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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: 75 word, 500 Chars

Dr. Christian Folini is a Swiss security engineer and open source enthusiast. He brings 15 years of experience with ModSecurity configuration in high security environments, DDoS defense and threat modeling. Christian Folini is the author of the 2nd edition of the ModSecurity Handbook and the best known teacher on the subject. He serves as the program chair of the “Swiss Cyber Storm” conference and he is a member of the steering committee for the Swiss National Cyber Strategy.

Extended version: 150 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 15 years of experience with ModSecurity configuration in high security environments, DDoS defense and threat modeling.

Christian Folini is the author of the second edition of the ModSecurity Handbook and the best known teacher on the subject. He used to co-lead the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set project and serves as the program chair of the “Swiss Cyber Storm” conference. In 2024, the Swiss government invited him to join the steering committee of the Swiss 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.