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A useful frame for thinking about intelligence, systems, and what comes next.
Simon Wijckmans
I’m the founder and CEO of cside, building security tools for the browser. Before that, I worked at Vercel, Cloudflare, and Microsoft.
Based between San Francisco, London, and Lisbon.
Writing
Why didn't you do it?
The window for the moves that matter is smaller than it looks, and luck is a decision you make by not deciding.
What I learnt at EMF Camp 2026
3,000 people in a Herefordshire field, and the strangest safety culture I've seen up close.
How Minecraft raised a generation of engineers
The best infrastructure people I meet all ran something before anyone paid them to.
Recommendations
Press
Security Boulevard — BSidesSF 2026: Web Standard Consortiums Are a Game With Chrome as the Monopoly Man ↗
NewsBytes — cside Privacy Watch: Script Monitoring ↗
Practical Ecommerce — New Ecommerce Tools ↗
Security IT News — AI Agent Detection: cside Targets Emerging Bot Threats from AI Browsers ↗
Retail Tech Podcast — Interview with cside CEO Simon Wijckmans on Client Side Security for Ecommerce and Retail ↗
Help Net Security — cside VPN Detection Enables Control of VPN Traffic to Prevent Fraud and Legal Exposure ↗
Help Net Security — cside Targets Hidden Website Privacy Violations with Privacy Watch ↗
BetaNews — How Attackers Are Weaponizing Open-Source Package Managers [Q&A] ↗
Help Net Security — Session Tokens Give Attackers a Shortcut Around MFA ↗
CRN — Stellar Startup Security Technology Vendors to Know in 2025 ↗
Cybersecurity Insiders — How the npm Trojan Horse Enables Undetectable Client-Side Attacks ↗
HackerNoon — c/side CEO and Co-founder Simon Wijckmans on The Importance of Browser-side Security ↗
The Hacker News — 3,500 Websites Hijacked to Secretly Mine Crypto Using Stealth JavaScript and WebSocket Tactics ↗
Bleeping Computer — CoinMarketCap Briefly Hacked to Drain Crypto Wallets via Fake Web3 Popup ↗
WIRED — North Korea Stole Your Job ↗
Forbes — Europe 30 Under 30 ↗
TechCrunch — Hackers Are Hijacking WordPress Sites to Push Windows and Mac Malware ↗
Software Engineering Radio — Simon Wijckmans on Third-Party Browser Script Security ↗
SecurityWeek — C/side Raises $6 Million to Secure the Browser Supply Chain ↗
TechCrunch — Startup Battlefield ↗
The Register — If You're Using Polyfill Code on Your Site, Remove it Immediately ↗