Yasir Khalid

Yasir Khalid

Yasir Khalid is CEO of StrikeReady. Before starting StrikeReady, Yasir was Head of threat research and intelligence at BlueHexagon, a Silicon Valley startup focused on protecting against network threats using deep learning. At BlueHexagon, he built the threat research team and set the vision and direction for the core detection technology in the product. Prior to joining Blue Hexagon, Yasir spent 10 years at FireEye where he architected some of the core threat detection technologies of FireEye including MVX engine and second generation of network threat detection products. This work has lead to the filing of more than 15 patents on various aspects of FireEye’s core technologies.