Simon Hunt

Simon Hunt

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Fleming Island, Florida, United States

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  • Securonix
    Chief Product Officer
    Securonix
    Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 8 months)
    Helping the world move towards integrated cloud-hosted SIEM with next-generation threat detection, investigation and response, behavioral analytics and more.
  • CUBE AI
    Member of the Board of Advisors
    CUBE AI
    Jun 2022 - Current (4 years 3 months)
    Helping to solve the $4b+ of digital currency fraud.
  • National Cyber Group
    Board Member
    National Cyber Group
    Apr 2022 - Current (4 years 5 months)
    Helping National Cyber Group in its mission to address the cybersecurity skills shortage through training and boot camps accessible to all.
  • Reveald
    Chief Product Officer
    Reveald
    Feb 2023 - Jan 2025 (2 years)
    Designing the next generation of AI-enhanced cybersecurity vulnerability management technology, alongside force-multiplied service offerings in the MDR and XDR markets. Helping enterprise and government customers make the right decisions to reduce material cybersecurity risk effectively.
  • SecurityScorecard
    Chief Product Officer
    SecurityScorecard
    May 2022 - Dec 2022 (8 months)
    How can we expect companies we rely on to make wise cybersecurity decisions when criminals change tactics overnight, and the technology we rely on is overcomplex, vulnerable, and subject to human misconfiguration? Maybe evaluating our online footprint from the same viewpoint as the cybercriminals, talking in the language of risk, and bringing actionable, prioritized intelligence to everyone is a start. Helping SecurityScorecard make products that delight, inform and ... stop criminals from getting rich. • Migrated from ad-hoc to full standardized product roadmap tracking and prioritization, leading to predictable on-time delivery and tracking of projects • Stabilized and de-duplicated competing functional asks to free up velocity for prod
  • HYAS
    Technical Advisor to the Board Of Directors
    HYAS
    May 2022 - Aug 2022 (4 months)
    Supporting Hyas’ mission to mitigate cybersecurity risks at the network level.
  • Resurface Labs
    Advisory Board Member (acquired by Graylog)
    Resurface Labs
    Mar 2022 - Jul 2023 (1 year 5 months)
    Helping Resurface Labs in their mission to prevent API attacks against online services, to protect the systems we rely on in the modern connected ecosystem.
  • RiskRecon A Mastercard Company
    President
    RiskRecon A Mastercard Company
    Jan 2020 - Mar 2022 (2 years 3 months)
    Honoured to join co-founders Kelly White and Eric Blatte on the acquisition of their Company into Mastercard.
  • Mastercard
    Executive Vice President, Cybersecurity Product Innovation
    Mastercard
    May 2018 - Mar 2022 (3 years 11 months)
    Helping Mastercard deliver on their vision of "A World Beyond Cash" through robust cybersecurity solutions which facilitate transactions, reduce fraud and keep our money and information out of the hands of cybercriminals. Responsible for global fraud analytics solutions, PCI and other standards, merchant and bank equipment certification, EMV Chip security, Mastercard Digisec Lab, and customer-facing cybersecurity solutions. • Executive Sponsor for the December 2019 acquisition of http://RiskRecon.com , an AI first and third party cyber risk rating startup • Lead the team who delivered Cyber Secure to market, providing actionable cyber risk intelligence to every merchant and bank who touches a Mastercard transaction • Exec sponsor of our Cy
  • GarbleCloud
    Member Of The Board Of Advisors
    GarbleCloud
    May 2017 - Jan 2025 (7 years 9 months)
    Helping Garblecloud realize their vision of multi-cloud data security.
