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Baltimore, MD-based Lookingglass Cyber Solutions has Appointed Allan Thomson as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
Lookingglass is a pioneer delivering over-the-horizon (OTH) cyber visibility through a revolutionary Cyber Threat Intelligence Monitoring and Management platform. The Lookingglass product suite offers innovative solutions that deliver deep visibility into the Internet threat landscape. Lookingglass’ flagship products, ScoutVision and CloudScout, contextualize global cyber intelligence, enabling users to efficiently identify emerging threats within the context of their enterprises. These solutions offer alert and warning capabilities that empower customers to continuously monitor for over-the-horizon threats from outside a client’s network and control, such as the presence of botnets, hosts associated with cyber criminal networks, unexpected route changes and the loss of network resiliency. Lookingglass’ outside-in approach accounts for a client’s entire enterprise cyber ecosystem including the extended enterprise, and other networks beyond their control. This cyber situational awareness and oversight ensures business partners or service providers are not the proximate cause of security breaches or data loss.
About the Person
As Lookingglass CTO, Allan Thomson brings more than three decades of experience in technology areas such as networking and distributed IT. Lookingglass will draw on Thomson’s leadership skills in software development and architecture to further enhance product and intelligence delivery capabilities, as well as to provide technical direction for the company’s Global Threat Intelligence Platform and future product lines. Prior to Lookingglass, Thomson most recently served as Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc., where he led the software architecture and design of the company’s Cyber Threat Defense System and Platform Exchange Grid. He was responsible for overall systems management and security telemetry collection/aggregation, as well as distributed threat analysis/intelligence services in multi-tenant public and private cloud deployments. Prior to joining Cisco, he oversaw the technology growth initiatives of several start-up companies, including Airespace, where he was a Software Architect responsible for the design, development and network management/location tracking of the company’s wireless local area network (WLAN) system. Airespace was acquired in 2005 by Cisco, and Thomson joined Cisco following the acquisition. Among many honors, Thomson distinguished himself as a key contributor to Cisco’s Location Server, winning a ""Best Enterprise Product"" award at the ""Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards"". Trapeze Networks' ""RingMaster/Mobility Systems"" product, which he was the key architect for, won the ""Editor’s Choice Award"" from ""Communications News"", as well as the ""Best in Show"" from ""CMP"". As a member in a number of industry-standards organizations – such as the WiFi Alliance, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE 802.11WG), the Trusted Computer Group (TCG TNC), and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - he led the charge for the cohesive adoption of new technologies. He has earned over 20 U.S. patents for a broad set of technologies. Among other degrees and professional certifications, Thomson holds an honors (master’s-level) degree in computing science from the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
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