Alain Mowat

Alain Mowat is the Chief Technology Officer at Orange Cyberdefense Switzerland. He joined the company (then called SCRT) in 2009 as a penetration tester and subsequently led the offensive security team in the same company for many years until turning towards Research & Development and finally taking on the role of CTO. While still performing various engagements throughout the year, Alain is also dedicated to exploring new approaches to be used to better secure client infrastructures. Aside from these activities, Alain was an active member in the 0daysober CTF team that finished 3rd at DEFCON CTF in 2015 and has responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities in multiple products such as Citrix NetScaler, SonicWall, Barracuda, Twitter and McAfee. Alain is also responsible for giving various security-related trainings at Orange Cyberdefense Switzerland and has presented at several conferences, such as Insomni'hack, where he is also one of the organisers, CyberSecurity Alliance, SIGS, Area41, SwissCyberStorm and SecurityFest.