He gained his BSc. at the FEI-STU in Bratislava and MSc in Computer Science at the Czech Technical University with a master’s thesis focused on ultra-secure systems. He holds many prestigious security certifications including CISSP and CEH, he is Slovak OWASP chapter leader, co-founder of Progressbar and SOIT organizations where he is responsible for IT security.
Pavol used to have regular presentations at various worldwide security conferences (in the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow, and Prague). In the past, he demonstrated vulnerabilities in the public transport SMS tickets in all major cities in Europe, together with his colleague Norbert Szetei he practically demonstratedvulnerabilities in Mifare Classic RFID cards. He has 14 years of experience in IT security, penetration testing, and security auditing, including social engineering and digital forensic analysis.
He is co-author of the OWASP Testing Guide v3, has a deep knowledge of the OSSTMM, ISO17799/27001 and many years experience in seeking vulnerabilities. He knows many programming languages (ASM, C, C++, XSLT, Perl, Java, PLSQL, Lisp, Prolog, and scripting languages) and operating systems. He is also focused on VoIP and interesting IT security research.
Jaroslav has a deep knowledge of low-level and high level programming languages. He is an expert in reverse engineering and has a detailed knowledge of Windows / Linux system architecture.
He is also a top specialist in architectural design and implementation of SAP systems. He has a knowledge of the OWASP Testing Guide, OSSTMM and a lot of experience in seeking vulnerabilities.
He is also focused on IT security research (smart card emulation via NFC phones).
He gained his MSc at the FIIT-STU in Bratislava with master thesis focused on Adaptive management of portable channel properties (module within the Linux kernel)
Roman worked more than 12 years as a software engineer and system administrator for a company developing web and mobile applications. He was responsible for analysis and development for applications running on PHP and ASP.NET. He was developing applications for content management and e-learning support, integrated systems for managing events in sports arenas, in WPF technology, and also CRM systems on the .NET platform. He has experience with agile methodologies and a complete software development process from design to operation.
Later, in a position of CTO, Roman gained practical experience in planning the technical aspects of the development, creation, and implementation of technology strategy and coordination of all technical stages of product development.
Concurrently with employment, in the years 2012-2014, he lectured on FMFI UK as an external lecturer teaching mobile application development on Android and Windows platforms.
He has knowledge of several programming technologies (ASP.NET – Web Forms, MVC, Web API, PHP, Javascript – both the server and the client, the development of mobile applications for Android or Windows Phone, shell programming in Bash or Powershell, C / C ++, assembler) and database systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL). He has experience in programming for the Linux kernel. He has years of experience in penetration testing of web and mobile applications, with ensuring the systems and implementation of IDS and IPS systems. He has an in-depth knowledge of the OWASP Testing Guide, OSSTMM and has experience with many security testing tools and exploit frameworks. He also has experience in preparing various IT security training and audits of the source code (i.e., according to the Microsoft SDL).
He currently works as a software engineer for a company operating in the Fintech sector and also as an IT security consultant at Nethemba.