Articles by Tony Haywood

Haywood gained extensive experience during his time with Microsoft and NetManage before joining Internet Security System (ISS). Leaving ISS in 2002, Haywood founded his first network security company Blade Software, pioneering the development of the ground breaking “stack-less” network security assessment and auditing technology. It was this technology that became the foundation for the companys’ IDS and Firewall Informer products. In 2004, Haywood founded his second network security company “Karalon”. It was during this time that Haywood developed a new network based security auditing and assessment technology with the aim of providing a system and methodology for auditing the capabilities of network based security devices, with the ability to apply “security rules” to fine-tune intrusion detection and prevention systems. In 2009, Haywood joined forces with Idappcom Ltd. Haywood is currently the Chief technology Officer for the company and is guiding its future development of advanced network based security auditing and testing technologies as well as assisting organizations to achieve the highest levels of network threat detection and mitigation.