Karim Fakhir
Owner at www.cyber-defense.ma
Casablanca, Casablanca-Settat, Morocco
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Top SchoolKarim Fakhir is a seasoned IT security specialist and founder/owner of Cyber-Defense.ma, based in Casablanca, with a hands-on track record in building secure systems and security products. Over nine years, he has helped 100+ clients across industries strengthen their security posture, develop programs, and govern risk spanning IAM, PKI, MDM, and incident response. He has held leadership roles including CISO at Managem Group SNI/ONA and security expert positions at IBMAROC, INEOVATION, SGCIB, and Safeprotect, delivering security assessments, audits, forensics, and architecture governance. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced the Metasploit Framework with new modules for security testing, such as LDAP credential capture, underscoring a practical offense-to-defense security mindset. He holds an engineering degree in IT security from ENSI Bourges and a strong CS background from ISERT, pairing deep technical depth with security program leadership.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, IT Security, Engineer's degree, IT Security at National school of engineers (ENSI Bourges)BAC, BAC at Groupe scolaire d'anfaMaster 1, Computer Science, Master 1, Computer Science at ISERT
English, French, Arabic
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Github Skills (12)
ruby10
http10
vulnerabilities10
exploit10
penetration-testing10
vulnerability10
audittrail9
code-auditing9
auditing9
audit-logging9
audit9
network-security8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:12 commits, 8 PRs, 31 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Karim contributed to the Metasploit Framework by adding and modifying modules related to security testing and vulnerability exploitation. The commits included adding a module to grab LDAP credentials from Symantec Messaging Gateway, and modifying existing modules, such as those used to exploit Telisca IPSLock, indicating a focus on penetration testing and security assessment tasks. The user's work directly involved understanding and implementing exploits for specific vulnerabilities in various systems.
metasploitmetasploit-framework
kfr-ma/KPIAPP
Dec 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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