Saad Kadhi
Director Of CERT-EU at European Commission
Brussels, Brussels-Capital, Belgium
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Top SchoolSaad Kadhi is a seasoned cybersecurity leader with over 25 years of experience and more than a decade leading incident response and digital forensics for critical infrastructure and international organizations. As Director of CERT-EU since 2019 (now reporting into the European Commission), he scaled one of the EU’s most mature CERTs, doubling its size and broadening services across the full NIST Cybersecurity Framework for 90+ EU institutions. He is a pragmatic operator who has managed large-scale crises, built and run multiple high-impact CERTs and CSIRTs across public and private sectors, and advises EU Commissioners and senior officials on cybersecurity strategy. A hands-on technologist and open-source advocate, he co-created TheHive and Cortex—widely used IR tools—and continues to contribute to Cortex analyzers and release management. Known for combining technical depth with strategic communication, he also helps shape the community through conference organisation and programme committees.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master Business Administration, Master Business Administration at IAE FRANCE - Écoles Universitaires de ManagementMaster of Science Electrical Engineering, Master of Science Electrical Engineering at Ecole Mohammedia d'Ingénieurs
English, French, Arabic
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Github Skills (8)
python10
analyzer10
open-source9
api8
apidoc8
json7
incident-response6
computer-forensics5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TheHive-Project/Cortex-Analyzers
Jan 2017 - Feb 2019
Cortex Analyzers Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:72 commits, 6 PRs, 77 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Saad primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the Cortex analyzers. They updated configuration parameters, corrected typos in code and reports, and removed redundant calls to functions. Additionally, they made changes to template files, including reverting and updating VirusTotal links, and merged release branches, indicating involvement in release management and code integration.
cortexpythoncyber-threat-intelligencedfirincident-response
saadkadhi/ansible-cortex
May 2017 - Jun 2018
Ansible module for installing Cortex (from TheHive)
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year
cortexansible-moduleinstallingansiblethehive
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