Abhishek Karnik

Director for Threat Research and Response

Abhishek Karnik is the Director for Threat Research and Response for McAfee and leads a global team of experts on cybersecurity threats and intelligence with a focus on providing protection content to McAfee products. His team is responsible for Exploit Prevention, Joint Threat Intelligence, AV Protection, URL protection & related response. Together they manage the Threat Landscape across multiple endpoint and cloud products. Abhishek’s passion to keep our customer safe and his contribution to law enforcement efforts have earned him the Intel Achievement Award and the Peter Szor award for his work in fighting cybercrime.