Samy Baiwir is a cybersecurity founder and practitioner with nine years of hands-on experience helping organizations in Belgium and Luxembourg move from tool-centric postures to attacker-focused defenses. As Founder & Chief Hacking Officer at Cybernoob and a freelance consultant, he blends red-team thinking with pragmatic detection and mitigation design, prioritizing simple, high-impact controls over unnecessary complexity. His background spans penetration testing, network/security consulting, and systems engineering roles at Excellium and Fortinet, giving him both offensive insight and enterprise deployment experience. Samy teaches operational teams to think like attackers so defenses and detections remain effective long term, not just theoretically sound. He’s known for a no-nonsense, results-driven approach and for exposing the easy paths attackers take that organizations routinely overlook.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
1st and 2nd year of Bachelor Engineering (Computer Science & Electronics), 1st and 2nd year of Bachelor Engineering (Computer Science & Electronics) at University of Liège
High School degree Math Sciences & English, High School degree Math Sciences & English at Collège Saint-Joseph Chênée
Bachelor's degree Computer Science specialization Networking and Telecommunication, Bachelor's degree Computer Science specialization Networking and Telecommunication at HEPL - Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège
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Samy Baiwir - Founder & Chief Hacking Officer at Cybernoob