Meet the lecturers -HEK.SI 2022

Adrian Borlea is a security analyst since 2018 and has been a Windows systems administrator for about 8 years. Currently he is being involved in a cyber-security startup dealing with compliance and vulnerability management working to proactively find and fix potential weaknesses in the organization’s cybersecurity architecture.

Alessandro Magnosi is a senior cyber security consultant with more than 10 years of experience in the IT field. Currently, Alessandro is part of the Security Testing Team at BSI, which is the UK national standards body, and a Global certification, training and cybersecurity firm.
On top of his normal work, Alessandro is an independent researcher for Synack RT, and a passionate offensive tradecraft developer.

Alex Holden is the founder and CISO of Hold Security, LLC. Under his leadership, Hold Security played a pivotal role in information security and threat intelligence, becoming one of the most recognizable names in its field. Mr. Holden researches minds and techniques of cyber criminals and helps our society to build better defenses against cyber-attacks.

Alex Nakouzi is a motivated and ambitious Cyber Security graduate with a positive attitude and responsible work ethic gained throughout a three-year period of full stack web development expertise, and is currently employed as a penetration tester in a cyber security enterprise.

Alexis Ahmed is an experienced penetration tester and security researcher with over 7 years of experience in the Cybersecurity industry. He started off his career as a Linux system administrator and soon he discovered a passion and aptitude for security and transitioned into a junior penetration tester. In 2017, he founded HackerSploit, a Cybersecurity consultancy that specializes in Penetration testing and security training where he currently works as a senior penetration tester and trainer.
He is also well-versed in securing enterprise networks, Linux servers, cloud infrastructure, and has extensive experience with Enterprise Linux system administration, specifically RHEL & CentOS.
In the Infosec & cybersecurity community, Alexis is better known as HackerSploit. That is his platform as a content creator on YouTube. His channel has a massive audience of over 600,000 subscribers! Alexis, as HackerSploit, delivers training content related to pentesting, info-sec, Linux, and malware analysis.

Cristian Cornea is experienced Penetration Tester with various expertise, from finding vulnerabilities in web applications up to breaking into the cloud. Acknowledged for responsible disclosure to well-known organizations such as Sony, AT&T, Adobe, Pentagon, Swiss Post, Australian Government, U.S. General Services Administration. Creating infosec-related blog posts in free time, which helped a lot of people in the Cyber Security community.

Gabriel Currie is a security operations leader, with expertise across cyber incident response and remediation, threat intelligence, and threat detection. He currently leads the Cyber Defence team at the UK Government’s Cabinet Office. Previously, he ran PwC’s Cyber Incident Management function. In this role, he led the response to some of the UK's largest cyber security breaches and worked with major organisations to improve their security operations capabilities.

Gertjan Franken is currently active as a PhD student at imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven. His main interests lie in the field of web security and privacy. More specifically, he spends most of his time automating the evaluation of browser security and privacy policies.

Klaus Agnoletti has been an infosec professional since 2004. As a long time active member of the infosec community in Copenhagen, Denmark he co-founded BSides København in 2019.
Currently as Head of Community in CrowdSec one of his current roles is to spread the word. HEK.SI is a great place for that!

Mr. McOmie is a trusted advisor, security leader and mentor. With a career focus in offensive security and a strong technical background, he is recognized for his excellence in developing and executing enterprise security strategies and leading technical and tactical programs. He has founded and contributed to several industry leading organizations over his career including startups, fortune 100 enterprises, and federal agencies. As an extrovert, he passionately supports the information security community, is a featured speaker at various conferences, a published author, and an industry liaison for many businesses and organizations. 

Maksim Iavich is PH.D. in mathematics and is a professor of computer science. He is the CEO & President of the Scientific Cyber Security Association (SCSA). Maksim is an affiliate professor and the head of the cyber security division at Caucasus University (CU). He is also the director of the cyber security center at CU. Maksim is a cyber security consultant for Georgian and international organizations. He speaks at international cyber security conferences and is the organizer of many scientific cyber security events. He has many scientific awards in the cyber security field. Maksim is the author of many scientific papers. The topics of the papers are cyber security, cryptography, post-quantum cryptography, quantum cryptography, 5G security, mathematical models and simulations.

