Bio

Koroush Saraf is an accomplished product management leader with nearly 20 years of experience in the field of networking and network security. He started his career building silicon for networking and designed global satellite communication networks. This experience led him to be a co-founder of ConSentry Networks which ultimately revolutionalized network security by employing deep packet inspection processor technology for user and application identification. This later became known as category-defining next-generation firewalls. Later he built on this success by delivering security and access technologies in wireless and wired LAN, wireless WAN (3G, LTE/5G), and SD-WAN & SD-Branch. And most recently as part of the leadership team at Palo Alto Networks Koroush owns the SD-WAN and cloud-delivered security and connectivity and worked with Gartner to deliver products in a new category of Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Specialties: NGFW security, edge computing, LTE, 5G, 802.11 wireless and cloud-delivered connectivity and security (SASE)