Ruslan Mikhalov

Ruslan Mikhalov is the Chief of Threat Research & Co-Founder at SOC Prime. Ruslan has also served as the VP of Threat Research and Professional Services, and Co-Founder at SOC Prime. Prior to that, they were the Head of Managed Services & Security Analytics at X Systems LLC, where they were responsible for auditing and tunning SIEM installations, maintaining multiple SIEM HP ArcSight instances, building SIEM analytical content, building custom complex SIEM reports, and building SIEM Flex Connectors. Ruslan has also served as the IT Security Manager and SIEM Analyst at SVIT IT Ltd., where they were responsible for SIEM systems implementation and technical support, SIEM use cases development and implementation, threat intelligence, and endpoint security. Ruslan has also worked as a scientific employee at a scientific research institute for 5 years and as an IT security consultant and IT administrator at Avionika Service ltd for 2 years.

Ruslan Mikhalov has a Bachelor's degree from the National Technical University of Ukraine «Kyiv Polytechnic Institute». Ruslan also has various technical certifications from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lumension, and Intel Security.