Jacob Anderson
President, Beyond Ordinary Software Solutions

Jacob Anderson

Jacob W. Anderson is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in software development, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence, particularly within the insurance industry and defense. As the President of Beyond Ordinary Software Solutions since 2000, Mr. Anderson has been instrumental in applying advance data security techniques for the property and casualty insurance sector, and has been an innovator in applying AI in defense.  

Mr. Anderson has been an influence in cyber security. For decades he's applied techniques and practice in the insurance industry, focusing efforts to protect insured information and educate executives about the threats to their enterprises. He created one of the first AI chat-bots that were trained on the CMMC 2 regulations and made that bot freely available. He's made countless wizard tools for conducting self assessments in the NIST800 and has been actively exploring the application of agentic reasoning systems in software development and cyber policy management.  

He holds a CISSP, a GDPR-F certification, many software development certifications, a Master's of Science in Machine Learning, and a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He was a finalist in the XPrize Pandemic Response Challenge and was on a Los Alamos R&D100 finalist team. He was also the maintainer of the Cocos2D-XNA game framework and was a contributor to MonoGame.