netnea senior security consultant
webserver engineer
Dr. phil. (History), University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Steps and Skills
- Author of the 2nd Edition of the ModSecurity Handbook
- Co-Lead of the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set project
- Active teacher for ModSecurity and CRS
- Apache engineer and Web Application Security expert
- Program chair of the Swiss Cyber Storm annual security conference
- Vice president of the public private partnership Swiss Cyber Experts
- Renown speaker at international conferences
- Strong conceptual view on defense against Denial of Service attacks
- 3rd level LPI certified (LPIC-3 Security)
- Christian Folini speaks English, German and French; all three fluently
Selected Projects
- Security Engineering for one of the two Swiss E-Voting projects
- Design and implementation of the reverse proxy, the authentication layer and the web application firewall of a mid-sized Swiss bank
- Design and implementation of the reverse proxy layer for 120 dedicated services of a very big Swiss company
- Design and implementation of the Paranoia Mode of the Core Rule Set project
- Author of a dozen Apache / ModSecurity tutorials here at netnea
- Active Defender in one of the best known Swiss DDoS attacks
- Author of several corporate DDoS defense handbooks
Certificates and Trainings
- Linux Professional Institute Certificate Level 3 (LPIC-3 Security).
Interests and hobbies
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