Xavier Mertens
Xavier Mertens is an independent security consultant. His job focuses mainly on protecting his customer’s resources by applying “offensive” (pentesting) as well as “defensive” security (log management, SIEM, security visualisation). Instead of using out of the box solutions from security vendors, he prefers to advice on best ways to solve security issues.
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A few weeks ago I bought Georgia Weidman’s book about penetration testing: “A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking“. Being overloaded by many projec