Symmatrics Appoints Andrew Hallman to Strategic Advisory Board

Insider Brief

• Symmatrics has appointed Andrew Hallman, a former senior CIA and ODNI official who now works at Leidos, to its Strategic Advisory Board.
• Hallman brings more than 30 years of intelligence and security experience, including serving as Deputy Director of the CIA for Digital Innovation and performing the duties of Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence.
• Symmatrics is developing cybersecurity products based on One-Time Pad Symmetric Key (OTPSK) encryption, which the company says are designed to protect data and communications against AI-driven and quantum-related threats.

PRESS RELEASE — Symmatrics, the cybersecurity company pioneering one-time pad encryption at internet scale and building the new trust layer for the AI and post-quantum era, today announced the appointment of Andrew Hallman to its Strategic Advisory Board. Hallman joins the company as organizations across government, defense, and critical infrastructure sectors face escalating cybersecurity risks driven by artificial intelligence and the emergence of quantum computing.

A respected national security leader, Hallman brings more than three decades of intelligence and security experience, including senior leadership roles at both the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).  He is currently Vice President and Strategic Account Executive for the Intelligence Community at Leidos, Inc.