The experience of Todd Gilson - Stamford, Connecticut, Entrepreneur

Todd Gilson, a Senior Security Engineer, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) professional, resides in Stamford, Connecticut. The roles he has held throughout the Stamford area have enabled him to develop deep and well-rounded expertise in cybersecurity and enterprise security operations.

Mr. Gilson is the owner of GEST Precision LLC, a cybersecurity and technology consulting firm, where he has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2013. Through GEST Precision LLC, he provides contractor and consulting services to a wide range of organizations. His first client was Bridgewater Associates in Norwalk, where he worked as a Senior Technology Consultant. He has also held roles as a Security Technology Consultant at Lockheed Martin–Sikorsky and as a Senior Security Analyst at IBM Watson Research in Yorktown Heights. He currently provides consulting services as a Senior Security Engineer at Voya Financial.

Mr. Gilson’s security expertise spans vulnerability management, incident response, risk and compliance, penetration testing, and malware analysis. He also specializes in digital forensics—including the use of tools such as Splunk—as well as automation, cloud technologies, and artificial intelligence integration.

He demonstrates strong technical proficiency across a broad range of security domains and platforms, including endpoint detection and response (EDR), identity and access management (IAM), SIEM and security orchestration, issue tracking, and team collaboration tools. His technical toolkit includes PowerShell, Bash, Slack, Jira, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Purview (Microsoft’s data loss prevention solution), and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Microsoft’s container orchestration platform.

Among his professional achievements, Mr. Gilson received recognition for rapidly resolving a critical server issue involving the Tanium security tool at Voya Financial Services. He also actively participates in the cybersecurity community and attended the 2024 Atlanta hackathon.

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Todd Gilson
Stamford, CT US