Yuan Karppanen

Founder of UNpkl and Product Manager - Azure Active Directory at Microsoft

Yuan Karppanen is a product leader and CEO. She has years of experience in end-to-end Access and Security product management, from defining product features, to marketing strategy, and go-to-market execution. Prior to her entrepreneurial undertaking, she has extensive experience as a product lead in large technology companies. In addition to her product management experience, she helped companies become successful in their product strategies and international businesses across China, Europe and the US. Her passion for technology, language and culture keep her focused on using the latest innovations to serve people and businesses around the world.

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    Day18 Oct 26 2021

    Founder Talk / Story
    Airmeet

    UNpkl is addressing two major challenges customers are urgently facing today: increased and more sophisticated cyber attacks and uncontrollable data privacy. More and more organizations are experiencing a spike in the volume of attacks during the pandemic and remote workers are at risk without central IT protection. IT departments are scrambling to protect their employees in the new norm of remote working and learning. Study also shows that due to economic challenges caused by the pandemic, fewer organizations expect to increase human resources dedicated to cybersecurity. These new trends which emerged during the pandemic and are likely to last post pandemic call for new ways and new tools to protect company assets and employees from cyber attacks. UNpkl solution detects cyber threat real-time, arms users of all profiles with the right tool to protect themselves and puts security on auto-pilot. Network data privacy has always been a long-standing controversy without effective solutions. Customers' personal data goes to various web services and customers have no control, nor understanding of where their data is being sent to. UNpkl provides visibility into customers' network and shows exactly where their data is being sent to. With UNpkl insight and analytics, customers have 100% understanding of their network usage, controls where their data goes and can customize their usage report to understand what matters the most for their businesses.