Florian Badertscher

CTO & Co-Founder

Florian is our CTO

  • 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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