Abdelhadi is a web application security engineer @2checkout, helping the company to maintain and enforce application security best practices, create secure design patterns, and provide training and awareness to the engineers. he focuses on web applications and network security, with more than 7 years of experience in web development.
He helped more than 50 companies secure their assets via responsible disclosure, Abdelhadi has been doing bug bounty hunting on several platforms for a while and helped companies like Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo secure their websites.
Abdelhadi holds a bachelor degree in Computer Science, but he believes that the best way to learn things about computers is to put your hands on things and start practicing and discovering all the fields in that area
Abdelhadi spends his spare time playing CTF and learn more from the other players.
Marco Rottigni, 48 years, has nearly 30 years of experience in IT and Security.
His career began in 1989 at Leasinvestment as IS Manager.
In 1993 he moved to IDEAssociates/ARANEX, US company specialized in Intranet/Internet solutions for IBM hosts, as a PC & Communication Engineer for Europe. Next, he worked for Esker, a french company offering host access solutions, as a Technical Manager. In 1998 he joined Santa Cruz Operations (SCO) as Technical Services Manager for Italy, Turkey, Greece and Cyprus.
In 2001 he joined of Stonesoft Italy as a Senior Technical Consultant, taking care of presales support, channel training, technical demos and marketing presentations of products and StoneGate technology and project management with Partners.
In 2007 he has been appointed Solution Architect. Part of Stonesoft Corporate Product Management, his role was about linking strategic projects and customers to research and development in Stonesoft. Later on in 2009, he took responsibility as a Product Manager of Stonesoft SSL VPN, coordinating three development teams in Sweden, Finland and France.
In 2013 McAfee acquired Stonesoft, appointing him as Senior Network Security Specialist, while a couple of years later he joined FireEye where he was first Consulting Systems Engineer for strategic projects in Italy, Greece and Cyprus, and later Sr. Product Marketing Manager for EMEA with responsibility for competitive positioning and defining the messaging throughout the region.
In 2014 he moved to FireEye, leader in CyberSecurity and Intelligence based security solution.
As Consulting Sales Engineer, he realized several cyber-security projects in Italy and Greece
In 2018 he joined Qualys as Chief Technical Security Officer for EMEA Region.
His responsibility is to deliver Qualys technical vision, to pitch Qualys unique advantages and competitive differentiators to strategic customers and partners while collecting feedback about customers experience with Qualys solutions across the EMEA region.
Zwienenberg started dealing with computer viruses in 1988 after encountering the first virus problems. His interest thus kindled he has studied virus behaviour and presented solutions and detection schemes ever since. Starting as an independent consultant, later as R&D Manager at CSE Ltd, as a researcher for ThunderBYTE, as Chief Research Officer at Norman, and currently as Senior Research Fellow at ESET. Over the years he has served in many extra roles in different industry organizations. Currently he is still serving on the board of AVAR, on the Technical Overview Board of the WildList and as the Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of IEEE ICSG. In 2018, Zwienenberg joined the Europol European Cyber Crime Center (EC3) Advisory Group as an ESET representative. Zwienenberg has been a member of CARO since late 1991. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and general security seminars.
Razvan Sighinas joined ING Bank Romania management Board in March as CIO.
Răzvan is active in the IT field for more than 18 years, having started as a software engineer and moving on to operations and senior management roles in the US and Europe for major players including Oracle, Vodafone and Electronic Arts.
He holds an engineer’s degree from the Bucharest Polytechnic University, an MBA from HEC France and several major certifications in software and project management.
Prior to his joining ING he operated as Senior Director for Electronic Arts, running an organization spanning across US, Canada, Romania, Ireland and India in charge of providing technology solutions and services such as game engines, big data and real-time analytics solutions running behind all Electronic Arts’ digital offerings.
In the past 10 years, he also headed the IT Operations for Vodafone Romania and created the IT Shared Service Center in Bucharest for Vodafone Group.
