Ian Farquhar

Information security technologies and practices have been the cornerstone of Ian’s career for 35 years. Starting in academia, where he implemented and manage a major university’s first connection to the Internet in the late 80s, Ian has been at the leading edge of security in enterprise, government and service providers. He has worked for companies including RSA, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics and Cray Research. Ian has consulted and evaluated security architecture in major international banks and national telcos, as well as contributed to standards, including being involved in some of the very early R&D around wireless networking. At Gigamon he is responsible for mapping the company’s strategic planning to the needs of government and high-exposure customers, including a very strong focus on zero trust architectures, notably with the US Government. Ian also leads Gigamon’s Product Security and Incident Response Team, ensuring Gigamon’s compliance with the myriad of security requirements our customers demand.

Ian Farquhar
Security Chief Technology Officer
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    Gigamon