Yves Younan
Director, Talos Network Threat Detection, Third Party Testing And Vulnerability Discovery
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolYves Younan is a seasoned security researcher and leader with 18+ years of experience building vulnerability discovery programs and practical mitigations across software, ICS, and IoT domains. Currently director of Talos Network Threat Detection and Third Party Testing at Cisco, he has led teams that produced thousands of advisories and hundreds of CVEs annually while improving output through process and engineering. His background spans academia (PhD work on memory-corruption mitigations) to industry, with shipped mitigations like FreeSentry, kernel protections, and protocol inspectors for Snort. Yves played a key role in Talos becoming a CVE Numbering Authority and helped shape CVE 4.0 rules, reflecting both technical depth and influence on industry standards. He combines hands-on exploit and fuzzing expertise with program-level leadership, often supporting in-the-wild 0-day response by quickly producing working proofs-of-concept. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he also publishes research (fort-knox.org) and holds patents stemming from native-code security work.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer science, PhD, Computer science at Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (3)
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talos6
mbr2
Github contributions (3)
Cisco-Talos/freesentry
Apr 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
Cisco-Talos/MBRFilter
Apr 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 13 pushes in 6 months
talosmbrfilter
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