Deepen Desai

Senior Director, Security Research, Zscaler, Inc.

Deepen Desai is responsible for running the security research operations at Zscaler ThreatLabZ. Deepen has been actively involved in the field of Threat Research and Analysis from past 12 years and has strong affiliations with various security working groups. He is passionate about finding and reverse engineering new malware payloads to neutralize the threat with effective countermeasures. Prior to joining Zscaler, he was a Senior Threat Research manager at Dell SonicWALL. Deepen holds a Master's of Science in Computer Engineering from the San Jose State University. He is an avid Volleyball and Badminton player.

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...