The Awake Story
Reimagining the possibilities—and power—of security.
They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
Awake was born out of a deep motivation to prove them wrong.
When the concept of a brain-like security solution—one that can think, sense, learn, and adapt—arose, it was a lofty idea that many believed would never work. But we had a vision of a cerebral network detection and response solution that could stay ahead of today’s complex cyber threats.
With the help of more than 200 enterprise security teams, our concept was developed, refined, tested, and perfected. Using analytics, AI, and machine learning in innovative ways, our solution can uncover behaviors and threats that are invisible to existing technologies.
Today, as part of Arista Networks, we’re doing what they said couldn’t be done.
Awake Security Explained
What if security could think? What if it could sense danger, calculate risk, and react quickly based on insight and evidence—just like the human brain?
With our advanced network detection and response solution, it can.
Meet Our People
Our team has deep expertise in cybersecurity, AI, machine learning, and network analytics. We’ve helped build category-defining products for some of the top and most innovative companies in the industry.

Rahul Kashyap
President & CEO
IntruVert (McAfee), Cylance
BITS Pilani

Rahul Kashyap
President & CEO
Rahul has a proven track record of establishing and building disruptive technologies. Prior to Awake, Rahul was the Global CTO at Cylance, a pioneer of AI-based security. He drove the vision and strategy that led to a major disruption of the endpoint security market. Before that, Rahul was EVP of products at Bromium, a leading endpoint virtualization-based security start-up. He was also a key leader at McAfee driving the advancement of the Network Intrusion Prevention technology. Rahul is a frequent keynote speaker, author of numerous security publications, and was named one of Silicon Valley’s 40 under 40. Rahul sits on multiple advisory boards including Cylance.

Keith Amidon
Co-Founder & Chief Architect
IntruVert (McAfee), Nicira (VMware)
University of Michigan

Keith Amidon
Co-Founder & Chief Architect
Keith has worked at the leading edge of networking and security for more than 25 years. Prior to co-founding Awake, he was director of engineering at VMware after its acquisition of Nicira Networks, where he helped design and build the first SDN-based network virtualization systems. Before that, he was co-founder of IntruVert Networks (acquired by McAfee), where he designed and implemented one of the first high-performance Network Intrusion Prevention Systems. Keith earned degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from the University of Michigan.

Rudolph Araujo
VP, Security Strategy, Business Development and Marketing
FireEye, Foundstone (McAfee)
Carnegie Mellon University

Rudolph Araujo
VP, Security Strategy, Business Development and Marketing
Rudolph leads Awake’s teams responsible for product and market strategy, alliances, messaging, demand generation, communications, and related activities. Prior to Awake, Rudolph ran the global product marketing team at FireEye. Previously, he helped lead the company’s Incident Response practice at FireEye Labs, where he worked with customers to help them respond to breaches. Before FireEye, Rudolph led security consulting teams at Foundstone and McAfee. He earned a degree in computer engineering from Goa University and a master’s from Carnegie Mellon University.

Jason Bevis
VP, Awake Labs
Foundstone (McAfee), FireEye-Mandiant
Carnegie Mellon University

Jason Bevis
VP, Awake Labs
As Vice President of Awake Labs, Jason is responsible for providing professional and managed services that support the mission and technology at Awake. Jason provides innovative customer focused solutions in the areas of incident response and managed network detection and response to help enable the platform across different industries and geographies. He is focused on quality delivery and promoting an excellent professional brand of services.
Jason is a strategic thinking individual, a problem solver, and a speaker with business acumen. He brings more than 20 years of security workforce experience from companies such as KPMG, Foundstone-McAfee, FireEye-Mandiant, and Cylance. He also serves on multiple boards as a technical security advisor.

Debabrata Dash
Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist
ArcSight (HP), CipherCloud
Carnegie Mellon University

Debabrata Dash
Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist
Dash brings core academic research capabilities and a wealth of experience building advanced security architecture to his role as Chief Data Scientist at Awake. Before co-founding Awake, he led the engineering team at CipherCloud and was a distinguished technologist in Hewlett-Packard’s enterprise security division. At HP, he was an early member of the ArcSight engineering team, where he built market-leading technologies in event correlation, event management, and real-time analytics. Dash earned a degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.

