Simon Reed

Simon Reed is Chief Security Officer, safeguarding security and trust across the company’s products, operations, and business. Previously at Sophos, Simon served as Chief Research and Scientific Officer. In this role, he leads Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain task force unit that includes more than 1000 threat intelligence and cybersecurity experts from SophosLabs, Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Sophos Advisory Services, Emergency Incident Response (EIR), Counter Threat Unit (CTU), and Sophos’ own internal security team (CISO). Sophos X-Ops shares real-time and historical attack data with Sophos’ complete portfolio of product and services solutions, making them smarter and faster at defending customers from persistent cyberattacks.

Simon has worked in the cybersecurity industry for 25 years, holding senior level roles at McAfee and a number of start-ups. His career in the industry includes a wide range of experience working in core engineering, research, data science, cloud technology, product management, risk and incident management, and strategic leadership.

Simon started his career as a software engineer building high performance applications for Unix workstation, most notably ProEngineer at PTC.