Rizwan Mallal
COO, Forum Systems

Rizwan Mallal

Rizwan Mallal serves as the Chief Operating Officer. As a founding member and Chief Security Architect of Forum Systems, the wholly owned subsidiary of Crosscheck Networks, Rizwan was responsible for all security related aspects of Forum’s technology. Previously, Rizwan was the Chief Architect at Phobos where he was responsible for developing the industry’s first embedded SSL offloader. This product triggered Phobos’s acquisition by Sonicwall (acquired by Dell). Before joining Phobos, he was member of the core engineering group at Raptor Systems which pioneered the Firewall/VPN space in the mid 1990s. Raptor after its successful IPO in 1996 was acquired by Axent (acquired by Symantec). Rizwan started his career at Cambridge Technology Partners (acquired by Novell) where he was the technical lead in the client/server group. Rizwan has a BSc. in Computer Science from Albright College and MSc. in Computer Science from University of Vermont.

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