Philippe Oechslin

Current

CEO and Founder at OS Objectif Sécurité SA

Past

Lecturer at EPFL
Freelance IT Security Consultant at Philippe Oechslin Conseil en Sécurité Informatique (Self-employed)
Senior IT security consultant at Netexpert

Product Manager at Lightning Instrumentation SA
Postdoc researcher at University College of London
PhD Student at EPFL
Researcher at Bell Labs
Exchange student at Unicamp

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Education

EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne)
Gymnasium Neufeld

Recommended

3 people have recommended Philippe

Connections

271 connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

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Philippe Oechslin’s Summary

IT security consultant with broad experience in development, audit, and managment issues.

Well known researcher in the security community (rainbow tables), successful lecutrer at masters and PhD level

Philippe Oechslin’s Specialties:

IT Security strategies, policies (17799), audits
Vulnerability assessments, penetration testing
Cryptography
Training

Philippe Oechslin’s Experience

CEO and Founder

OS Objectif Sécurité SA

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

October 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)

CEO, Senior Consultant
Lecturer

EPFL

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

2001 — 2004 (3 years )

Creation and teaching of a masters level lecture on network security. Most popular lecture of programme, excellent student reviews

Research on advanced time-memory trade-offs. Invented a method based on "rainbow tables" that cracks windows passwords in seconds (ophcrack), now used in all major crackers on the market.

Collaborations with the Swiss Army and the local police.
Freelance IT Security Consultant
Philippe Oechslin Conseil en Sécurité Informatique (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer & Network Security industry)

March 2001 — September 2004 (3 years 7 months)

Security audits (penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, architecture and process audit)
Creation of security policies
Customized in-house IT security training
Senior IT security consultant

Netexpert

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

1998 — 2001 (3 years )

Head of a team of more than 10 engineer
Created new rules and incentives to increase efficiency

Senior IT Security Consultant.
-penetration tests
-design and deployment of secure perimeters
-creation of security policies

Hands on work with Cisco (IOS, PIX), Checkpoint, Solaris, W2k, TrendMicro, Linux, Squid, sendmail, apache
Product Manager

Lightning Instrumentation SA

(Computer & Network Security industry)

1997 — 1997 (less than a year)

Designed the new set of products of the company.
Worked both in development (writing a webserver for remote management of routers) and in sales (present at CeBit and other fairs) to know what we were able to do and what the market wanted.
Managed product launches (coordintation of documentation, software versions and sales contracts)
Postdoc researcher

University College of London

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

January 1997 — December 1997 (1 year )
PhD Student

EPFL

(Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 1991 — December 1996 (6 years )
Researcher

Bell Labs

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Computer Networking industry)

January 1991 — December 1992 (2 years )

R&D work in high speed networking. Got two US patents for advanced ATM network interface chip (T7652 ATM Layer Interface)
Exchange student

Unicamp

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

May 1989 — October 1989 (6 months)