Before you is the modern Sherlock Holmes - the inventor of the original method of prevention and detection of criminal acts. He is richer than his literary colleague and does not work in London, but on the Internet.
Until recently, our compatriot met the term cybersecurity only in science fiction movies. In newspaper publications, he was presented as a phenomenon that exists only in the West. Today in our country there lives and works a person who has dedicated his life to this issue. The biography of our hero could have developed quite differently if he could realize his childhood dream and become "Uncle Stepa".
Childhood
Ilya was born in June 1986 in Moscow. His father was a physicist, his mother worked in the field of finance. The intelligent family of the Sachkovs lived in Izmailovo, and the child could spend a lot of time in local parks. Parents wanted their son to love books, but did not try to force him to read.
The boy's interest in knowledge arose during his school years. Of all the literary genres, he preferred detective. If a movie about investigators was broadcast on TV, then our hero could not be taken away from the screen. He was confident that when he grew up, he would become a great detective. The student had a chance to try his hand at a real search for a criminal when problems with a modem began in the computer science office. The boy was able to figure out the reason - it turned out that one of his peers was stealing traffic.
Unusual profession
After graduation, Ilya Sachkov tried to get a job in the police. The naive youth was refused. I had to listen to my father's advice and submit documents to the Moscow State Technical University. N. E. Bauman. By that time, the guy managed to get acquainted with the work of Kevin Mundia, who wrote about the investigation of cybercrimes. Ilya chose the Department of Information Security of the Faculty of Informatics and Control Systems.
The business was started in 2003. The student borrowed money from his brother, begged for a separate office from the management of the university, and opened there an agency to investigate crimes in the field of information technology Group-IB. In addition to Ilya himself, two more of his fellow students worked in an unusual company. It turned out that the services of detectives are in demand in Russia. The search for villains and the establishment of protection on clients' computers did not prevent the young man from getting an education. He graduated from the university with honors. An intelligent graduate was asked to give lectures to students even before graduation. Today he continues teaching.
Business
Soon, Sachkov's detective cyber agency became the leader in the domestic market for security services. An important stage in the career of our hero was the prevention of hacking of the Leta Group website in 2010. The contribution of our specialist to the fight against cybercrimes was recognized by the Digital Сrimes Consortium international conference award. Ilya became the first Russian among the laureates of this award. Success did not turn the head of the talented young man. He continued to work on improving hacker protection technologies.
Huge income and a good reputation demanded the expansion of the staff, made it possible to conduct a dialogue on an equal footing with colleagues abroad. In 2015, Europol invited Group-IB to cooperate. Two years later, an agreement on the exchange of information was signed with Interpol. Soon the list of foreign customers for the company's services and partners expanded. The founder of the agency began to go to meetings with them, discovered interesting prospects for the development of the business, and in 2019 opened an office in Singapore.
Personal life
Having become the owner of substantial capital, having visited the pages of Forbes, Ilya did not turn into a cold-blooded financial tycoon. He is a simpleton with a lot of prejudice and oddities. His childhood passion for sports led him to amateur Thai boxing. He also enjoys boxing and surfing. The young businessman is indifferent to luxury goods, but he has to create an image of a respectable character in front of clients. If Ilya thinks that he made a mistake in choosing any accessory, he feels out of place. This makes him periodically try on completely absurd outfits.
Sachkov had a wife, but at the moment the couple are divorced. Whether he liked being a husband and head of the family, whether he is going to tie the knot again, Ilya does not tell the press. In the summer, he volunteers to work as a counselor in children's recreation camps. Our hero says that communication with the younger generation helps him in business - he observes how the tastes and preferences of those who tomorrow will use the services of his company change.
Achievements
Ilya Sachkov did not succeed in becoming an employee of the law enforcement agencies in Russia. However, at the moment he has received a number of awards from the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A number of respected foreign publications gave Group-IB leading positions in the rating of the most reliable and promising detective agencies of our time. In 2016, the king of Thailand himself turned to Russian detectives for help.
The company's income and commercial success were also highly appreciated. Forbes magazine made Ilya Sachkov famous. In 2016, this entrepreneur was included in the rating of the most promising businessmen under 30 and the most successful in Russia. In 2019, our hero became a laureate of the "Big Business" National Award in the "Innovative Breakthrough" nomination. The award was presented to him by the President of the country Vladimir Putin.
