Alexander Hagenah
Head Cyber Controls at Harvard Business Review
Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Hagenah is a cybersecurity leader with 11 years of experience, currently heading Cyber Controls at SIX in Switzerland where he oversees security strategy and operational resilience. He combines hands-on offensive security expertise—demonstrated by developing a Metasploit exploit for a WinRAR vulnerability—with enterprise governance and risk management at scale. Alexander serves on advisory bodies for HackerOne and the Harvard Business Review, reflecting a blend of technical depth and influence in policy and industry dialogue. His background shows an uncommon mix of crafting sophisticated file-format exploits and translating those insights into pragmatic controls for financial infrastructure. Colleagues know him for bridging red-team techniques with board-level security programs, ensuring technical findings drive measurable reductions in risk. He is based in Switzerland and focuses on making high-stakes environments both secure and auditable.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
windows10
exploit10
meta-framework10
meta10
metasploit10
vulnerability9
python9
vulnerabilities9
security-vulnerability9
ruby8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rapid7/metasploit-framework
May 2020 - Jan 2026
Metasploit Framework
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 11 PRs, 34 comments in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexander's primary contribution is the development of an exploit module within the Metasploit framework, targeting a WinRAR vulnerability (CVE-2023-38831). The commits demonstrate the user's ability to craft malicious RAR files to achieve code execution, integrating a payload and decoy file. Further commits update and refine the exploit, improving its functionality and maintainability. The user demonstrates experience in file format exploitation and Metasploit module development.
metasploit
xaitax/SploitScan
Jan 2024 - Jun 2026
SploitScan is a sophisticated cybersecurity utility designed to provide detailed information on vulnerabilities and associated exploits.
Contributions:27 releases, 2 reviews, 13 PRs in 2 years 5 months
cybersecurityvulnerabilities
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