Executive record
Guy Shamilov
Career profile: Guy Shamilov on CISO Spotlights ↗
Guy Shamilov is Chief Information Security Officer at Forcepoint. The appointment was announced in the week of March 17, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
Before the appointment: CISO at Varonis, per the same source.
The seat was verified again on October 15, 2026, per forcepoint.com.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Guy Shamilov, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Named Chief Information Security Officer at Forcepoint
Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-03-17) ↗ · Move record
Before March 2025· Earlier role
CISO at Varonis
Named in the announcement of the Forcepoint appointment · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-03-17) ↗
The appointment
Announced week of March 17, 2025 · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-03-17) ↗ · Move record
Forcepoint has appointed Guy Shamilov as CISO. Prior to Forcepoint, Shamilov served as CISO at Varonis, Tata Consultancy Services, and Traiana.
According to the company's biography page, Shamilov is responsible at Forcepoint for compliance initiatives, risk management and the company's global cybersecurity strategy. Forcepoint's executive team page lists Shamilov as a member of the executive team, alongside Chief Executive Officer Ryan Windham.
The company says Shamilov has more than 20 years of experience, and that this includes a decade spent as a CISO. According to the biography, he has led enterprise-wide security programs in IT, Homeland Security, Financial Services and Insurance. The biography adds that he has run global programs in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. The company says Shamilov specializes in multi-year transformation initiatives that aim to mitigate risk and enhance resilience, and in embedding cybersecurity into corporate culture. According to the biography, his expertise covers guiding enterprises from on-premises systems to the cloud, securing cloud production environments, and using Governance, Risk, and Compliance frameworks to align security with business objectives.
He holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional certification as well as multiple other industry-recognized credentials, according to the company. The company says the NC Tech Association named Shamilov CISO of the Year for 2023.
The company: Forcepoint
- Sector
- Cybersecurity Vendors
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Forcepoint: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Vendor directory
- Forcepoint sells security products, filed under Data loss prevention. What it sells
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Cybersecurity Vendors whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Guy Shamilov's, nearest first (8 of 17). The Cybersecurity Vendors bench
Paul Calatayud, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at Archipelo
Harold Rivas, Chief Information Security Officer at Absolute Security
Sandy Dunn, Chief Information Security Officer at SplxAI
Bill O'Connell, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Commvault
Mike Rosen, Chief Information Security Officer at iVerify
Richard Bird, Chief Security Officer at Singulr AI
Greg Akers, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Dispersive Stealth Networking
Ryan Gurney, Chief Information Security Officer at LVT (LiveView Technologies)
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- About 1 year 7 months since the appointment was announced (week of March 17, 2025), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- September 26, 2026
- Cybersecurity Vendors in 2026
- 25 security-leadership appointments announced in the sector on the record
How these are counted. Time in the seat: Counted in whole months from the announcement of the appointment, the date the record holds; announcements rarely give a start date.
Questions about Guy Shamilov
- Who is the CISO of Forcepoint?
- Guy Shamilov is Chief Information Security Officer at Forcepoint. The appointment was announced in the week of March 17, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
- When did Guy Shamilov become CISO of Forcepoint?
- The appointment was announced in the week of March 17, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
- Where did Guy Shamilov work before Forcepoint?
- Before the appointment, Guy Shamilov was CISO at Varonis, according to the announcement (SecurityWeek Industry Moves).
Sources
- 1.SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-03-17) ↗: the appointment at Forcepoint, week of March 17, 2025
- 2.CISO Spotlights career profile ↗: a fuller career profile on a sister site
This record begins with CISO Tribune's tracking in 2026.
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