Igor Hula
Principal Product Manager
Education?
Master's degree, study program: Software Engineering
Position and history at ESET?
Leading Principal Product Manager for ESET PROTECT Platform (2023 - present)
Senior Product Manager, Business Security at ESET (2017 - 2023)
- 2019 - 2023: Flagship business products - management consoles for Endpoint Security: ESET PROTECT and ESET PROTECT Cloud
- 2017 - 2019: Cloud security for Office 365, Mail Security for MS Exchange and IBM Lotus Domino
Competitive Intelligence Specialist (2016 - 2017)
Highlights of your career?
Former PM for ESET Cloud Office Security, ESET's first solution for protecting cloud SaaS
As a product manager, delivered significant functionality in the ESET PROTECT platform such as Vulnerability Assessment and Patch Management, and shifting the platform from native XDR to Open XDR
Currently strategically shaping the ESET PROTECT Platform alongside the CPO. Leading several important initiatives, including the Gartner demo for the Magic Quadrant
What malware do you hate the most?
Infostealers and phishing - anything that violates privacy and tries to steal data for any reason
What is your golden rule for cyberspace?
Protect more (thanks to extended visibility), manage less (thanks to correlation and automation)
The best incident is the one that never happens, so prevention first!
Favorite activities:
Information technologies, IT security, innovation in IT (smart applications), logical puzzles, mathematics, psychology, traveling, hiking, sport
When did you get your first computer and what kind was it?
At the age of 6 I got a 486, and I was curious not about the games, but about tweaking the system
Favorite computer game / activity?
My favorite activity is tweaking things to work better, faster and more reliably, and having intelligent shortcuts
