Who We Are

Meet the team at ThreatDefence.

Our Story

ThreatDefence is an Australian company founded in 2014 in Sydney by a small group of security practitioners – security incident responders and threat hunters. From our hands-on experience, we learned that only very few businesses notice security events in their network, and even fewer can proactively action on them.

We observed organizations getting breached, with attackers living on their networks for months and sometimes years. We also seen cyber security investigations drag on for days and even weeks, as incident responders could not get use of their security event data, and struggled to manually correlate security events collected from endpoints, network systems and cloud service providers.

That’s how ThreatDefence was born. Our SecOps Platform was created to help companies of any size to deploy world-class Security Operations, and contain threats with deep visibility and structured evidence.

Our Customers

Our platform has been deployed globally, serving hundreds of customers across various industries, including service providers, healthcare, digital services, government, finance, legal, retail, and mining. In 2023, we continue to expand our reach and support more organizations worldwide.

Our Mission

Our mission is to provide every business with complete access to their security data, making security detection and response affordable and reducing the time it takes to implement security operations capabilities from months to minutes.

Our Team

Our core team is composed of highly skilled engineers, data scientists and engineers who work closely together. Our team members possess a wealth of experience in machine learning, threat detection and incident response.

Freddy Sharkawy

Lead Developer
Freddy is the Lead Developer, responsible for overseeing the development of products and ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality and performance. With extensive experience in software development and a passion for technology, Freddy constantly pushes the boundaries of what the products can achieve, driving innovation and excellence within the team.

Suraj Dangi

SecOps Manager
Suraj is our SecOps Manager, responsible for our 24×7 security operations, threat hunting and incident response. With his extensive expertise in security operations and his dedication to keeping our customers secure, Suraj ensures that our team is always vigilant and able to effectively counter any threats in our customers’ environments.

Zlatko Hristov

Chief Executive Officer
Zlatko is ThreatDefence’s main technologist, responsible for keeping our product at the forefront of innovative and cutting-edge technology. He is a highly experienced cyber security practitioner with 25 years of experience in protecting global organizations from cyber threats.

Anton Guzhevskiy

Chief Operating Officer
Anton has 20+ years of Information security experience, a jack of all trades well versed in security product management, security operations, go-to-market and product marketing, digital growth and innovation.

Nick Theo

Chief Technology Officer
Nick is an exceptional technologist with a deep understanding of cloud-native technologies and cybersecurity engineering. He is responsible for driving our growth from a technology perspective and mentoring his team to build and manage a highly scalable, reliable, and secure platform.

Vlad Smorodinov

Integration Team Lead
Vlad is responsible for our platform integrations, ensuring that all our clients’ systems work seamlessly with our products, maximizing the value of our solutions for our clients. He is proficient in system architecture, cloud technology, and API management.

Choco Luo

Senior Developer
Choco is a Senior Developer at ThreatDefence, leading all frontend engineering and user interface design. Choco is responsible for the architecture, performance, and usability of the platform’s web applications, ensuring a clean, intuitive experience across dashboards, workflows, and customer-facing features.

Roche Zlang

Senior Security Analyst
Roche Zhang is a Senior Security Analyst at ThreatDefence, supporting 24×7 security monitoring, alert triage, threat investigation and incident response. He works closely with customers to identify suspicious activity, validate security events, and provide clear, evidence-based recommendations to reduce cyber risk.

Mohammad Waqas

Lead Security Analyst
Mohammad Waqas is a Lead Security Analyst at ThreatDefence, overseeing security monitoring, threat investigation and incident response activities across customer environments. He supports the SOC team with alert validation, escalation management and evidence-based analysis to help customers detect, understand and respond to cyber threats effectively.

Chris Atchison

Development Team Lead
Chris Atchison is the Development Team Lead at ThreatDefence, responsible for guiding the development of ThreatDefence’s security operations platform and supporting technology. He works closely with the SOC and engineering teams to improve platform capability, integrations, automation and customer-facing features.