Strategic Advisor, Enterprise Security
Pavel Gurvich currently serves as Strategic Advisor to Akamai’s Enterprise Security business within Akamai’s larger Security Technology Group. He was previously Senior Vice President and General Manager, responsible for Akamai’s Zero Trust–focused enterprise security solutions, including Guardicore microsegmentation as well as Akamai Enterprise Application Access, Akamai Private Access, and Akamai MFA. He is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Gurvich joined Akamai in October 2021 as part of Akamai’s acquisition of Guardicore, where he was Co-Founder and CEO. In 2013, he co-founded Guardicore to protect enterprises from damage caused by breaches, like ransomware, while safeguarding critical assets at the heart of the network. Guardicore’s microsegmentation solution complements Akamai’s extensive Zero Trust security portfolio to provide comprehensive protections to enterprises, defending against threat actors and the spread of malware and ransomware.
He co-founded Guardicore after spending 12 years as a cybersecurity expert in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), where he started as a programmer and ended up managing 100 engineers at one of the IDF’s top R&D units. During his service, Gurvich was awarded the Israel Defense Prize by Israel’s President and Minister of Defense.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo.