As a large global technology company whose products such as the Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) appear inside a wide array of other products, NVIDIA may just be “the biggest company you’ve never heard of,” says Wesley Bull, NVIDIA’s Chief Facility Security Officer (CFSO) and Head of Global Security Risk Management, Investigations and Protective Services. “While we’re well known to the gamer community, our technologies are actually involved in solving such a diverse range of technical challenges, we’re literally helping to create the future,” Bull says.
His distinction as CFSO is due to NVIDIA’s engagement in classified work for the federal government. Bull’s global responsibilities include crisis management, executive protection, intelligence, travel security, IP security, protective services worldwide, supply chain security, investigations and administering the security program for classified work with the U.S. government. “That’s where the CFSO responsibility comes in to oversee all of the government’s program requirements. That involves different security auditing and monitoring all the way through to actually helping people get their security clearances and then ensuring that they behave appropriately to keep those clearances,” says Bull.