Bio

Dr. Hugh Thompson '98, '99 M.S., '02 Ph.D. has more than a decade of experience creating methodologies that help organizations build demonstrably more secure systems. He joined Blue Coat in 2012 and was named CTO of Symantec after the acquisition of Blue Coat in August 2016. Thompson has co-authored three books, written more than 80 academic and industrial publications on security, and been interviewed by top news organizations including the BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Financial Times, Washington Post, and others. In 2006, Thompson was named one of the “Top 5 Most Influential Thinkers in IT Security” by SC Magazine and has, for the past several years, served as the program committee chairman for the RSA Conference, guiding the technical content of the world’s largest information security gathering. He also sits on the editorial board of IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine and is an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York. Thompson holds a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Florida Institute of Technology.