Gary Golomb
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
Cylance, NetWitness (RSA)
US Marine Corps

Gary Golomb
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
Gary has nearly two decades of experience in threat analysis and has led investigations and containment efforts in a number of notable cases. With this experience – and a track record of researching and teaching state-of-the art detection and response methodologies – Gary is focused on helping Awake improve security craft as the company’s Chief Research Officer. Prior to Awake, Gary was one of the first employees at Cylance. He was also a co-founder of Proventsure, which was acquired by NetWitness and ultimately by RSA. He served in the United States Marines 2nd Force Reconnaissance Company.

Rajdeep Wadhwa
VP, Product Management
SS8 Networks, McAfee
Iowa State University

Rajdeep Wadhwa
VP, Product Management
Rajdeep leads product management and strategy for Awake Security. He brings extensive experience in data protection, cyber security, networking, and data analytics. Prior to Awake, Rajdeep was VP product management at SS8 Networks where he was responsible for building SS8’s communication analytics products. Before SS8, Rajdeep was the global solutions architect for the cloud and content business unit at McAfee. There he was responsible for product strategy and sales execution for the data loss prevention (DLP) product line and played an integral role in introducing and expanding the DLP Business across APAC. Rajdeep joined McAfee through the acquisition of Reconnex Inc, where he developed technologies pertaining to deep content inspection, network forensics, and data analytics. Rajdeep holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University.

Jeffrey Wang
VP. Engineering
Cisco, Big Switch Networks
Simon Fraser University

Jeffrey Wang
VP. Engineering
Jeffrey is a seasoned engineering leader who has played an integral role in some of the networking industry’s most significant innovations and products. Jeffrey has held a variety of engineering leadership positions in the areas of networking software, data center compute infrastructure, network/visibility SDN fabrics, and predictive analytics. With a 15-year career at Cisco Systems, he was Vice President of Engineering in the Data Center Group with responsibilities ranging from Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) software to hypervisor switching and I/O technologies such as the Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) and the Nexus 1000v virtual switch software. Jeffrey was previously an engineering leader at Nuova Systems, a data center compute and networking startup acquired by Cisco that became the centerpiece of Cisco’s data center product portfolio.
Jeffrey spent 5+ years at Big Switch Networks, a pioneering startup in Software-defined and Cloud-first data center networking. He served as Vice President of Engineering responsible for overall engineering R&D and built two of the industry’s most reliable and innovative data center products: Big Cloud Fabric and Big Monitoring Fabric. The products and innovations have established Big Switch as a visionary vendor in Gartner Magic Quadrant with phenomenal revenue growth.
Most recently, Jeffrey was Vice President of Engineering at Veriflow Systems. He was responsible for overall engineering and product development, delivering the most advanced Intent-based networking and predictive analytics software products in the industry. Veriflow Systems was acquired by VMware.

Richard Clarke
Chairman & CEO at Good Harbor
White House Cybersecurity Czar

Malcolm Harkins
Chief Security & Trust Officer, Cymatic
Intel, Cylance, Cymatic
University of California, Davis

Malcolm Harkins
Chief Security & Trust Officer, Cymatic
Malcolm Harkins serves as the Chief Security and Trust Officer for Cymatic and member of the CISO Advisory Board for Awake Security. At Cymatic, he is responsible for enabling business growth through trusted infrastructure, systems, and business processes, focusing on all aspects of information risk, security and privacy.
Before Cymatic, he served as the Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cylance Inc and Vice President and Chief Security and Privacy Officer (CSPO) at Intel Corporation. Malcolm also held roles in Finance, Procurement, and various business operations. Malcolm earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California at Irvine and an MBA in finance and accounting from the University of California at Davis.

Elena Kvochko
Chief Trust Officer at SAP
Bank of America, Barclays
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