  • WinMagic
    EVP and Chief Technology Officer
    WinMagic
    Feb 2017 - Dec 2017 (11 months)
    20 years after WinMagic and my previous company SafeBoot started offering solutions to data loss problems, we're still faced with daily news about data breaches from lost devices. Whether it's a stolen laptop, a mislaid USB stick, or a missing instance of a cloud server - protecting our data should be a key objective of any company. • Headhunted by CEO and Founder to help modernize processes and improve product quality, delivering several on-time product releases, reorganizing the development and QA organizations to an agile, flat structure, and improving alignment between the technical and sales organizations. • Built out a complete multi-year technical strategy including short and long-term objectives, investment model and staffing estima
  • Intel Corporation
    Chief Technology Officer, Founder McAfee Secure Home Platform
    Intel Corporation
    Jan 2015 - Dec 2016 (2 years)
    From its inception in 2011 within my Innovation team, nurtured, defined and executed on building McAfee's Secure Home Platform - a solution to how to secure the ever connected smart home from cyberattack and hackers. This included ideation, prototype creation, defining market and business cases, sales and commercial models, and finally gaining both internal and external executive level sponsorship. https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/executive-perspectives/the-connected-home-introducing-little-red-boxes/ • In 2015 Transitioned Secure Home Platform into full production for launch at CES 2017 in partnership with Arris as part of their future connected home strategy. • Responsible for product design, architecture, industry outreach, field su
  • Sift Security
    Member, Board Of Advisors (acquired by Netskope)
    Sift Security
    Aug 2014 - Jul 2018 (4 years)
    Sift Security provides enterprise security incident response and investigation technology, leveraging big data and advanced analytics to enable enterprises to efficiently identify, prioritize and investigate risks inside their enterprise. Sift helps you prioritize and investigate, using novel graph visualizations to help you understand the connections between seemingly unrelated evidence. https://siftsecurity.com/
  • McAfee
    Worldwide Chief Technology Officer
    McAfee
    Jun 2012 - Sep 2012 (4 months)
    Intel group acquired McAfee, Inc. in August 2010 for $7.8B - The largest security acquisition in the market at that time. • Responsible for the ongoing technology vision and coordination for McAfee / Intel Security while we searched for a new global spokesperson. • Coordination of the "Office of the CTO" team, our leading technologists, aligning them with business goals, and being on constant watch for cross-business synergy and duplication. And of course, being the go-to person for technology vision across the board.
  • McAfee
    VP & Chief Technology Officer
    McAfee
    Jan 2010 - Jan 2015 (5 years 1 month)
    Responsibility for the portfolio of business and consumer endpoint products at McAfee. Anti-virus, anti-malware, spam, network access control, and many others, a multi-Billion USD business, while maintaining sales of the SafeBoot portfolio at around $100m pa despite deliberate commoditization. Also responsible for: • Innovation team of developers and consultants, creating blue-sky developments for production in the 18month + window • Technical due diligence for the Mergers and Acquisitions Team, and synergy with McAfee roadmap and goals - completed 15 successful acquisitions. • Representing the Office of the CTO in the Patents and IP group, encouraging innovators to create patents for new IP. Most prolific inventor 2014. • Principal devel
  • McAfee
    VP & Chief Technology Officer, Data Protection Group
    McAfee
    Nov 2007 - Jan 2010 (2 years 3 months)
    Following McAfee's successful acquisition of SafeBoot N.V. for $350m, I continued my responsibility or the encryption portfolio and added McAfee's DLP and mobile technologies.
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    Founder & Chief Technology Officer (acquired by McAfee)
    SafeBoot
    Jun 2000 - Nov 2007 (7 years 6 months)
    SafeBoot solved the problem of "what happens if someone steals my laptop?" combining strong encryption with user friendly multi factor authentication and world-class central management, SafeBoot was one of the most successful full-disk encryption products of its time. After a successful run, SafeBoot was acquired by McAfee in 2007. Responsible for the entire technical product lifecycle within the company, including product design, management, support and implementation. • Grew development staff from 2 to 15, founded 9 regional support sites and managed technical relationships with over 40 partner companies. • Took product sales from $250k pa to over $67m pa from 2001 to 2007. • Brokered acquisition of SafeBoot by McAfee in 2007 for $350m.
  • Fischer International Identity
    Security Consultant
    Fischer International Identity
    May 1997 - Jun 2000 (3 years 2 months)
    Responsible for pre and post sales activities, advising customers on product implementation, and coordinating support efforts for the non-USA market. Helped grow sales from circa $50,000 to over $250,000 by end of 2000, along with architecting product features to give scaleability and supportability. Led the team who ultimately acquired the product IP, and introduced Control Break Europe (SafeBoot) to the table, taking an instrumental part in creating the transfer strategy, defining the terms of the contract, and ensuring the smooth transfer of all sales, support and HR activities to the new organization.
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    Security Consultant
    Utimaco SafeWare Mergent International
    May 1996 - May 1997 (1 year 1 month)
    Pre and Post Sales product engineer, helping implement security software on customers site, product pitches at board level meetings, and helping support existing customers.
