Florian Badertscher

COO & Co-Founder

Florian is our COO

Florian Badertscher is one of the leading cyber security experts in Switzerland with 20 years of experience in the field.
In 2015, he has set up Switzerland’s first bug bounty program at scale for the entire Swisscom Group, which he led with his team until 2021. The program spans across all companies within the Swisscom Group and includes systems of heavily regulated sectors (Telecommunications Act, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA, Federal Act on Data Protection).
He is very well connected within the security community and a regular tech talk speaker.
Florian belongs to the experts that are part of the federal council’s advisory board for digital identity.

Experience before Bug Bounty Switzerland

Lead Bug Bounty, Cyber Defense, Swisscom
Security Analyst & Incident Responder CSIRT, Swisscom
Security Analyst, Pentester & Auditor, Compass Security

Education

Executive Master of Business Administration in General and Innovation Management, University of Applied Sciences Berne and School of Management, Fudan University Shanghai
Bachelor of Science in IT Security, University of Applied Sciences Berne
OSSTMM Professional Security Tester

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Blog Beiträge von Florian Badertscher

28. April 2026

The bug bounty industry just admitted its core problem. We have already solved it.

The bug bounty industry is busy building better filters. We’ve built the enterprise operating system for security testing in the agentic world.

25. September 2025

Cyber defense at the speed of attackers

Potential attack surfaces within organizations are changing almost daily. Cybercriminals are prepared for this — companies typically are not. This dynamic calls for new measures.

30. April 2023

Vulnerability of the Month: April ‘23

Welcome back to our blog series! This month with: Haven’t we seen this request already? SAML replay attacks.

03. April 2023

Vulnerability of the Month: March ‘23

Welcome back to our blog series. This month with: The Silent Saboteur – Plain Text Credentials on Webpages.

27. March 2023

Vulnerability of the Month: February ’23

Welcome back to our blog series. This month with: Flipping AES Bits like Pancakes: How a Hacker flipped his way to admin access.

16. January 2023

Vulnerability of the Month: January ’23

Welcome to our new blog series: Vulnerability of the Month! With this series we would like to give you insights into our and our hackers’ daily work and talk about vulnerabilities. By doing so, we hope to help spread important security knowledge about specific vulnerabilities, how to find them, techniques used and by doing that, raising awareness for all the vulnerabilities that may still be out there.

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