Executive Team

Panoptic Security was founded, and is managed, by some of the industry's leading security professionals.

Tim Cranny, CEO

Tim Cranny, PhD - CEO

  • Summary: 10+ years experience in IT security and risk assessment
  • Areas of professional focus: market- and technology-analysis of the security space, security architecture, security methodologies, and security engineering. Research-level expert in expert systems, and emergent computation
  • Professional Experience: Senforce Technologies, 90East (Australia), Charles Sturt University (Complexity Theory and Emergent Computation), Australian National University (Centre for Mathematics and its Applications)
  • Education: Bachelor's Degree with First Class (mathematics and physics), a University Medal, and a PhD in pure mathematics (obtained at age 24). CISSP
Jim Kilgour, COO

Jim Kilgour - COO

  • Summary: 25+ years business and operational experience in software market, including security software
  • Areas of professional focus: sales, marketing, services, management, and operations
  • Professional Experience:

    Senforce Technologies, LANDesk, GroupLink, Novell, IBM and owned his own management consulting business
  • Education: BS in Government and Politics, University of Maryland at College Park, with minors in Russian and Mathematics
Michael Wright, CTO

Michael Wright - CTO

  • Summary: 7+ years computer security experience and 20+ years software development
  • Areas of professional focus: market- and technology-analysis of the security space, development of firewalls, wireless security management, and network application control products; implementing network protocols and hardware device drivers; secretary of the IEEE 802.1 working group, participating in the LAN/MAN network infrastructure and security standards group since 1993
  • Professional Accomplishments: Co-inventor of four patents in software security and networking
  • Professional Experience: Senforce (Founder), Unisys, 3Com, and US Robotics
  • Education: MA of Computer Science from Colorado State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio. CISSP

Peter Boucher - Senior Architect and Engineer

  • Summary: 20+ years experience in computer security research and development
  • Areas of professional focus: cryptography, high-assurance trusted operating systems, trusted DBMS, evaluation of trusted systems, and export regulations compliance (certification/accreditation) and secure network protocols
  • Professional Experience: Senforce, Novell, SRI International, Arca Systems, and Gemini Computers
  • Education: BA in Computer Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz