Jannis Kirschner

Selected Projects

Protected Switzerland by discovering and reporting several crititical vulnerabilities in the national electronic voting system (follow my research team).
Secured millions of people by discovering and reporting a severe exploit chain in wifi routers, that would've let an attacker take over 3.5% of all internet users in Colombia.
Prevented thousands of malware infections, by discovering and disrupting an active malvertising campaign targeting a popular chat messenger application.
Co-hosted the world's first single player focused attack-defense ctf (capture-the-flag) event, allowing for over 250 hackers to train and compete against each other in real time.
Ranked top 30 on a major cybersecurity education plattform, outperforming over 120'000 competititors.
Developed dozens of information security challenges for various events, helping both newcomers and professionals to sharpen their cybersecurity skills.
Aided researchers and bug bounty hunters by developing a novel visual subdomain reconnaisance tool (published free and open source), measuring over 125 stars and 30 forks on GitHub.

5x Participant at the European Cybersecurity Championship "ECSC".
Awarded 30 under 30 from Forbes Magazine DA
Awarded for "Best Technical Presentation" out of all 20 Countries at ECSC 2019.
Selected as Team Leader of the Swiss National Hacking Team at ECSC in 2021, resulting in a 200% increase in ranking based on the previous year.
Selected as one of two Swiss representatives to compete for a spot in the International Cybersecurity Championship ICSC.
Won the Runner-Up Spot in the Swiss Master Final 2018 cybersecurity championship.
Became finalist in the Cynet Incident Response Challenge, by solving 25 IR challenges crafted by top industry experts in a limited timeframe.
Won 1st Place in the ICON CTF Finals with my team.
Won 2nd place in the Blackalps CTF 2018 with my team.
Ranked #2 Worldwide Ranking 2021 with the organizers CTF Team.
Ranked #1 National Ranking 2018 with the SW1SS CTF Team.
Ranked #3 National Ranking 2018 with the SW1SS CTF Team.

Industry	Project
Critical Infrastructure	Build and lead the cloud & software security program, increasing the coverage of implemented ISO27001 controls by 300%
Critical Infrastructure	Leveraged several information security processes from a level 1 on the CMMI scale to a level 3/level 4
Critical Infrastructure	Developed a real-time monitoring system for identifying leaks in district heating pipelines, which reduced the troubleshooting times by several weeks every incident
Critical Infrastructure	Performed various internal security audits, code reviews & penetration tests, as well as coordinating and orchestrating several external audits
Automotive R&D Provider	Protected millions of dollars in trade-secrets by performing a thourough security assessment and penetration test and reporting multiple high-severity flaws
Automotive R&D Provider	Ran a comprehensive phishing assessment, identifying multiple weaknesses in detection & processes
Cybersecurity Provider	Trained junior security analysts in penetration testing & reporting, as well as acting as a technical expert in a presales function
Government Department	Protected mission critical systems by discovering a severe vulnerability covered within the scope of a Bug Bounty Program
Education	Discovered and reported multiple high-severity security flaws in education systems, such as the secure exam environment, which prevented cheating and exposing of faculty staff's credentials

Conference/Event	Presentation Title	Location	Special Remarks
REcon MTL	Reverse engineering of black-box binaries with symbolic and concolic execution techniques	Montreal, Canada	Talk and Workshop
Insomnihack	Symbolic Execution Demystified	Switzerland, Geneva
Switch.ch Cloud Security Workshop	Building a resilient cloud security program based on Microsoft Azure Technologies	Remote	Invited Speaker
HEK.SI	Vulnerability Research in Large-Scale Systems	Slowenia, Ljubljana	Invited Speaker
Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit (SAS)	How to secure your electronic voting system	Spain, Barcelona	Cancelled due to COVID-19 Pandemic
Chaos Communication Congress 36C3	Swiss Cybervoting Pit(falls)	Germany, Leipzig	Europe's biggest hacker conference
European Cyber Security Challenge 2019	Evil Admin	Romania, Bukarest	Awarded as European Champion for holding the best technical presentation
BSidesZH	Swiss Cybervoting Pit(falls)	Switzerland, Zurich	Special Presentation for BSides Format
Swiss Hacking Challenge 2019	Windows Userland Reverse Engineering	Switzerland, Berne
Swiss Cyber Storm Challenge 2018	Advanced Format String Exploits for CTF	Switzerland, Greater Zurich Area

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