With a background education in Business Administration (MBA) and Law, Ramsés is a +22 years security professional with deep expertise in the Risk Management and Governance areas. Ramsés is now Security, Risk and Governance International Director with Micro Focus where he defines the vision and mission, purpose and promise of the company in that arena. He also ensures the proper execution of the department. He has previously been Strategist & Evangelist at the Office of the CTO in Symantec. Before, he was at Dell Security and CA Technologies for 5 and 8 years respectively, he was Regional Manager for SurfControl in Spain and Portugal, and also Chief Strategy Officer of the Security and Risk Management practice at Entelgy. Ramsés served for three years in ISACA’s CISM and CGEIT Certification Committees and also in the the Guidance & Practices Committee for three years from where deliverables are created for the community. He is honored to have been the Chair for ISACA’s ISRM Conference and part of the Program Committee for the events SecureCloud 2010 and 2012. He is now Immediate Past President at the ISACA Barcelona Chapter and played an instrumental role in the Planning Committee that prepared first-ever ISACA's World Congress in Washington, June 2011. He has also been part of the ISACA's CISM PATF Task Force. Ramsés believes that a revolution (rather than an evolution) is needed when considering the move from technology to enterprise risk and that the cloud dimension offers incredible opportunities for businesses today. Ramsés thinks that Governance is essential to facilitate innovation in this changing business environment and holds many certifications that combine different knowledge areas and broaden his vision on technology within the marketplace. Ramsés is a CISM (Certified Information Security Manager), CGEIT (Certified in the Governance of the Enterprise IT) and a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional). He is the proud owner of the SCPM (Stanford Certified Project Manager) from Stanford University, California, one of the first experts with the CCSK (Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge) and also an ITIL and COBIT Foundations certified professional. He develops results-oriented, business-focused, people-driven projects due to his Six Sigma Black Belt accreditation. An internationally recognized public speaker, has visited +25 different countries in the past 12 months and has been awarded 'Best Speaker' many times. He received the John Kuyers Award for Best Speaker/Conference Contributor in June 2013. He has been named 'Privacy by Design Ambassador' by the Government of Ontario, Canada and is proud of being Past International VP for ISACA's Board of Directors. He teaches in different universities on Digital Transformation, Change and is visiting professor in the Master of Cybersecurity for IE Business School. Ramsés is also Executive Vice President of the Quantum World Association and he feels honored of having had the US flag flown on his honor in The Capitol on November the 1st, 2013. He lives in Barcelona, Spain, with his wonderful wife and his two loved kids.
With over 20 years of experience in the field of IT solutions for infrastructure and security, Ovidiu Seceleanu manages the B2B solutions team of the Samsung Romania IM division. The mission is to promote Samsung mobility solutions for companies, to develop the partners ecosystem and to make Samsung Knox the market leader in the field of mobile device management solutions.
Mihnea is an e-Government enthusiast having spent recent years in top management positions for Romanian IT businesses. He is now Deputy CEO for Trencadis Corp, an organic growing Romanian integrator managing complex IT systems, accessed by more than 100.000 citizens daily. Mihnea joined Trencadis in May 2017 having previously shown his expertise in implementing many critical systems as Project and Program Manager from 2003 to 2017 in e-Government, Retail, Automotive and Telco IT sectors.
Mihnea Mihailescu began his project management career holding local and regional positions in Softwin and IBM, implementing projects in various countries, such as Serbia, Bulgaria, The Netherlands and UK. He earned a degree in Economics and likes to ski and travel in the rural and historic sites of Romania.
I got a PC when a was 6.. the rest was just the natural learning process. I fixed and maintained computers and software from that point. Frameworks are like fashion, patterns are found in all frameworks. Best practices morphing into bad practices. Perspective shift on data structure changing from relational to object graphs based on the problem solved. Availability issues, microservices, computing performance, memory pressure, and data integrity. I've dealt with the pain of achieving balance in software architecture for the last 10 years
Matei Popa is a Linux enthusiast that started to work in the field as a Linux sysadmin in 2004. After becoming NOC manager at a local service provider, he co-founded a digital marketing agency in 2010. As a DevOps Engineer, he leads the company’s client portfolio migration from traditional web host infrastructure to microservice architectures hosted in the cloud.
The company joined eSolutions in 2018 where he started as a DevOps engineer and worked on several cloud-based projects, with a special interest in Big Data technologies and security best practices in the cloud. He now works as a Cloud Architect & Big Data SysOps and is involved in cloud-based big data projects, holding certifications from Google and Cloudera.
