Summary
Alex Hernández is a cybersecurity professional with 9 years of hands-on experience specializing in offensive security, pentesting and perimeter defenses. Based in Madrid, he currently works at ALTEN conducting ethical hacking engagements and managing perimeter security stacks including CheckPoint, BlueCoat, IronPort and Darktrace. He has SOC experience from Grupo SIA, tuning SIEMs (RSA Envision, QRadar) and responding to incidents for large banking clients, which gives him a strong defensive perspective to complement his red-team skills. As an instructor for Upgrade Hub and OBS Business School he teaches practical ethical hacking, OSINT and post-exploitation, translating field experience into structured training. He pairs systems administration and scripting background (Java, Python, PowerShell, VMware) with vulnerability scanning expertise (Nessus/OpenVAS/Nikto), enabling end-to-end assessments from discovery to remediation. Colleagues know him for blending rigorous attack methodology with pragmatic operational controls and clear, actionable reporting.
9 years of coding experience
Ciclo Formativo Grado Superior, Administración de sistemas informáticos y redes, 8, Ciclo Formativo Grado Superior, Administración de sistemas informáticos y redes, 8 at IES El Cañaveral
Máster en Dirección de ciberseguridad, Hacking Ético y Seguridad Ofensiva, Informática, Máster en Dirección de ciberseguridad, Hacking Ético y Seguridad Ofensiva, Informática at EIP - Escuela Internacional de Posgrados
Spanish, English