Sundaram Lakshmanan

Chief Technology Officer

Sundaram brings more than 20 years of network and security product development experience to Lookout. As CTO and Head of Engineering for SASE products at Lookout, he is responsible for SASE cloud service, product vision and development. He joined Lookout through acquisition of CipherCloud, Inc. where he was the CTO and Head of Engineering and Product organizations. He joined CipherCloud through acquisition of Anicut Systems, the company he founded and lead as CEO to build Next-Gen Firewall-as-a-Service to help detect breaches with advanced ML. Prior to starting Anicut Systems, Sundaram was a Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. Before that, he was a Software Architect at Blue Coat Systems (now Broadcom) and there he architected and delivered Secure Web Gateway (SWG)-as-a-Service. He has a successful track record of delivering multiple innovative first-to-market and market-leading security products, as well as building global engineering teams. Sundaram holds multiple patents in the space. He received a MS from the National University of Singapore in CIS with specialization in networking and cryptography, as well as a BE in Electrical Engineering from Regional Engineering College (NIT) Trichy, India.

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Five Steps Towards Building a Better Data Security Strategy

A unified edge security platform can give you the visibility and control you need to create a modern and efficient architecture for protecting users, applications and data.

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How to Mitigate Risks When Your Data is Scattered Across Clouds

As you transition to the cloud, it’s critical to have security that is equipped to handle the risks. A unified cloud-delivered security platform is the best solution.

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How to Reduce Risk & Secure Data With Security Service Edge (SSE)

SSE is all about consolidating your security technology in the cloud, reducing complexity and enhancing data security so employees can access resources from anywhere.

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ZTNAs Address Requirements VPNs Cannot. Here’s Why.

As work from anywhere continues, it is important to rethink how to provide access for your entire organization in a secure manner.

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Lookout Announces Advanced Traffic Steering Agents to Replace VPNs

Replacing an overextended VPN can be complicated, but Lookout has simplified the process with our new Windows and macOS endpoint agents.

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A New Approach to Data Security for the New Year

Going into 2023, your organization should be laser-focused on identity and data, and the technologies that secure these elements will have to evolve.

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Securing Cloud Usage When Shadow IT is the Norm

By harnessing the many powers of converged security, SSE diminishes the worries of the unknown – regaining visibility and control with granular policies.

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Critical Capabilities of a Modern DLP

We discuss how modern DLP solutions, integrated in a cloud-delivered platform, can help organizations prevent data breaches while providing secure access to remote workers.

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Predictions 2022: Work-From-Anywhere Ends On-Premise Security

I believe that in 2022 we will see the beginning of the end of on-premises security tools, as isolated, point solutions running in data centers.

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Finding Patterns: User & Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA)

Instead of relying on static security checks or staring continuously at the static, you can use automated security to look at user behaviors.

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