Derek Manky

Derek Manky

Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs

Chief Security Strategist & Global VP Threat Intelligence, Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs

Derek Manky is chief security strategist and global vice president of threat intelligence at FortiGuard Labs. Derek formulates security strategy with more than 15 years of cyber security experience behind him. His ultimate goal to make a positive impact in the global war on cybercrime. He provides thought leadership to industry, and has presented research and strategy worldwide at premier security conferences. As a cybersecurity expert, his work includes meetings with leading political figures and key policy stakeholders, including law enforcement. He is actively involved with several global threat intelligence initiatives including NATO NICP, INTERPOL Expert Working Group, the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) working committee and FIRST – all in effort to shape the future of actionable threat intelligence and proactive security strategy.

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule on launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on November 09 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Today’s columnist, Derek Manky of FortiGuard Labs, writes about how companies that depend on the satellite networks established by innovators like SpaceX will become targets for the next generation of hack...

Threat Management

Space: The new cybersecurity frontier

Derek MankyDecember 30, 2021

Companies looking to deploy satellite-based connectivity must educate their teams on the security risks.

Major security events last year like the SolarWinds hack brought out the need for counterintelligence. Today’s columnist, Derek Manky of FortiGuard Labs, writes about the need for security teams to deploy deception technologies to guard against emerging threats.

Threat Management

What 2020 taught us about the need for deception technology

Derek MankyMarch 17, 2021

Major security events last year like the SolarWinds hack brought out the need for counterintelligence. Today’s columnist, Derek Manky of FortiGuard Labs, writes about the need for security teams to deploy deception technologies to guard against emerging threats.

Content

Deliver More Effective Threat Intelligence with Federated Machine Learning

Derek MankyJune 24, 2020

Content

Ten Best Practices for Outsmarting Ransomware

Derek MankyMay 29, 2018

Content

The Ransom of Commercial Cloud Services is Big Business

Derek MankyJanuary 23, 2018

2011 SC Social Media Awards: Finalists named

Application security

Protecting the network from inside the firewall

Derek MankyJanuary 20, 2011

Today's security appliances do a great job patrolling the network perimeter, but what do you do when the threat is coming from inside the building?

Application security

Ten years of evolving threats: A look back at the impact of notable malicious wares of the past decade

Derek MankyNovember 15, 2010

As security firm Fortinet celebrates 10 years in business, Fortiguard Labs took a look at the 10 most intriguing threats during the past decade and showed how their feature sets have evolved, Darwin-like, over time.