CLOUDFLARE
HARNISH KANANI TITLE : CHIEF CUSTOMER OFFICER COMPANY : CLOUDFLARE for everyone . There is no question that the Internet is the lifeblood of every business . We use the Internet for collaboration . We use the Internet for commerce , and we use the Internet for communication . The Internet was brilliantly architected , no doubt about it . However , it wasn ' t architected for today ' s performance , security , and reliability considerations ”.
Kanani says that for decades there were many hardware vendors who designed hardware boxes that were meant to alleviate the problems that the Internet had around performance , security , and reliability . These hardware boxes could be put on-premise situations , behind firewalls , or in data centres , and were in theory meant to alleviate the problems of the Internet . Until ‘ the cloud ’, when companies suddenly began to move security and work processes to the Internet . “ As that began to happen , more attacks began to happen , and things began to get more complex ”.
EXECUTIVE BIO
Harnish Kanani is Cloudflare ’ s
Chief Customer Officer . Cloudflare runs one of the world ’ s largest networks which provides security , performance , and reliability to Internet applications , including websites and APIs to corporate networks and remote teams . Today Cloudflare has more than four million customers , including 17 % of the Fortune 1000 .
Harnish has spent his career working with enterprise customers large and small and within networking and security . He joined Cloudflare after working with Palo Alto Networks , RedLock Security , and CipherCloud , overseeing post-sales and customer success , and with Ernst & Young and Tata Consultancy Services as a management consultant .