About

Hello,

my name is Michael aka Alther.

This page is the home of a cybersecurity professional, privacy advocat and staunch democrat.

Some of the things I have done in the past (in no particular order):

• Code refactoring and extension of a Python program to analyze industrial network traffic
• Threat modelling for medical IoT devices
• Security evaluation of medical IoT devices
• Integration and configuration of a 5G campus network into university infrastructure
• Administration of 5G infrastructure
• Server administration for research applications
• Scientific publications
• Helped building a corporate cybersecurity incident response process
• Built a corporate vulnerability management process from scratch (using an XDR system and a CNAPP)
• Assissted in building security training for users and developers
• Wrote playbooks for various incident response scenarios
• Wrote a corporate cryptography standard

Note: To protect my previous and current employers, I will not mention any specific technologies used. For further details (as long as I am allowed to talk about them) please message me directly.

Certifications I have obtained in the past:

• CompTIA Pentest+
• EC-Council CEH

If you want to contact me, just take a look at the main page. There you will find links to all the platforms I am on.

Credit to my profile picture goes to Bart Mathijssen @BartM.