Geri has more than 13 years of experience in cybersecurity. He started on this path as he specialized on network and information security in his M.Sc. of computer engineering. Since then, he worked as a QA engineer for a security vendor, then changed to penetration testing, first as an external consultant for numerous companies then as an internal consultant at Siemens. He was a hacker at heart and consultant by trade. He executed penetration tests and security assessments both in IT and OT environments. He also worked on innovative ways to assess the security of higher risk OT systems. Since he comes from the offensive security side, he has a deep understanding of how hackers think and operate, which can be crucial to build defenses.
In the past years he focused on security research in binary analyses and reverse engineering. His current focus is malware research. Geri also regularly teaches highly technical topics such as hacking and reverse engineering.
