Summary
Dimitris Tsapakidis is a veteran information security leader with 29 years’ experience and a deep focus on Data Loss Prevention, having built products and led professional services for Global 2000 customers across 25 countries. As Team Leader for Security Policy Content at Fortra, he combines hands-on development, product management and release engineering to deliver detection-as-code policy packs and automation tools—authoring 700 tested rules and 70+ knowledge-base articles. He has operational expertise across endpoints, cloud desktops, Microsoft 365, EDR/APT detection and data classification, and has driven safe adoption of Generative AI and collaboration platforms. A prolific practitioner who has lived and worked in multiple countries, he pairs enterprise deployment experience and ISO auditing credentials with a practical engineering background (Python, packaging, SQL, Cloudflare WAF rules) and a longtime enthusiasm for Bitcoin.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Information Security, MSc Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of London
BSc Mathematics and Computer Science, BSc Mathematics and Computer Science at Imperial College London
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Anatolia College