17 Facts About Dmitri Alperovitch

Dmitri Alperovitch is an American think-tank founder, author, philanthropist, podcast host and former computer security industry executive.

Dmitri Alperovitch is the chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, a geopolitics think-tank in Washington, DC, and a co-founder and former chief technology officer of CrowdStrike.

Dmitri Alperovitch earned a BS in computer science in 2001, and a MS in information security in 2003, both from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dmitri Alperovitch worked at a number of computer security startups in the late 1990s and early 2000s, including e-mail security startup CipherTrust, where he was one of the leading inventors of the TrustedSource reputation system.

Dmitri Alperovitch took over as vice president of threat research at McAfee, when the company acquired Secure Computing in 2008.

In late 2011, along with entrepreneur George Kurtz and Gregg Marston, Dmitri Alperovitch co-founded and became the chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, a security technology company focused on helping enterprises and governments protect their intellectual property and secrets against cyberespionage and cybercrime.

In February 2020, Dmitri Alperovitch left CrowdStrike to launch the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a nonprofit focused on solving policy challenges connected to great power competition between the US and its adversaries.

In December 2021, Dmitri Alperovitch correctly predicted the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022.

In December 2024, along with Cold War historian Sergey Radchenko, Dmitri Alperovitch proposed that the incoming Trump administration try to pry North Korea away from the emerging Russia-China-Iran axis and attempt to negotiate a peace deal that does not demand full denuclearization but instead prioritizes nonproliferation, moratorium on nuclear tests, end to provocative missile launches and termination of cyber attacks against the West.

Dmitri Alperovitch is an inaugural member of the Cyber Safety Review Board, an independent US government board set up by Presidential Executive Order in 2021 with responsibility for cybersecurity incident investigations.

Dmitri Alperovitch has served as a Special Advisor to the Department of Defense.

Dmitri Alperovitch is the chairman of the board of directors of Automox, a cloud-based IT operations company, a board member of Dragos, a company that provides cybersecurity solutions for industrial controls systems, and a board observer for Sublime Security, an email security company.

In October 2021, Alperovitch announced the launch of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies to be based at the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

Dmitri Alperovitch is an occasional guest on the Risky Business IT Security podcast to provide his insights into the field and geopolitics.

Dmitri Alperovitch is an author, along with Garrett Graff, of the book: World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century.

Dmitri Alperovitch was awarded the Outstanding American by Choice Award by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2023 and the Federal 100 Award for his contributions to the US federal information security and was recognized in 2013 and 2015 as one of Washingtonian's Tech Titans for his accomplishments in the field of cybersecurity.

Dmitri Alperovitch was named in December 2013 as one of Foreign Policy's Top 100 Leading Global Thinkers.