As LookingGlass Chief Technology Officer, Allan Thomson has significant experience across network, security and distributed systems technologies. Thomson leads technical strategy, architecture and product development across all LookingGlass Threat Defense product lines including Threat Intelligence Platforms and Threat Mitigation platforms. Prior to LookingGlass, Thomson 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.