Speaker Bio
Leonid Burakovsky currently serves as a VP of Product Management at Palo Alto Networks and pioneered a new line of products to strengthen 4G and 5G security.
Leonid is a co-inventor and an author of 101 granted 5G/4G security patents and 48 pending patents.
Leonid initiated and led the creation of the new GSMA permanent security reference document, FS.37. This document provides recommendations for Communication Service Providers to detect and prevent attacks and security threats against mobile networks, services, and applications.
He also contributed to the Open RAN Policy Coalition "Open RAN security in 5G" WP and now is contributing to Communications Security, Reliability and interoperability Council (CSRIC) Working Group 3 Preparing for 6G Security and Reliability.
Prior to this role, Leonid served as F5 Networks' Senior Director of Service Provider Solutions and Juniper Networks' Strategic Alliances CTO.
Leonid regularly speaks at industry events and forums such as GSMA Mobile World Congress, NGMN, IEEE, CTIA, Futurecom, BroadbandForum, 4G, LTE events, Intel’s Network Builders, to name a few.
Leonid has more than 30 years of industry experience and holds both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Information Systems Engineering.