  • ICL Fujitsu
    European Training Manager
    ICL Fujitsu
    Mar 1994 - May 1996 (2 years 3 months)
    Responsible for both engineer technical knowledge, and also soft customer facing skills for upwards of 300 PC engineers, both consumer and corporate facing. I was responsible for both creating course materials, and presenting across the UK and europe.
  • Self Employed
    Software Programmer
    Self Employed
    Jan 1993 - Jan 1994 (1 year 1 month)
    Automated stock control systems for a multi-store business. Architecture and programming plus report generation using QBasic, GEM, Windows 3.0 etc.
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  • Bangor University
    B.Sc, Marine Biology / Oceanography
    Bangor University
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    Map of City, Local and Government Cybersecurity Incidents
    Nov 2019 - Current (6 years 10 months)
    An online map of cybersecurity events against local and central government organizations, including schools, police and other municipal services, with a particular interest in tracking whether any payment was requested or made to cybercriminals as a "ransom demand". To contribute events, email me.
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    Securonix Agentic Mesh - SAM
    Mar 2025 - Feb 2026 (1 year)
    18th February 2026 – Securonix, Inc., in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), today announced Sam, the AI SOC Analyst, and the Securonix Agentic Mesh, introducing a new operating model for security operations designed to scale analyst productivity, govern AI in production, and deliver board-ready outcomes.
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    Oxford Cyber Futures For Business Leaders Guest Contributor
    Feb 2020 - Mar 2022 (2 years 2 months)
    Guest Contributor. Oxford Cyber Futures is a new, online programme designed by the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford to empower business leaders, from all industries, with the knowledge required to make strategic decisions around cyber security. Through self-paced online study and collaborative team projects students will cover: Foundations of Cyber Security Digital Privacy Net Neutrality Data Governance Artificial Intelligence Digital Ethics
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    Mastercard Cyber Secure
    Jan 2020 - Mar 2022 (2 years 3 months)
    How do you help tens of thousands of banks and tens of millions of merchants protect themselves better from cyberattack and fraudulent use of stolen credit cards? One answer might be to feed them rich, actionable information on the flaws within their public internet facing technology, and timely information on breaches and stolen credit card data. Cyber Secure combines Mastercard AI, dark web data, cyber intelligence, and cyber risk discovery and prioritization from RiskRecon and delivers that to every bank and merchant who touches a Mastercard transaction, globally.
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    Acquisition of Cytegic by Mastercard
    Jan 2020 - May 2020 (5 months)
    Skills: Entrepreneurship • Start-up Ventures
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    Acquisition of RiskRecon by Mastercard
    Nov 2019 - Dec 2019 (2 months)
    Executive sponsor for the acquisition of RiskRecon by Mastercard.
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    McAfee Secure Home Platform
    Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 (1 year)
    "I have 52 internet connected devices in my home, and have no idea what they are doing" - A simple problem statement which put us on a 5 year path to create McAfee's answer to the increasing number of internet connected devices in homes, and the decreasing relevance of the traditional PC. By taking enterprise-class network protection concepts, and squeezing them into consumer level router devices, this project aims to protect every IP-connected device in the home from hackers and malware, while also allowing parents to control when what and how the Internet is consumed by their children - all in a non-technical, simplistic way. I lead the development teams who created the prototype product, designed the user experience, worked with the
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    Mcaf.ee - McAfee's Short URL provider
    Apr 2010 - Nov 2017 (7 years 8 months)
    Short URLs are one way cybercriminals entice people to click on links - you simply can't tell where you'll end up. The McAf.ee short url links are secured by the cumulative knowledge of the McAfee Global Threat Information system, and thus are significantly safer. If someone tries to direct you to malware, the system will warn you and stop you visiting the infected site. In 2019, despite years of flawless service McAfee decided to turn off the mcaf.ee service and port the links over to a white-labelled Bitly powered shortener mcafee.ly - invalidating all the short links created prior to 2017. The two golden rules of URL shorteners are usually understood to be that links must live forever, and you can never reuse a link - this preserves
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    Autodomain - Zero touch onboarding for full disk encryption users
    Jan 2008 - Dec 2014 (7 years)
    For anyone who's tried to deploy a user-aware full disk encryption solution, you'll have experienced the difficulty of getting user accounts set up, knowing who's using which machine etc, and generally exercising good least-privledge security rules. Autodomain was a deployment tool written to zero-touch onboard users into the SafeBoot/McAfee Endpoint Encryption product. You could simply include it in the distribution package, and it would handle everything - create and assign users, capture and set up passwords, put machines into the right groups - totally zero touch deployment. Over the life of the project, it generated around $60m of business. I was the sole author of the toolkit, with Dan Larson as my trusted field SE helping define th
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    Drive Encryption for HP ProtectTools
    Jan 2006 - Jan 2014 (8 years 1 month)
    With HPs drive to offer the most secure laptops to business clients, SafeBoot (and subsequently McAfee) partnered with HP to offer full-disk encryption integrated with the HP ProtectTools security suite. This solution, based on our enterprise disk encryption products, and integrated with HPs fingerprint, smart card and password authentication system offered both data protection compliance and security of personal information to HPs better and best laptop computer range.
