Vlad Korsunsky

Chief Technology Officer, Tenable | Ex-Microsoft

Israel

About

Currently serving as Chief Technology Officer at Tenable, with over 25 years of experience in technology leadership, research and development, and artificial intelligence. Responsible for overseeing global technology strategy, managing the Tenable Israel R&D Center, and leading Tenable Research. Skilled in fostering innovation, empowering teams, and delivering solutions that address complex challenges in cybersecurity and beyond. Formerly held senior leadership roles at Microsoft, contributing to cloud and enterprise security, artificial intelligence, and exposure management products. Committed to creating a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and customer-centric excellence to drive impactful outcomes and build resilient technologies.

Experience

  • Chief Technology Officer at Tenable
    Jan 2026 - Present · 7 mos

    🔹Global Chief Technology Officer, Tenable 🔹Managing Director, Tenable Israel R&D Center 🔹Head of Tenable Research

  • Microsoft (11 yrs 2 mos)
    • Corporate Vice President
      Sep 2024 - Nov 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Working on Cloud Security, protecting AI workloads and AI Agents, and Exposure Management products in Microsoft.

    • Vice President, Cloud and Enterprise Security
      Sep 2022 - Aug 2024 · 2 yrs

      Leading a global product and engineering organization for Cloud and Enterprise Security products in Microsoft. Our mission is to empower customers to protect their assets and manage exposure, by identifying, mitigating, and neutralizing security risk.

    • Partner, General Manager, Cloud Security
      Sep 2019 - Aug 2022 · 3 yrs

      Leading an engineering organization of super talented engineers, security researchers, applied data scientists, building Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel, to securely empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

  • Director of Engineering, Cyber Security at Israel Defense Forces
    2012 - Sep 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    • Founder of an interdisciplinary cyber engineering department delivering software and cyber security products. • Establishing development life cycles and agile R&D methodologies. • Leading complex organization-wide projects on strict deadlines in a dynamic environment. • Strategic multi-year cross business units planning. • Managing a department of 100 engineers and cyber security experts.

  • Senior Advisor at Israel National Cyber Bureau (INCB)
    2012 - 2014 · 2 yrs

    • Working on Israel's national cyber security strategy. • Team member in complex forensics investigations.

  • Israel Defense Forces (7 yrs 10 mos)
    • Group Manager
      Jan 2009 - Oct 2011 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      • Managing several teams of cyber security researchers and software developers working on cross-platform products (Windows, Linux and embedded).

    • Team Lead, Project Manager - Security product R&D
      2004 - 2009 · 5 yrs

      • Leading a team of software developers and cyber security researchers. • Designing and managing the development of mission-critical low-level and high-level software solutions, tightly integrated with cyber security and networking. • Project management and coordination of all involved parties (end-users, developers, IT, operations, senior management, etc). • Hands-on security researcher and software developer (C, C++, Assembly, Python, Java). • Hands-on expertise in enterprise security and networks. • Deep understanding of underlying infrastructure - IT, Network, Dev.