Marius Vasile has been pioneering the Romanian digitalization market for the past 10 years, focusing in particular on how visual display technology can significantly improve customer experience. In this endeavor, Marius worked with key local and international partners to develop a complex ecosystem of solutions complementary to digital signage solutions, integrating the latest technology (e.g. beacons, Wi-Fi analytics) to create compelling, results-driven technological solutions.
As of 2018, he took an additional challenge and became the local responsible for developing Samsung’s DOOH (Digital Out of Home) solutions, having successfully implemented the biggest Samsung Outdoor LED in SEE Europe, as a part of a bigger urban regeneration project in Timisoara.
Currently, Marius is focusing on the DOOH local development strategy, combining data management tools with the pursuit of delivering a better visual experience.
With a diverse experience spanning across many industries (e.g. retail, hospitality, banking, leisure & entertainment), Marius is a thought leader on the topic of customer experience enhancement through technological innovation.
With almost 15 years in the IT business world, Magda has accumulated extensive experience working for large IT vendors, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft and now Palo Alto Networks. Today, she is focusing on implementing the company's strategy in Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The cybersecurity environment has fascinating particularities and trends, moving at an incredibly fast pace, with fierce competition and with a strategic role in defence. For the past 12 months, Magda has studied the industry trends and challenges, the way the cybersecurity vendors respond to the increasingly sophisticated threats and the way companies around the globe choose to react.
Mr. Adrian FLOAREA, Ph.D., graduated Mathematics and holding a Ph.D. in cryptographic algorithms is a strong supporter of the R&D activity in the IT Identity and Security Field, with applied and innovative approaches of the projects he involves in. He is the CEO of certSIGN and he will back up the project team, providing advice based on his extensive experience. With more than 18 years of technical experience in this industry field and over 10 years of management experience, Mr. Floarea has an innovative vision and a comprehensive approach regarding the means of strengthening the company's activities, but also regarding the new development directions imposed by the evolution of the market and the new technological challenges. Over the years, Mr. Floarea was involved in: research and development projects, certSIGN’s products development strategy, over 15 projects implemented for major industry players. He also was involved in numerous actions, meant to popularize and promote science, by participating in specialized events and publishing articles and books about its field of expertise. Also, along the years, he has paid particular attention on analyzing the impact of IT Identity and Security Field on non-IT domains, including on the activity of administrative institutions - European and/or national. Academic vise, Mr. Florea has a large number of certifications issued by the renowned international institution that, together with all its sustained activity, only proves once more that he is a true path finder in its field of activity.
Founder and CEO of XEduco Institute, George Dobrea is a cybersecurity expert and a well-known technical instructor delivering around the world IT security consulting and training programs for military, commercial or public organizations. Awarded thirteen times by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Cloud & Datacenter and by EC-Council as the ‘Instructor of The Year’ for 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 he’s a popular speaker at technical conferences including Microsoft Ignite and Hacker Halted USA.
Dragos is a security manager, leading Central Europe & Greece security practice for Products: Automotive, Industrial, Retail, CG&S and Life Sciences, with more than 8 year experience in areas such as: IoT Security, Automotive Security, Android Security, Network Security, Embedded Security, PKI Security, Cloud Security, Application Security.
He holds a bachelor degree in Computer Engineering and a Master Degree in Information Security. He is a member of AUTO- ISAC, chapter leader for ASRG in RO, ISACA, ISC2 and IAPP security communities. He has active certifications from CISSP, CISM, CSSLP, CIPM, MIT, CIPP/E and an ongoing patent application in US for an automotive security solution.
His passion around security extends to being a keynote speaker at international security conferences and delivering internal and external training on security topics.
When he is not busy "hacking" stuff, he never says no to running, playing volleyball and tennis, or playing with his two cats: Margot, Misty and his golden retriever Alma.
Darko is a Senior Developer Advocate focusing on Central and Eastern Europe. He shares his passion and technological know-how with Engineers, Developers, and communities across the world. If it can be automated, Darko tries to do so. Most of his focus is towards DevOps and Management Tools, where automation, pipelines, and efficient developer tools is the name of the game – click less and code more so you do not repeat yourself - is what he says!
