Unicorns 204/229 – Lookout

Unicorns 204/229 – Lookout


Lookout

Founder
and Executive Chairman, Kevin Mahaffey (Co-Founder & CTO), Aaron Cockerill (VP of Product), Dan Doveralba, & lt; RTI ID = 0.0 & gt; (Principal Quality Engineer) and Michael McBride (Vice President, WW Sales)
Employees: 251 – 500

Lookout is a cybersecurity company that predicts and stops mobile attacks before harm is done to an individual or an enterprise. Lookout’s cloud-based technology is fueled by a global sensor network of more than 60 million users and tens of thousands of apps that are added daily . With this dataset of virtually all the mobile code in the world and the predictive machine intelligence to analyze and make sense of the data, Lookout can identify connections that would otherwise otherwise unseen and stop cybercriminals from attacking mobile devices.

The world’s leading mobile network operators, including AT & T, Deutsche Telekom, EE, KDDI, Orange, Sprint and T-Mobile, have selected Lookout as its preferred mobile security solution. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lookout has offices in Boston, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, DC

In 2004, Lookout founders John Hering, Kevin Mahaffey, and James Burgess made a security vulnerability. Bluetooth signals and Nokia mobile phones. When Nokia downplayed the significance of the security hole, the three of them took action.

They created the Blue Sniper, a gun-shaped microphone that could pull in Bluetooth signals from 1.2 miles away. Hering and Mahaffey then pointed their gun at the 2005 Academy Awards, hacking sensitive phone data from hundreds of movie stars to illustrated the importance of mobile Security. They encountered upon a team from the New York Times, who brought our story to the world.

Ever since, Lookout has taken a mobile-first approach to security. Today, Lookout protects mobility for some of the world’s largest enterprises, critical people agencies, and tens of people of millions of people worldwide. We’ve achieved this by partnering with leaders in the Mobile systems global, and we’re little getting started.

At the lookout, we’re laser-focused on creating mobile-first, cloud-first products not just for IT administrators and CISOs, but individuals as well. The promise of secure mobility is now a reality-the basis for trust in a world without Data borders.