Atul Dhablania, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, manages Engineering, Products and Operations teams at SonicWall. With over 25 years in data security and other high tech industries, he has been integral to SonicWall’s transformation from a firewall company to a cybersecurity solution company. Over the last 16 years at SonicWALL, Atul has architected and driven product portfolio development from firewalls to full end-to-end security platform solutions, including cloud and SaaS applications and visualization of network and threat data. Prior to joining SonicWall, Dhablania held management and engineering positions at AMD, Fujitsu/HaL Computer Systems, Cyrix, National Semiconductor, and LSI Logic.

Atul holds 11 patents in the fields of computer architecture, arithmetic, and system design, several of which define methods for formatting and processing denormalized floating point numbers. He’s also published numerous articles and is a contributor to several cyber security forums He holds a Masters of Business Administration, with Beta Gamma Sigma honors, from California State University, East Bay, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University and a B. Tech in Electrical and Communications Engineering from Delhi University (Gold Medalist).