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About the Author

Prakash Mana, CEO, Cloudbrink. Prakash brings over 25 years of experience
across the cloud, networking, security and infrastructure markets in building and
delivering market-defining networking and security products. As co-founder and
CEO of Cloudbrink, Prakash combines his business acumen and in-depth
technical expertise to lead this powerful innovation to the market.
Previously, Prakash was CPO and CTO at Pulse Secure. In that role, he was
responsible for delivering the company’s vision, defining strategy and roadmap,
and operationalizing different go-to-market motions. Prior to that, Prakash was
responsible for Citrix’s NetScaler security gateway business. He holds a BE and MS in electrical
engineering and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon.

Cloudbrink provides hybrid access as a service (HAaaS) for secure, high-performance access to SaaS,
cloud and private cloud applications. The software-only zero-trust access solution includes firewall as-a-
service, which takes granular security controls all the way to the user edge for comprehensive protection
of users and endpoint devices. Cloudbrink uses AI/ML and a global network of virtual PoPs to overcome
network reliability issues and provide ultra-low-latency connectivity. The company claims its service
improves the performance of applications over unreliable internet connections by 30x or more even when
fully secured.

Prakash can be reached online on his LinkedIn and via the company website at https://cloudbrink.com/

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