Dimitri.
I hack stuff.
A passionate IT security consultant. Trying to make the world a safer place through identification and education.
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About Me
I’m a Belgian 🇧🇪 Penetration Tester living in Austria 🇦🇹🏔️ (the one with the schnitzels, not the kangaroos).
This blog serves as a platform for me to publish security advisories and tech-related stuff I think might help others.
Here are a few areas I've been looking into recently:
Here are a few areas I've been looking into recently:
- Identity Providers
- Energy Management Systems
- Active Directory
- Software Distribution Solutions
Experience
I tackle complex IT security challenges on a daily basis, where I aim to find the correct balance between security and usability.
My job entails:
- The development of Offensive Security tooling
- IT security reviews of complex architectures
- Cybersecurity Transformations - Helping the client set up a comprehensive IT security program
- User awareness training
- Managing the Offensive Security Team
- Tracking project delivery
- IT Security Audits of network environments, IT architectures, and applications
- Penetration tests of network environments, web applications, and complex systems
- Conducting IT security workshops
- Serving clients from various industries, including power suppliers and transportation companies
- Continuously developing and maintaining in-house documentation tools for the Offensive Security team
- Implementing exploits in the form of scripts, programs, and proof-of-concepts
- Supervising interns and new joiners
- Training coordinator for the Penetration Testing Team
- IT security audits of network environments, IT architectures, and applications
- Penetration tests of network environments and web applications
- Clients from various industries, including banks, pharmaceutical companies, and food manufacturers
- Assisting in the establishment and operation of a Managed Vulnerability Scanning service.
- Computer and mobile device repairs
- Customer IT support
- Company design
- Imaging hospital workstations via PXE
- Configuration and deployment of employee workstations
- First-Level IT-Support
Education
2014 - 2017
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen (Howest) Brugge
I hold a degree in Computer Science with a specialization in IT security. My coursework covered a wide range of topics, including:
- Databases: Understanding data storage and retrieval.
- Software Development: Crafting efficient and secure code.
- E-Business: Exploring the intersection of technology and business.
- Web Application Security: Safeguarding web applications from threats.
- Windows & Linux Server Security: Setting up and hardening hosted environments.
- Computer Crime (Law Basics): Navigating legal aspects of cybersecurity.
- Web Development: Building user-friendly interfaces.
- Information Modeling: Structuring data effectively.
- Mathematics (Cryptography, Statistics): Figuring out why rolling your own crypto is a bad idea.
- Cloud Computing (VMware): Leveraging virtualisation platforms.
- IT Forensics: Investigating digital incidents.
- Penetration Testing: Identifying vulnerabilities.
- IT Governance (COBIT 5, ISO27001): Implementing industry practices.
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