Vitaly Simonovich
Senior Security Researcher. Member Of Cato CTRL
Center District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolVitaly Simonovich is a Senior Security Researcher with 11 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity, currently advancing GenAI security and threat research as a member of Cato CTRL at Cato Networks. He progressed through roles from SOC specialist to research manager at Imperva, blending operational incident response with proactive threat intelligence and research leadership. Vitaly also teaches cybersecurity at KERNELiOS and previously at HackerU, translating complex offensive and defensive techniques into practical training. His background includes formal engineering education and self-taught specialization in advanced web hacking and penetration testing, reflecting a mix of academic rigor and continuous self-driven learning. Based in Israel’s Center District, he brings deep expertise in bridging real-world SOC operations, research, and training—often surfacing novel threat vectors in emerging AI-driven attack surfaces.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree Computer Software Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Computer Software Engineering at Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of EngineeringBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at The College of Management Academic StudiesAdvanced Web Hacking Web application security, Advanced Web Hacking Web application security at NotSoSecureHacking Defined Expert Penetration Testing, Hacking Defined Expert Penetration Testing at See Security: Cyber & Information Security CollegePractical Engineer degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Practical Engineer degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at IAF Technological College, HaifaCybersecurity, Cybersecurity at Self-Taught
Hebrew, English, Russian
Github Skills (38)
penetration-testing10
ctf10
buffer-overflow10
privilege-escalation10
testing10
hacking10
youtube10
security10
owasp10
exploit10
malware10
pentesting10
reverse-engineering10
ffmpeg9
youtube-dl9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
vitalysim/Awesome-Hacking-Resources
Oct 2017 - Sep 2020
A collection of hacking / penetration testing resources to make you better!
Contributions:143 commits, 112 PRs, 127 pushes in 2 years 11 months
buffer-overflowctfsecuritypenetrationtesting
vitalysim/totalrecon
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
TotalRecon installs all the recon tools you need
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 6 days
bugbountyreconneed
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