[1] He is a former head of International Business Machines (IBM) Security Systems Division, chairman of Twistlock[2] and CEO of Q1 Labs.
[3] He is also an entrepreneur and an investor who focuses on security, cloud, and software as a service (SaaS) startups.
Hannigan was born in Ireland where he finished a BSc in Computer Science at the University College at Dublin in 1987.
In an interview, he said, "Our ideas are based on the simple realization that the perimeter protection paradigm that companies have relied on doesn't work in a world where the bad actors are so sophisticated.
Hannigan maintains that the business world is shifting from the traditional data center towards multiple cloud services.