
Sebastien Gioria
AI Cyber Security / AI Cyber Guardian / CyberSecurity Purple Team / DevSecOps / OWASP & CSA France Leader
Salary / Daily rate
Bordeaux, France
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Book with me : - 30mns=> https://calendar.app.google/piSiHMiuWZsBCN7z7 - 1h => https://calendar.app.google/Rmq3dxUVJho5xwuq8 With over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and application security, I serve as the Founder and Board Member of the Cloud Security Alliance France. My mission is to promote cloud security and foster cultural integration in the field of AI and cloud technologies across France. My efforts are supported by recognized certifications such as CCSK and Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals, which underscore my dedication to advancing robust security practices in the industry. At Lectra, I have contributed to securing Industry 4.0 solutions for more than five years. My responsibilities encompass leading DevSecOps programs, ensuring cloud services security, and overseeing bug bounty initiatives. I have also facilitated global R&D training, conducted platform audits, and driven security-by-design initiatives across cloud, IoT, and hardware products. My expertise includes generative AI, risk evaluation, and fostering best practices in cybersecurity.
Work experience
Teacher
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers - Cnam
Apr 2026 - Present
7 months
69340 Francheville, France
Enseignant sur le cours SEC106 | Analyses de sécurité : vulnérabilités et attaques
AI Cyber Guardian | Cybersecurity & AI Systems Advisor
AI Cyber GuardianFreelance
Jan 2026 - Present
10 months
European Union
L'IA n'attend pas. Votre sécurité, si ? AI Cyber Guardian —Aider les entreprises à ne pas se faire dépasser par les systèmes qu'elles déploient. Le terrain : la sécurité des systèmes IA — agents, Gen AI, LLM, MCP — combinée à une expertise profonde en cybersécurité applicative, DevSecOps et threat modeling. 🎓 Formations pour devs, archis et équipes sécu — risques IA, prompt injection, supply chain, data leakage 🛡️ Threat modeling sur vos architectures IA (STRIDE, PASTA, DREAD) 🔧 Conception et développement d'outils de contrôle et d'audit IA 📋 Conformité OWASP LLM Top 10 · EU AI Act · ANSSI 📩 Vous construisez avec l'IA ? Parlons sécurité.
Founder and Board member
Cloud Security Alliance
Oct 2025 - Present
1 year 1 month
69340 Francheville, France
Founder and board member of the Cloud Security Alliance France Building the future of the AI & Cloud Security in France - Promote the Cloud Security in France - Develop the cultural adhesion
Technology / CyberSecurity Architect & DevSecOps
Lectra
Jun 2020 - Present
6 years 5 months
33610 Cestas, France
• Led the security initiatives for Lectra's 4.0 offers, focusing on design, secure development, and cloud security. • Spearheaded the DevSecOps program and managed cloud services security, ensuring robust operational integrity. • Directed the Bug Bounty program and conducted comprehensive audits of software, cloud, and hardware platforms. • Trained global R&D teams on security best practices, serving as the primary point of contact across regions.
Occasional Author
Les Éditions Diamond
Jan 2015 - Present
11 years 10 months
Worlds End, Waterlooville PO7 4QU, UK
Writing Articles for Les Editions Diamonds : OWASP Zap Proxy - HS 76 GnuLinuxMag NodeJS == Sécurité ? - HS 85 - GnuLinuxMag
Legal and Forensics Expert / Expert Judiciaire Informatique
Cour d'appel de Poitiers
Jan 2015 - Present
11 years 10 months
25040 Europa, Province of Brescia, Italy
Je suis Expert Judiciaire Informatique Pres la cour d'appel de Poitiers dans les catégories Informatique, Internet, Telecoms
Freelance Security Consultant
Oct 2010 - Present
16 years 1 month
WorldWide
Senior Cyber-Security Expert / Specialized in AI, Cloud and Applications
Jan 2012 - Present
14 years 10 months
WorldWide
I do CyberSecurity to enable your organisation to be secured at scale and deliver values. Expertize in a lot of subject around cybersecurity in cloud/Artificial intelligence /application/WebApplication/SDLC - Code Review - Pentesting (white or black box) - Developer cybersecurity coaching - Mobile Application security - Secure development process - POC of products and platforms - ....
