Bart P
CISO Head Of VAB Compliance
Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolBart P is a seasoned cybersecurity and infrastructure leader with over 40 years of IT experience and a decade focused on security roles, currently serving as CISO and Head of VAB Compliance in Antwerp. He has led global teams and built high-performing, customer-focused security and compliance functions at Fortune 500 organizations like Amgen, combining hands-on technical architecture with strategic risk and budget ownership. His background spans endpoint, cloud, SIEM, DLP and ISMS delivery aligned to ISO/IEC 27000, plus deep operational experience from early systems administration through enterprise architecture. An active blue-teamer and malware analyst, he contributes YARA rules and detection improvements to prominent CAPE malware-analysis projects and maintains a repository of PHP backdoors for defensive research and testing. Known for situational leadership, mentoring and pragmatic stakeholder engagement, he translates complex technical requirements into auditable, business-aligned security controls. Less obvious: his career began in prepress and desktop publishing, giving him a practical, cross-disciplinary problem-solving mindset that helped drive early automation and cost-saving architecture decisions.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer and Information Security, Master of Science (MSc), Computer and Information Security at University of LiverpoolB2, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B2, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at HORITOScientific Track - ASO, Scientific Track - ASO at Sint-Pietersinstituut
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian
Github Skills (11)
web-security10
php10
malware10
reverse-engineering10
yara10
python10
anti-malware10
security10
cap9
obfuscation9
sql7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
kevoreilly/CAPEv2
Jan 2020 - Feb 2022
Malware Configuration And Payload Extraction
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:30 commits, 29 PRs, 20 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Bart's contributions primarily center around enhancing malware analysis capabilities within the CAPEv2 framework. They added and updated YARA rules for identifying various malware families, including ransomware like SNAKE, RobbinHood, and LockBit, and RATs like Parallax. The user also introduced features for detecting phishing attempts through PDFs and other file types, and incorporated functionality for analyzing and detecting malicious files like EnigmaStub.
extractionunpackingyarapayloadconfigs
ctxis/CAPE
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Malware Configuration And Payload Extraction
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:16 commits, 11 PRs, 10 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Bart primarily focuses on updating and creating YARA rules within the repository. Their contributions involve defining rules to detect malware, including KeyBase, Kronos, and Maze, and enhancing existing rules. Furthermore, they have updated the signature database, increasing the number of indicators for anti-debugging and ransomware detection. These changes contribute to the project's goal of malware configuration and payload extraction.
payloadmalwareextractionmalware-analysis
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