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• “As secretary of the Company,
  Christian Folini was effective leader of a group whose reputation for hardcore medieval authenticity was familiar to re-enactors around the world.”
  Tim Moore, I Believe in Yesterday

 

• “Reserve your right to think,
  for even to think wrongly is better
  than not to think at all.”
  Hypatia of Alexandria

 

• “The purpose of computing is insight
  not numbers.”
  Richard W. Hamming

Curriculum Vitae / Biography

There are two versions of my CV on this page. A longer one and a somewhat shorter one.

Short version: 80 words, 500 chars

Dr. Christian Folini is a Swiss security engineer and open source enthusiast. He brings 20 years of experience with application security in high-profile environments. He is the author of the 2nd edition of the ModSecurity Handbook. He serves as the program chair of the “Swiss Cyber Storm” conference and as a member of the steering committee of the National Cyber Strategy. On top, he is the moderator of the National Dialogue on E-Collecting and an OWASP Distinguished Lifetime Member.

Extended version: 160 words, 1000 chars

Christian Folini is a Swiss security engineer and open source enthusiast. He holds a PhD in medieval history and enjoys defending castles across Europe. Unfortunately, defending medieval castles is not a big business anymore and so he turned to defending web servers, which he finds equally challenging. He brings 20 years of experience with ModSecurity / WAF configuration in high security environments.

Christian Folini is the author of the ModSecurity Handbook 2ed and the best known teacher on the subject. He is a former co-lead of the OWASP CRS project and an OWASP Distinguished Lifetime Member. Christian serves as the program chair of the “Swiss Cyber Storm” conference and as the moderator of the National dialogue on E-Collecting. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the National Cyber Strategy.

Christian Folini is a frequent speaker at conferences, where he tries to use his background in the humanities to explain hardcore technical topics to audiences of different backgrounds.