational courses, creating laboratory stands, organizing the educational process in a number of large Russian universities.

2025: Chief UserGate uFactor Expert

UserGate on November 26, 2025 announced a new personnel appointment. Ildar Sadykov, one of the leading specialists and teachers in the field of information technology and information security in the country, began working as the chief expert of UserGate uFactor. He became the leader of a team that will focus on strengthening the role of UserGate as a supplier of his own expertise to the company's customers and partners. In addition, Ildar's tasks included optimizing cross-functional links between departments and UserGate commands.

Ildar Sadykov is a specialist, largely unique to the Russian cybersecurity industry. He is not only an authoritative information security expert. Its main quality is the ability to interact with any audience, from ordinary people to professionals. Its competencies are close to the values ​ ​ and development plans of UserGate. We are developing our competence center, are ready to share knowledge and skills with all interested people and strive to become not only a vendor of products and technologies, but also an authoritative supplier of expertise for the entire information security industry, "said Mikhail Penkovsky, vice president of sales and marketing at UserGate.

In the field of attention of Ildar Sadykov will be the solution of four serious tasks facing UserGate uFactor. First of all, it will provide the uFactor expertise to the interested divisions of the company, from the preparation and updating of materials to the design and creation of its own UserGate cyberpoligon. In addition, Ildar will solve problems related to the development of onboarding processes for new employees of the company.

Another area of ​ ​ the expert's work will be professional interaction with the industry community and the promotion of the company as an industrial expert center. Ildar's tasks include interaction with the UserGate Academy: participation in the development of educational tracks aimed at improving the qualifications of specialists, adapting educational solutions, developing and describing career tracks for various information security specialties.

The UserGate proposal bribed large-scale ambitious tasks. The company offered to take over the leadership of projects that are related to the translation of its competencies both for its own UserGate divisions and for customers and partners. At the same time, I will combine two roles in my work - a manager who leads a team of specialists, and a practice that is directly involved in the development of industry education technologies, - said Ildar Sadykov.