Simon Gibson

About Simon Gibson

I\'ve spent 25 years helping build the infrastructure that runs the modern internet — and then securing it. First the networks and streaming pipes in the early Then the banks and governments. Now the AI layer that\'s about to sit on top of all of it. I\'m here to build it, secure it, make it safe, and sell it.I helped build Bloomberg\'s security program before CISO was a job title. I invented the technology that made network visibility possible in encrypted environments at Gigamon, sold it to the US government, and rang the NASDAQ closing bell. I now lead the Ransomware Center of Excellence at the largest credit union in the US and in my spare time, I run Claude and other models on - Ollama in production every day — not as a user, as an operator. Four machines, four Claudes, a documented multi-agent protocol, real applications with real users. I understand LLMs at the model layer — weights, quantization, data residency — across the frontier landscape. When I sit across from a CISO, I\'m not pitching. I\'m translating. I\'ve sat in their chair.I\'m interested in frontier lab security/safety leadership, security of AI systems, and govtech with real equity and real technical depth.

Experience

1. Principal Security Architect, Ransomware Center of Excellence

   Navy Federal Credit Union

   Nov 2022 — Present · VA, US

   Leading the Ransomware CoE — steering committee, working groups, executive and engineering audiences at the largest credit union in the US. Championed emerging security vendors through institutional resistance — kernel-level known-good enforcement at enterprise scale.RSAC 2025 — Cloudflare TV. RSAC 2026 — live \"dead in 12 months\" vendor floor assessment of 20+ AI security vendors.Bloomberg Terminal user in-seat — financial sector threat intelligence as a daily working tool.

Skills

• Software Development
• Unix
• Information Security
• Strategy
• Distributed Systems
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Network Security
• Strategic Partnerships
• Start-Ups
• Computer Security
• Perl
• Software Design