

Application and Offensive Security Manager at Canon
Application and Offensive Security Manager at Canon
I'm a security researcher with over a decade of experience in tech fields. Currently, I am the enterprise application security lead at Canon EMEA. Sharing our knowledge and experience is super important for me, and that's why I'm a regular speaker or trainer at industry conferences and events such as Confidence Conf 2020, Hack In The Box 2023 AMS, DefCon 3x, IEEE AI-ML-Workshop-2021, SSD TyphoonCon 2x, c0c0n, BSides Toronto, Budapest, Calgary, Newcastle, Barcelona, OWASP Ottawa chapter, LeHack2022, NoNameCon, YASCon, COUNTERMEASURE Conference, DragonCon, COSAC 2022, Hacktivity, DefCon Holland, etc. Moreover, I was a trainer at OWASP Summer of Security 2020 and 2021 July training and a reviewer for Springer Cluster Computing Journal/Elsevier and the 2021 Global AppSec U.S. event.
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