Erik Van Buggenhout
Co-Founder & Partner At NVISO at SANS Institute
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolErik Van Buggenhout is a co-founder and partner at European cybersecurity firm NVISO, leading a 70+ expert team focused on security monitoring, threat hunting and incident response. With eight years of senior experience and a background in penetration testing and red/blue team tactics, he builds practical defenses that blend offensive insight with business-oriented outcomes. As a long-standing SANS senior instructor and lead author of SEC599 and SEC699, he has trained hundreds worldwide and helped shape industry curriculum on defeating advanced adversaries and purple team tactics. He holds high-level certifications (CISSP, CISA) alongside elite technical credentials (GSE, GPEN, GWAPT, GNFA, GCIA, GCIH), reflecting both governance and hands-on depth. Based in Brussels, he also founded a community think tank that creates legal hacking challenges, signaling a commitment to growing the next generation of security talent.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Information Management and Systems, Bachelor, Information Management and Systems at Thomas More MechelenInformation Security, Information Security at SANS InstituteEconomics-Languages, Economics-Languages at SJABI PuursMaster of Science (MSc), Information Security, Master of Science (MSc), Information Security at Royal Holloway, U. of London
Dutch, English, French, German, Italian
Github Skills (1)
cryptography7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
NVISOsecurity/SEC599
Apr 2018 - Sep 2019
SEC599 supporting GitHub repository
Contributions:47 commits, 40 pushes in 1 year 5 months
cryptographysupporting
NVISOsecurity/ansible-windowslogconfig
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 4 pushes in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.