Summary
Jerome Athias is a seasoned CISO with 25+ years in IT and cybersecurity and a dozen years in senior leadership roles, currently leading defenses at Filigran after CISO tenures across crypto, media, and finance. He blends hands-on offensive research and ethical hacking—regularly speaking at RSA, Black Hat and ToorCon—with strategic program building in ISO 27001, NIST, CIS and OWASP frameworks. Jerome has driven security-by-design, SOC operations, incident response and regulatory alignment (MiCA, DORA, NIS2) while working directly with executives and regulators to enable secure innovation. A veteran of both large enterprise SOCs and startup security programs, he also founded FRHACK and led private CERT operations in Africa, showing a rare mix of community leadership and operational depth. Colleagues value his ability to translate deep technical findings into pragmatic risk and governance decisions while mentoring the next generation of security leaders.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Computer science Programmer analyst, Associate’s Degree Computer science Programmer analyst at IUT Dijon, France
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer science architecture programming and networks, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer science architecture programming and networks at CNAM Besancon, France
High School Diploma (equivalent to A-Level) Mathematics, High School Diploma (equivalent to A-Level) Mathematics at Lycee Charles Nodier, Dole, France
French, English, German, Arabic