Florian Wilkens
Senior Security Consultant at Security Research Labs
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolFlorian Wilkens is a Senior Security Consultant based in Hamburg with 12 years of hands-on experience at the intersection of cyber security research and applied network defense. He completed a MSc and pursued a PhD at Universität Hamburg focused on APT detection, intrusion detection, and malware monitoring, blending academic rigor with industry collaborations. At Security Research Labs he moved from consultant to senior consultant, applying research-led techniques to real-world detection and analysis problems. Florian contributes to notable open-source projects—enhancing Zeek with TLS 1.2 decryption features and improving the Rust-based i3status-rust network blocks—demonstrating low-level protocol and systems expertise. His background includes building distributed in-house tools at Siemens and prototyping mobile and backend systems, which informs a pragmatic, engineering-first approach to security. Colleagues rely on him for deep protocol knowledge, efficient implementations, and translating forensic research into operational capabilities.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Informatics, Master of Science - MS, Informatics at University of Hamburg
German, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
network-security10
zeek10
c-language10
rust10
ssl10
tls1210
cprogramming-language10
openssl10
network-programming10
tls1310
cryptography9
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
network-monitoring9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
zeek/zeek
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know.
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 14 commits, 2 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Florian focused on enhancing the Zeek network analysis framework with TLS decryption capabilities, specifically for TLS 1.2 using the AES_256_GCM_SHA384 cipher suite. They implemented rudimentary decryption functionality within the SSL analyzer, deriving keys and decrypting application data. The contributions involved modifying the SSL and DTLS analyzers and creating the supporting Zeek scripting for key management and decryption.
dfirnsmsecurityanalysisnetworking
greshake/i3status-rust
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Very resourcefriendly and feature-rich replacement for i3status, written in pure Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Florian primarily contributed to the `i3status-rust` project by enhancing the network block functionality. They made the upload and download throughput widgets optional, allowing for more flexible configuration. Further contributions included adding a bitrate widget for wireless networks and optimizing the code to prevent unnecessary calculations when specific widgets are disabled. These changes involved modifying the Rust code, specifically within the `src/blocks/net.rs` file, to add and configure network information display elements.
rustfeature-richpure-rusti3statusreplacement
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