Bert-jan Pals
Expert Lead Threat Hunting, Emulation & Engineering
Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolBert-jan Pals is a Senior Incident Responder based in the Netherlands with four years of focused experience in blue team operations, threat detection, and security research. He blends hands-on incident response at ING with continued research contributions at Invictus IR, where he helped develop tools like ALFA and Sigma-AWS to map events to the MITRE ATT&CK framework and automate forensic analysis. Skilled in KQL, Sentinel, and XDR, he publishes practical detection tooling (e.g., kqlquery.com) and maintains an active open-source presence that surfaces real-world detection patterns. His background spans SOC leadership and software engineering, giving him a pragmatic edge in turning research into operational detections. Collected academic training in security, networking and data science underpins his approach to measurable, repeatable threat hunting.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Minor Data Science, Minor Data Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Havo Natuur & Techniek, Havo Natuur & Techniek at Christelijk Lyceum DelftMaster's degree Security & Network Engineering / OS3, Master's degree Security & Network Engineering / OS3 at University of AmsterdamBachelor's degree HBO-ICT Software Engineering specialisatie Cyber Security, Bachelor's degree HBO-ICT Software Engineering specialisatie Cyber Security at De Haagse Hogeschool / The Hague University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English
Github Skills (28)
hugo-theme10
vulnerability-management10
threat-hunting10
infosec10
cybersecurity10
security10
mdi10
threat-intelligence10
malware10
mde10
azure-sentinel10
blueteam10
phishing10
azure10
incident-response10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Bert-JanP/Open-Source-Threat-Intel-Feeds
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
This repository contains Open Source freely usable Threat Intel feeds that can be used without additional requirements. Contains multiple types such as IP, URL, CVE and Hash.
Contributions:15 commits, 8 PRs, 56 pushes in 7 months
cvec2mispthreat-intelligencethreat-hunting
Bert-JanP/SecScripts
Jun 2023 - Jan 2026
Security Scripts and Sources for daily usage.
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
security
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