Originally from Northern California, Michael has consulted and trained info/cyber-security professionals in government, military, law enforcement, and business from Greenland to New Zealand and all over Europe. He holds numerous accreditations and completed an MSc. in Information Technology (information security, specialization), where his dissertation focused on cyber warfare defense.
As a CISO for a London-based investment company, Michael shares his passion for info/cyber security by speaking at conferences, mentoring, training, and consulting. He is an engaging public speaker who is interactive, informative, and funny.

Milan is senior penetration tester with extensive knowledge in web application and Android penetration testing. He loves finding vulnerabilities and exploiting them, as well as finding vulnerabilities in the source code. He holds multiple certifications of which notable is OSCP. He actively participates in CTF competitions and is always learning something new.

Nicholas Doropoulos has been working in the IT industry for five and a half years. He worked as a computer technician at a public school for a year, he entered the cyber security field in 2017.
Within a short period of time he worked his way up from 1st to 3rd line support as a Network Security Engineer, gaining a plethora of industry certifications along the way. In 2019, he was given the 'Check Point Checkmates Champion' status due to his contribution to the community forum of Check Point, one of the top firewall vendors.
Since February 2020, he has been working as a Cloud Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services where he has already been given the title of 'AWS Q+ Champion' due to the highly positive customer feedback received. In November 2021, he was bestowed the highly prestigious AWS Shield SME award due to the anti-DDoS expertise he gained over the past two years while protecting customers from distributed denial of service attacks.
In addition, Nicholas is the founder of Security Charms, a platform of training courses and coaching products for cyber security professionals. His DNS Deep Dive course has also been published on Udemy.
In his spare time, he enjoys practising his OSINT skills by participating in Search Party CTFs for missing people and registering Google Dorks in Offensive Security's Google Hacking Database.

Nino Karamehmedović is a self-taught ethical hacker with hands-on experience in everything from tech support and management, to freelance penetration testing. Always passionate about the hottest new CVEs on the web, he is constantly looking to both learn and teach, and is currently operating as a contractor out of Vienna, Austria.

Paul Coggin is a Cyber SME at nou Systems, Inc. His expertise includes space systems, service provider, and ICS/SCADA network infrastructure attacks, and defenses, as well as large complex network design and implementation. Paul is experienced in leading network architecture reviews, vulnerability analysis, and penetration testing engagements for service provider, enterprise, space systems and tactical networks. Paul is a regular instructor at International conferences teaching networking, hacking and forensics courses. He has a BS in Math\Computer Science, MS in Systems Management, MS in Information Assurance and Security and a MS in Computer Information Systems. In addition, he holds numerous industry network and security certifications.

Pete Finnigan is one of the most well known experts in database security. Pete Finnigan created the SANS Oracle security step-by-step guide and the CIS Oracle benchmark used by NIST, USA DoD and more is a reference to secure Oracle databases. Pete worked out the mechanisms that Oracle used to protect PL/SQL and showed how they can be easily defeated at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas in 2006. Pete has published multiple books on databases security and speaks and publishes papers regularly. His company also produces the tool PFCLScan used to protect Oracle databases.

Piyush Patil is currently working as a Senior Penetration Tester. He has worked in both the offense and defense side for 5+ years. He has found 50+ CVE's and holds numerous security certifications. From the educational side, he has a Bachelor's degree(BE) in Computer Science, Masters's degree(MS) in Cybersecurity.

Ranjeet Ambarte is a well-known Ethical Hacker having 8 years of experience by serving different kind of services to International Clients, Government Agencies, Defence Services, Top Educational Institutions, Corporate Companies and so on. He has a Bachelor’s of Engineering degree in Information Technology and he is Certified Ethical Hacker as well. He assists people on online fraud and social media attacks.

Robert Wagner has spent over 20 years helping organizations improve their security. He is a co-founder of the not-for-profit organization “Hak4Kidz”, is on the Board of Directors of the ISSA Chicago Chapter, and is a Security Executive in Chicago.