After helping bring a Russian hacker to justice, Lyon's publicity allowed him to gain many new clients from outside of the gambling industry.

[16] Lyon was the CEO of his startup Netography,[17][18] until intrusion detection pioneer and creator of Snort, Martin Roesch was appointed in August 2022.

[19] Roesch as CEO and chair of the Board, Lyon as Chief Architect, and co-founder Dan Murphy as CTO, then raised $45M from Andreessen Horowitz and SYN Ventures.

[22] He provided details and helped coordinate with multinational law enforcement groups which resulted in the capture of Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov.

On October 8, 2007, Maksakov, Petrov, Stenanov were found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison in the Russian Federation with a 100,000 ruble penalty.

[25] After leaving Prolexic, Lyon co-founded of BitGravity, a content delivery network and served as its chief technology officer.

XDN's first products provide businesses with greater control over existing content delivery networks by allowing them to use CDN's based on factors like price and service.

[citation needed] Recently he announced a new venture Netography and currently serves as Chief Architect,[38] with seed funding from Andreesson Horowitz and Mango Capital.