Ian Farquhar

Ian has consulted, implemented and done R&D in cybersecurity for over 30 years. He started his career at Macquarie University, deploying the initial security infrastructure for the campus, then moving into research and development which included some of the seminal development in mobile networking and security. He then went into roles at Silicon Graphics/Cray Research, Sun MicroSystems, Cisco and RSA. At Gigamon Ian is the Security Chief Technology Officer, responsible for security architecture; zero trust; cryptography and SSL/TLS; and risk management in enterprise, service provider and government networks. Ian is on Gigamon's PSIRT team and has contributed to the design of multiple Gigamon products.