Jean-François Maes is a senior security consultant with over 4 years of experience in offensive security.
Jean-François specializes in conducting advanced attack simulations for a range of sectors including large financial organizations and critical national infrastructure. With a focus on Red and Purple Teaming, Jean-François has completed numerous assessments aimed at identifying attack paths that adversaries could use to compromise critical assets and helping to secure customer environments against real-world threats.
SANS
Jean-François is a strong believer of knowledge sharing to make the (cyber) world a safer place. During both free and professional time, Jean-François has published numerous offensive tradecraft tools on GitHub and presented on numerous conferences such as DEFCON, Hack In The Box, BruCON, the list continues.
In addition to his consulting work for TrustedSec, Jean-François is also a SANS instructor and co-author of the SANS SEC699 and SANS SEC 565 courses.
Jean-François’ passion for security began at a young age when he was introduced to technology in the form of a classic GameBoy. He had to know how it worked.
Jean-François’ curiosity of learning how specific technology works from the inside has given him a better understanding in how that same technology could potentially be exploited. His hunger for knowledge, and his curiosity knows no limit. Jean-François continues to pick up new tricks from his fellow peers, and passes his own knowledge down to the next generation of cybersecurity experts.