Primary Job Title Co-Founder & Chair Primary Organization Michigan Founders Fund
Location Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
Investor Type Number of Exits
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Dug Song is Co-founder and General Manager of Duo Security, one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity providers in the world. In 2018, Duo was acquired by Cisco for $2.35 billion, making it the largest exit ever for a Michigan-based software company.
Founded in 2010, Duo protects more than 15,000 organizations against data breach with its simple
and easy two-factor authentication and Zero Trust security products.
Dug has a history of leading successful products and companies to solve pressing security problems, and is a renowned hacker and leading voice in the information security industry. Prior to launching Duo, Dug spent seven years as founding Chief Security Architect at Arbor Networks, protecting 80 percent of the world’s Internet service providers. He also built the first commercial network anomaly detection system, acquired by Check Point Software Technologies.
