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pestafford/README.md

Phil Stafford

Cyber and AI Security Professional

Professional Work

  • AI Security Researcher & Engineer, The Multiverse School, San Francisco 2024-present
  • Security Engineer, Production & AI Toolchain, Hacker-Fu Brands, 2024-present
  • Fractional CISO | Principal Security Consultant, Singularity Systems, 2020-present
  • Founder & CEO | Head of IT & Infrastructure @ Balanced Earth, 2015-2020
  • Founder & CEO | Head of IT & Infrastructure @ Barefoot, 2009-2015
  • Technical Support Advisor, macOS Products @ Apple 2008-2009
  • Information Technology Support Operations @ Sony, 2006-2008
  • IT Duty Manager, UNIX Systems @ Synovate, 2000-2004

Education

  • AI Programming & Deployment, The Multiverse School, San Francisco 2024-2026
  • Master's in Science, Cyber Security and Information Assurance, Western Governors University 2024-2025
  • Bachelor's in Science, Cyber Security and Information Assurance, Western Governors University 2022-2024

Industry Certification Highlights

CompTIA ISC2
CloudNetX Certified Cloud Security Practitioner (CCSP)
Pentest+ Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
Cysa+
Security+
Network+

*This list is not comprehensive

Current Projects

Believers and Skeptic argue their positions while Neutrals build consensus. Produces majority answer, confidence scores, and the key minority opinions from the debate. Explainable and Transparent.

Automatic code review for third-party MCP servers - check for malicious or malformed code before you connect your AI model

Credence - Secure MCP Registry using immutable chains

Uses Thinktank swarms to scan existing corpus of MCP servers (and new ones) to register publicly for organizations to check against. Certificate Authority for MCP.

Research Project - Organic Emergence of Alignment Faking and Deception in Agentic Systems

Is your AI on your side? How do you know?

PatchBrief - Automatic CVE contextualizer

Automatically ingest CVE information with CVSS and EPSS scores through LLMs to contextualize relevance and next steps for your specific tech stack.

Championing AI tools and how they empower humans instead of replacing them.

Well-engineered prompts for various LLMs, with explanations and examples.

Privacy Audit - Reverse OSINT tool

Discover your digital footprint and who might have personal information on you.

Cloaking tool - Obfuscate Fingerprinting

Protect yourself from being profiled online.


Previous Projects

Proxmox server running home automation, data storage, media decoder, and more.

Autonomous AI Robots

Building autonomous robots using kitbashing and Python

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  1. promptengineering promptengineering Public

    Repo for prompts

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  2. infosec-projects infosec-projects Public

    Documentation and Writeups for Information Security Projects

  3. AI_ambassadors AI_ambassadors Public

    Repo for AI ambassadors and outreach

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  4. thinktank-demo thinktank-demo Public

    Python 10 3