Building a Safer Web: How Simon Wijckmans is Shaping the Future of Cybersecurity?
What if you spend millions to safeguard your web infrastructure, rigorously monitoring your open source supply chains, only to find that the biggest threat isn’t where you’ve been looking? Every day, browsers—powerful gateways to the online world—remain an overlooked battlefield, providing attackers with unmonitored entry points to exploit vulnerabilities outside of your field of vision, on the end user’s device. In an era where online safety feels like a mirage, how secure is your website really? For Simon Wijckmans , the CEO and Founder of c/side , this question wasn’t just theoretical—it was a challenge that needed solving. Originally from Belgium and now splitting his time between London and San Francisco, Simon’s journey began at Microsoft and later expanded through pivotal roles at Cloudflare and Vercel. While managing client-side security products at Cloudflare, Simon uncovered a glaring gap: many established security vendors treated clie...