Atif Mushtaq is founder and CEO of SlashNext, the company pioneering a new, more effective way of protecting users from the growing problem of Web-based phishing. Atif has spent most of his career on the front lines of the war against cybercrime. Prior to founding SlashNext, Atif spent nine years at FireEye as a senior scientist, where he was one of the main architects of FireEye’s core malware detection technology.
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