Kuzevanov Dmitry Igorevich

Kuzevanov Dmitry Igorevich

Biography

He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) with a degree in Business Informatics.

2015: Lead developer of "ABC of Taste"

At the ABC of Taste, he began his career as a leading developer, in which he worked from 2015 to 2017.

2017: Director of Information Security (CISO) at the ABC of Taste

Then he moved from 2017 to the position of CISO (Director for Information Security) and fully built information security processes in the company. So, under the leadership of Dmitry Azbuk Vkusa, she was the first in Russian retail to launch the Bug bounty program and became a technological partner of the Positive Hack Days international forum on practical security. Concurrently, since 2019, he also worked as an architect of information technology.

2021: CTO "Alphabet of Taste"

In 2021, he was appointed to the position of CTO "ABC of Taste." In this position, he was responsible for the technological development of the company.

For 2 years, he also built infrastructure architecture, built a long-term roadmap, increased SLA services to 99% + and reduced the level e-com of system complaints by 2 times.

2023

Director, UserGate Monitoring and Response Center

On August 23, 2023, UserGate announced to TAdviser the appointment of Dmitry Kuzevanov as Director of the Monitoring and Response Center (MRC). His duties include building the work of the division in the context of adjusting goals, increasing the level of its expertise, organizing the company's internal information security system. In addition, one of Kuzevanov's tasks is to promote awareness of UserGate products and solutions in the information security market of Russia.

Former CISO and CTO "Alphabet of Taste" moved to UserGate

As noted by the director-co-founder of UserGate Dmitry Kurashev, the company expects that Dmitry Kuzevanov, having long experience in practical work in the field of information security and, in particular, managing the technical directorate of ABC of Taste for several years, will be able to strengthen the key division in UserGate and fulfill the tasks in this strategic direction.

"I have set ambitious goals to create and implement a new development strategy for the UserGate Monitoring and Response Center, to bring the division to a new level of efficiency, reveal and realize its potential, increase its own expertise and maintain the company's traditions and values that are close to me. I accepted the offer of UserGate, because this is Russian INFORMATION SECURITY a vendor that has both deep roots and a history of development in the field, and cyber security mature information security products that are today drivers of the entire domestic infobesis market, "commented Dmitry Kuzevanov.

Dmitry Kuzevanov moved to UserGate from the Azbuka Vkusa company, where he had previously held senior managerial positions.

"Dmitry worked at the company for 8 years, went from leading developer to CTO and established himself as a responsible and valuable employee. He implemented a number of projects, including from scratch and completely built an information security system, - said Denis Sologub, president of ABC of Taste. "I thank him for the work done and on behalf of the whole company I wish Dmitry new large-scale projects and points of application of his knowledge and skills."

On the formation of three separate areas of activity in the UserGate Monitoring and Response Center

UserGate Big changes are planned at the Monitoring and Response Centre (MRC). In particular, three separate areas of activity are being formed - expertise, SOC and/or. Such auditconsulting INFORMATION SECURITY information was TAdviser shared with representatives of UserGate in November 2023.

As the director of MRC UserGate Dmitry Kuzevanov specified, the first direction - expertise - already exists. MRC engineers are improving UserGate products, making them more modern and efficient. They investigate current threats, vulnerabilities, exploits and other important information that should be taken into account in products. All this is reflected in new functionality, signatures, filtering lists and compromise indices.

I would say that engineers are constantly increasing and training the immunity of products so that later they can most effectively withstand current attacks and threats, - said the top manager.

Also, among the tasks of MRC, there is already an examination of the use of UserGate products. Experts know how to best apply and configure UserGate solutions in organizations, and taking into account the IT infrastructure, which is completely different for everyone.

The second direction is SOC. As I said, this is primarily about ensuring your own security. We are doing everything to prevent attackers from successfully attacking us and our customers. We also plan to develop this area as a service (SOC-as-a-Service). Customers will receive high-level services. And at the same time, they will not have to spend tens of millions to create their SOC with dubious efficiency.

In addition, MRC plans to begin providing information security audit and consulting services to companies. This area includes assessing the security of the organization, consulting on the architecture of information systems from the point of view of information security, the use of UserGate information protection tools and others.

We also plan to provide DFIR (Digital Forensics & Incident Response-as-a-Service) services. Our specialists can qualitatively and promptly investigate information security incidents in companies, find out the details and reasons, and offer recommendations for correcting the situation, "added Dmitry Kuzevanov.

2024: Launch of SOC UserGate

On April 26, 2024, UserGate announced the start of its own information security monitoring center (SOC, Security Operations Center), which ensures the prompt detection of information security incidents, their localization and elimination before critical consequences for business. Its services became available in May 2024. Learn more here.