Youssef A.Founder

Egypt - ND

I started my journey in cybersecurity with an internship at Squnity from Jan 2017 - March 2017 then I joined them as a volunteer in April 2017, After I finished the internship I joined the internal team as Web Applications Penetration Tester and gave few speeches about cybersecurity one of them was at the "Local Hack Day" event in STEM schools sponsored by GitHub and hosted by Microsoft.

Mid 2017 I started participating in CTFs to gain knowledge and enhance my skill set, Late 2017 I participated in Arab Security Conference Cyberwar Game Championship 2017 and came 2nd.

In Jan 2018 I earned my first bounty on HackerOne platform and since then my journey started with the platform, My overall rank currently is 215th and in the 3rd quarter in 2018, I was placed 26th at the leaderboard. on Bugcrowd platform my overall rank currently is 400th.

I have been acknowledged by top-tier vendors as such but not limited to:

Twitter, PayPal, Apple, Yahoo, Mail.Ru, Epic Games, Verizon, Snapchat, Synack, Bugcrowd, CESPPA, Netflix, Trend Micro, Starbucks, ICQ, Imgur, Ford, Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, Dell, Kaspersky, Alibaba, ESET, IBM, Norton, Pinterest, RedHat, General Motors, Adobe, AT&T, U.S Dept of Defense.

I Reported 600+ vulnerabilities to many platforms including Hackerone, Synack and Bugcrowd within 2 years of doing bug hunting as a part-timer. And my latest achievement was placing 1st at Alibaba Bug Bounty Event, earned a Pure Gold Medal, and got acknowledged by CRO of Alibaba at HITB GSEC Singapore.

Also, I joined Secur'IT Cup 2019 Hackathon from Kaspersky Labs at Ain-shams University with my project (Advanced Fraud Detection System) and won the 3rd rank.

Through my journey, I have gained professional experience in conducting penetration testing(Web Applications, Mobile Applications, Desktop Applications, API, IoT Devices, VoIP Devices, and Networks), vulnerability assessments, adversarial/attack simulation, red teaming, security awareness, and product security evaluation.

Certifications:
eLearnSecurity Penetration Tester Extreme (eCPTXv2)
eLearnSecurity Web Application Penetration Tester Extreme (eWPTXv2)
eLearnSecurity Certified Professional Penetration Tester (eCPPTv2)
eLearnSecurity Mobile Application Penetration Tester (eMAPT)
Attify Certified IoT Security Pentester (ACIP)
Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP)
eLearnSecurity Web Application Penetration Tester (eWPT)
eLearnSecurity Junior Penetration Tester (eJPT)