Dmitri Alperovitch is VP of Threat Research at McAfee. He leads the company's research in Internet threat intelligence analysis, focusing on mail, web, malware and other network threats. Mr. Alperovitch is a leading inventor of numerous patent-pending technologies, including company's industry-leading in-the-cloud reputation service, TrustedSource. With more than 10 years of experience in the field of information security, he has accomplished extensive research in the areas of reputation systems, spam detection, public-key and identity-based cryptography, as well as network intrusion detection and prevention. Mr. Alperovitch has significant experience working as a subject-matter expert with all levels of U.S. and International law enforcement on analysis, investigations and profiling of transnational organized criminal activities. In addition, he is a recognized authority on online organized criminal activity and cyber security, and has been quoted in numerous articles, including those by Associated Press, Business Week, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Washington Post. He has been a featured speaker and panelist at numerous law-enforcement, industry and academic security conferences. Mr. Alperovitch holds a Master of Science in Information Security and a Bachelor of Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.