Chernov Ivan Alekseyevich

Chernov Ivan Alekseyevich

Biography

2022

For April 2022 - UserGate Development Manager.

TAdviser interview

Ivan Chernov, UserGate Development Manager, in November 2022, in an interview with TAdviser, spoke about the prospects for the first full-fledged Russian NGFW after the departure of foreign vendors. Read more here.

2024: TAdviser interview

2022

Now NGFW has become one of the most promising areas for Russian developers of protective equipment, but this has not always been the case. From the very beginning, UserGate started developing NGFW, and for a long time it had to compete only with foreign manufacturers. Nevertheless, the company has worked out its product and is now actually the leader of this segment in Russia. Its understanding is as close as possible to the Gartner concept, so it is most valuable to find out the opinion of its specialists. Ivan Chernov, UserGate Development Manager, agreed to answer TAdviser's questions in May 2024. Read more here.

2025: Product Strategy Director, UserGate

On May 22, 2025, UserGate announced the appointment of Ivan Chernov as Director of Product Strategy. He is now responsible for shaping the product loop of the UserGate SUMMA ecosystem, as well as providing direct and feedback to the company's key customers to integrate their critical technology and business needs into the development of integrated digital infrastructure protection solutions.

Ivan Chernov has important competencies for new sequential steps to develop UserGate, combining a deep understanding of the nature and vector of our technologies in response to market expectations and is able to build effective strategic communications. His transition to this position is a natural stage of our transformation into a company where products and solutions are developing in close contact with the formation of the customer's needs, - said Alexander Levchenko, co-founder director of UserGate.

The main value of the assignment is the creation of a direct and reverse communication channel between customer expectations on the one hand and UserGate development management on the other. Decision-makers get the opportunity to openly and targeted share constructive feedback, criticism, ideas, proposals and be sure that their interests will be taken into account in the development and development of our products, "said Dmitry Kurashev, Director-Co-Founder of UserGate.

For me, it is fundamentally important to build an open and honest dialogue with current and potential customers - not only to hear their needs, but also to understand the deep business processes behind them. Therefore, I plan to focus on forming a system of open interaction with top managers of key sectors of the economy in order to together shape the future of real Russian cybersecurity, "said Ivan Chernov, director of product strategy at UserGate.