Jonathan Brossard

Jonathan Brossard is an Associate Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Paris, France), PhD candidate, and Researcher at the ISID laboratory of CEDRIC, teaching more particularly within the Chair of Cybersecurity. In parallel to his Academic activities, Pr. Brossard is the creator and CTO of the startup MOABI, a DeepTech company regularly awarded and acclaimed by the industry for its technological innovations. A globally recognized cybersecurity expert, he has participated in more than fifty conferences across the Planet, authoring original research. He is the inventor of several patents and author of open-source software, including the Witchcraft Compiler Collection (WCC) (available under Debian, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Kali Linux, etc.), popular among cybersecurity experts. Pr. Brossard published the first known attacks against Microsoft Bitlocker encryption software, as well as the first remote attacks targeting Microsoft Windows 10 and the Microsoft Edge web browser. His research on cyber security has been covered in numerous international media, such as Le Monde, the MIT Technology Review, and Forbes Magazine, which covered his "Proof of Concept" of Malware Rakshasa (the world's first Firmware Backdoor). He regularly participates in popularizing cybersecurity among the general public, providing expertise on subjects such as car hacking, the hacking of the French President by foreign secret services, or reviewing the documents made public by Edward Snowden. Before joining the CNAM, Pr. Brossard previously worked as Director of Security and Principal Engineer at Salesforce (San Francisco, United States). He has also worked in Australia, India and lived in Brazil. Pr. Brossard is finally recognized as a Pioneer in the French IT community for having created the pioneering international cybersecurity conferences in France, Hackito Ergo Sum (in 2009) and NoSuchCon (in 2013), as well as having been a member of the /tmp/lab, the first Hackerspace in France (2009). An Alumni of the Lycée Louis le Grand, Pr. Brossard is an Engineer, holds a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence and is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the CNAM. See also his PhD thesis and his profiles on ORCID, Github, Twitter or Linkedin.