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    Acquisition of ThreatQuotient by Securonix
    In June 2025, Securonix, a five-time Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), announced the acquisition of ThreatQuotient, a four-time leader in threat intelligence based on QKS Group Spark Matrix report and the force behind ThreatQ, the most innovative external threat intelligence platform. This combination will create a comprehensive, modular, and fully integrated AI-driven platform for threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR), leveraging advanced analytics and insights across both internal and external threats.
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    Acquisition of rThreat by Reveald
    In August 2023, Reveald, Inc. successfully acquired the rThreat business, bringing their Breach and Attack Orchestration platform into Reveald's CTEM story, and integrating the rThreat USA and Mexico teams together into one organization.
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    McAfee acquisition of Stonesoft
    McAfee announced the $389m acquisition of the Finnish next-generation firewall vendor Stonesoft
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    McAfee acquisition of ValidEdge
    McAfee announced it had acquired the ValidEdge sandboxing technology
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    McAfee acquisition of Reconnex
    July 2008, McAfee announced closure of the $46m acquisition of DLP Vendor Reconnex
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    Best Insider Threat Solution
    Secure Computing Magazine
    Securonix was named the winner of the 2026 SC Awards for Best Insider Threat Solution category for its Securonix UEBA platform, which uses advanced behavioral analytics and AI-driven detection to help organizations identify and respond to insider threats. The category recognizes solutions designed to reduce the risks posed by intentional or accidental insider activity, including credential sharing, data exposure, shadow IT, and unauthorized network access.
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    Readers Trust - Best Encryption Solution
    Secure Computing Magazine
    SafeBoot Enterprise from Control Break International has won the Secure Computing Magazine Reader Trust Award for 2004. SafeBoot was voted the Best Encryption Solution. The Awards presentation in London was the culmination of 8 months of nominations, voting, testing, reviewing and judging – the most comprehensive and stringent SC magazine Awards program ever. There were over 900 product and service nominations from around the world and nearly 300 companies participated
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    SC Awards Readers Trust Best Authentication Product 2006
    Secure Computing Magazine
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    Best Anti-Malware Solution
    Secure Computing Magazine
    McAfee VirusScan Enterprise and AntiSpyware Enterprise
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    Readers Trust - Best Authentication Product
    Secure Computing Magazine
    SafeBoot's flagship mobile data security solution, SafeBoot(R) Device Encryption(TM), has won the SC Magazine 2006 European Reader Trust Award in the "Best Authentication" category. The award was announced at a black-tie dinner hosted by the magazine on Tuesday, April 25 at The Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.
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    SC Awards 2008 Best Security Product
    Secure Computing Magazine
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    Readers Trust - Best Identity Management Solution
    Secure Computing Magazine
  • McAfee Inc
    Most Prolific Inventor
    McAfee Inc
    Named top individual patent contributor for 2013, with 20 patents filed. Also in 2013 I and my direct team were the largest single group of contributors to McAfee's IP portfolio.
  • TechTarget
    Gold Award - Mobile Data Security
    TechTarget
    McAfee Endpoint Encryption offering (formerly SafeBoot Encryption) has emerged as a leader in the growing market for technologies to help protect sensitive corporate data from theft or loss. It's this year's gold medal winner.
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    Best anti-malware management
    Secure Computing Magazine
  • SecurityScorecard
    SecurityScorecard Authorized Sales Representative
    SecurityScorecard
    Completion of 22 hours of sales training and assessment of ability to demonstrate SSC products to customers.
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    SME Security Solution of the Year
    Computing Security Awards
    http://www.computingsecurityawards.co.uk/
  • Mastercard
    Mastercard CEO Award 2020
    Mastercard
    CEO Award for M&A Acquisition and Integration for Mastercard's successful integration of RiskRecon into the Cyber & Intelligence business.
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