Mohamed Idris
Senior Manager Penetration Tester - Offensive Security Team
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMohamed Idris is a senior penetration testing leader with over 17 years of international security experience and more than a decade leading offensive security programs in the UK. Currently Senior Manager of Capital One’s Offensive Security team, he directs a 16+ tester full-stack testing cell, drives process and automation improvements, and ensures compliance-driven and risk-focused pentesting across lines of business. He combines deep hands-on expertise in application, infrastructure and network testing with program design, incident analysis, policy creation, and security tool development. Mohamed has a strong track record of mentoring and scaling teams, elevating junior and senior practitioners while embedding practical remediations into engineering workflows. His background spans vendor and in-house roles where he discovered real-world issues (including disclosed zero-days) and translated research into repeatable testing methodologies. Holding advanced security degrees and a pragmatic developer roots, he uniquely bridges secure development, offensive research, and enterprise risk management.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Security Science Information Security, Master of Security Science Information Security at EC-Council UniversityB.Sc. Hon. Computer and Information Sciences, B.Sc. Hon. Computer and Information Sciences at University of KhartoumMSc. Cyber Security Information Security, MSc. Cyber Security Information Security at University of Bradford
English, ArabicGithub contributions (3)
moha99sa/EvilAP_Defender
Mar 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
moha99sa/AI_Prompt_Fuzzer
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 1 tag in 2 months
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