December 17, 2009 Press Release
Baltimore, MD – Baltimore-based Lookingglass Cyber Solutions - the leading provider of global cyber situational awareness products - announced today the addition of Homeland Security expert Richard Gordon, Managing Director of Civitas Group LLC, to the company’s Board of Advisors. As an advisor, Rick will lend his blended knowledge of the homeland security landscape and his expertise in business strategy to Lookingglass as it prepares to expand its customer base.
“Rick’s involvement complements Lookingglass’ strategy to deliver industry leading cyber situational awareness products to federal security agencies and commercial critical infrastructure markets,” said Derek Gabbard, chief executive officer of Lookingglass. “Rick’s experience and expertise makes him a perfect fit as Lookingglass becomes a thought leader in the cyber security space.”
Rick Gordon is the Managing Director of Civitas Group LLC a strategic advisory firm focused on federal and commercial homeland and national security environments. He has managed several large company accounts and developed a comprehensive investment strategy for the homeland security market. Prior to Civitas he served as CEO of Tovaris, a specialized encryption software development company. Mr. Gordon was also a technology investment banker at Bear, Stearns & Co., serving many emerging technology companies and participating in several technology initial public offerings. Mr. Gordon has served as a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy. He received his MBA from The Darden School at the University of Virginia and his BS in Engineering with Merit from the U.S. Naval Academy.
“I look forward to working with Lookingglass and learning more about their software and business model as they position themselves for growth,” Rick said. “Lookingglass is certainly in the midst of exciting times in an exciting market with the importance and urgency of cyber security growing every day.”
In early 2009, Lookingglass signed the NASA SEWP IV contract, a seven year Government-Wide Acquisition Contract, with Sword & Shield Enterprise Security, Inc. that would make ScoutVision™ available to all government agencies. Later in 2009, Lookingglass signed a second contract with Department of Homeland Security to provide data and analytics tools in support of the National Communications System. Most recently, Lookingglass signed annual software sales contracts with Sandia National Labs and Northrop Grumman deploying ScoutVision™ to provide Internet intelligence and enterprise cyber situational awareness.
About Lookingglass (www.LGScout.com)
Lookingglass delivers the industry’s first Global Cyber Situational Awareness Internet-to-Enterprise network intelligence platform, offering a real-time virtual, physical and contextual view of the global Internet extending into the enterprise. Their solutions support a wide range of government and commercial applications, including critical infrastructure protection and network security, all empowering cyber intelligence professionals to gain insight into potential cyber threats and thwart attacks.
Lookingglass’ core product, ScoutVision™, helps emergency responders predict and monitor impacts to the Internet and critical communications infrastructure during physical terror attacks, natural disasters, and other destructive catastrophes. ScoutVision’s™, award-winning analysis, correlation and ‘galactic’ visual presentation provide a view of Internet infrastructure, activity and connections never before available. Lookingglass was founded in 2006 and is based in Baltimore, MD.
