With more than twelve years of experience within the security scene, Cyrill has come across numerous technologies and issues. He has been extensively contributing wargame challenges and educational material to the hacking-lab.com platform in its early days. Cyrill has been providing independent advice in the fields of penetration testing, security reviews and digital forensics to customers within the industries, utilities, pharma, finance and government sectors since 2005. He has been teaching network pentesting, wireless security and application security in cooperation with the Swiss ISACA chapter to several hundred students since and volunteers now and then for security lectures at local universities and the local OWASP chapter. Cyrill has also contributed and supported (CFP board) to former Swiss Cyber Storm and Hack&Learn Conferences. Since 2011 Cyrill Brunschwiler has been working as Head of Security Assessment and Forensics at Compass Security Switzerland. His duties mainly entail project scoping, providing second opinion, employee skill development and dealing with all aspects of penetration tests, reviews and forensics. He is currently on the finishing line to gain his MSc in Information Security from the renowned Royal Holloway University of London.