He has a long IT career in various areas, from retail to government, to even large telcos. At AWS, Darko has worked as a Premium Support Engineer and as a Solutions Architect, which has given him first-hand experience with AWS customers and their AWS adventures, helping them learn the ways of the cloud!
As a passionate collector of old computers, he has a collection of computers and games and they came as an inspiration to tinker with computers as much as possible! Darko comes from Serbia, but has lived in Czech Republic, Malta, Ireland and now Germany!
With 10 years of experience in IT, out of which 6 years as Chief Information Security Officer for Carrefour Romania and 2 years as Head of Security for Bringo, I strongly believe that security is all about people. At the end of the day, this is what makes it worthwhile: helping to protect and improve the lives of the people
Mr. Ionut-Dan Grigore graduated the Military Technical Academy in 2002, Computer Science section, and during 2002 and 2013 he worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, General IT&C Directorate.
In June 2013 he joined certSIGN as Presales engineer and starting from 2015 as Security Solution Architect. Actually, Dan is the Director of the Cybersecurity Business Unit.
He has a wide knowledge of PKI Infrastructures, at technical and also conceptual level, the usage of digital certificates to identify users and machines (computers, servers, web sites, etc.), and he is also involved in a wide range of projects regarding security including cybersecurity mechanisms, security auditing, vulnerability assessment, identity and authentication management, risk management, security monitoring and SOC operations. He possesses a wide experience with various IT security platforms.
Alexandru Luca is an experienced Senior Consultant for Mobile Technologies with over 15 years of experience in the IT & C field. Over the years, Mr. Luca has gained valuable experience in this field both by taking key roles in the companies in which he has worked and by acquiring important certifications in this field such as Certified Enterprise Mobility Management, Certified Solution Design & Deployment, and Certified System Architecture.
Mr. Luca is a member of the certSIGN team for more than 4 years during which, his activity was an important part of certSIGN’s work and business in this field. The company, with its own mobile security department, has developed and now owns its proprietary mobile products, such as Trust4Mobile – Voice, and Messages Encryption application, Fides – Electronic Signature application, and, at this moment, is giving increased interest in continuously improving products and maintaining them at a constantly up-to-date technological level.
Alex Stoian graduated Economics and Business communication holding a thesis on Social Media and how it affects the world from an economic, technical and social perspective. While the skills he obtained would prove useful in the future, he would never work in the economics industry and soon after graduating discovers that he has a passion for IT and Security. Alex has been fiddling with security on and off since 2012 using Kali and the tools the OS comes with. He has however chosen to pursue a career in the Automation field.
With over 5 years hands-on experience on automation testing using his JavaScript, bash and python scripting knowledge he is now currently an employee of 2Checkout and strives to one day go back to his first love - security.
Alex likes to perform hacking challenges his favorites being OverTheWire and HackTheBox. He applies a hacker's mentality throughout his everyday work and wants to expose what he knows about hacking techniques and methodologies in order to make the web a better place.
18 years and a half in Big retail, in Carrefour, started from the first store in Romania and grew with the company from IT responsible, IT Services Manager, IT Technical Manager, ISO, to IT and Digital Transformation Director in the last 6 years.
From 1 month moved to Fildas as a CIO, with all my heart and energy willing to support business development and consolidate Fildas' position as a leader in the market with the help of people and technology.
Member of IDC Advisory board.
I do believe culture is the key to progress. When innovation is in the culture, the result is already there.
I will use my 19 years of experience as a software tester and my 11 years of expertise as senior trainer in order to support my customers in their effort to be more innovative while approaching the quality process and testing because I strongly believe that brain can be used for creation and machines for execution
I lead my software testing business with a very close attention to customer processes so we are able to create tests that will reflect the customer’s style of working, we will replace repetitive actions with creativity, we will use the scripting or coding knowledge to create automated scripts who will replace manual repetitive work.
Together we can automate and innovate more because I strongly believe that brain can be used for creation and machines for execution! My 16 years background in software quality testing & quality training facilitation and my customers testimonials – are my best arguments!