Cyber Security Coach and Instructor
Oct 2010 - Present
16 years 1 month
WordWide
Comme je le dis régulièrement, je lis du code et aide a le construire sécurisé. Si vous avez été hacké, je vous aiderai a ce que cela ne se refasse pas, et surtout de voir d'ou vient le probleme. Je délivre régulièrement des cours en Francais et en Anglais sur site ou a distance : - How to use OWASP Materials (books, code, tools), to secure you're SDLC - 1 or 2 days - Application Security for Executive - 2 hours - Application Security for Manager - 1 day - Application Security for Project Manager - 1 day - Secure Coding for Java - 2 days - Secure Coding for PHP - 2 days - Secure Coding for Android Platform - 2 Days - Secure Coding for IOS Platform - 2 Days - Secure Coding for IoT Plateform - 1 day - Secure Coding for JavaScript and Node.JS - 2 Days - Secure Mobile Developement for Project Manager - 1day - Secure Mobile Developement (generic) - 2 Days - Designing your code patterns to be hacker-proof - 1 day - Web Application Security for the project Manager - 1 day - Web Application Security and the OWASP Top10 - 1 day Ces cours aident dans les besoins réglementaires tels que le PCI-DSS a répondre à vos exigences de sécurité et de formation . Plus d'informations par mail http://eepurl.com/bLcUI5
OWASP
Oct 2006 - Present
20 years 1 month
WorldWide
French Chapter Leader
Oct 2006 - Present
20 years 1 month
WorldWide
As the french leader, my goal is to develop the knowledge of application security in the french community (france, canada, ...). For this I'm : - spending time to share OWASP and Application Security in public and private conferences. - spending time to translate some docs (Top10, Newsletters, ...) - spending tim on some project. See OWASP SonarQube Project, OWASP ISO Project, ...
Global Education Committee
Jan 2010 - May 2013
3 years 5 months
WorldWide
Member of the committe. Developing French partnership with University. Helping French community with providing contacts and link to OWASP Fundation Representation of OWASP in Public Conferences and training. In April 2013, Global OWASP Committee disolve to be OWASP Global Initiatives
Senior Application Security engineer
Ivalua
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
4 months
69340 Francheville, France
Owner & Principal Expert
AppSecFR
Apr 2016 - Jul 2020
4 years 4 months
WorldWide
AppSecFR is a security company specialized in Application Security. Most customers names are under NDA, but I can name some of : - Insurance : Generali, Macif, Aviva, Axa ,... - Bank : bnp Paribas, credit agricole, crédit mutuel,younited crédit .... - Development firms : GFI, infotel, Umanis, SII, 3DS(Dassault systèmes) ,aubay , .... - Web and startup : oui.sncf, nuxeo, cultural, .. - Others : IRCEM, CSA, orange, symfony eyc, OCP, - Traditional Services on Application Security : => Pentesting => Code Review => Threat Modeling - Application Security Consulting - Application Security Coaching - Application Security Training - Application Security SAAS platform (audit, code review, dashboard, ...) We have Application Security consultants/partners in France, Switzerland, Benelux, IT, UK, US, Canada I'm working closely with some application security vendors and can help you to integrate it on your applications security process.
Senior application security engineer
Crédit Agricole CIB
Mar 2018 - May 2020
2 years 3 months
69340 Francheville, France
Checkmarx environment setting up the remediation process setting up the appsec process remediation wiki tools around checkmarx international environment regulations: DFS500, LPM, payments auditing projects devs environment :Java , C, C++, Python, php, C#, Vb.net
CTO
ALTURA SAS
Apr 2016 - Mar 2020
4 years
Paris Area, France
Senior application security engineer
Aviva
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
1 year 1 month
69340 Francheville, France
checkmarx environment trainings appsec process remediation coaching devs devs environment: java, php, c/c++
Senior application security engineer
Generali
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
1 year 1 month
69340 Francheville, France
fortify sca and asc environment training remediation coaching devs devs environment : java
Instructor
Learning Tree International
Jul 2010 - Jul 2016
6 years 1 month
Author and trainer of some course : - Course 364H : Secure Coding in C (French specific course; ask me for TOC) - Course 419Z : Secure Coding in Java (French specific course ask me for TOC) Trainer on : - Course 940 - Securing Web Applications, Services and Servers: Hands-On : http://www.learningtree.com/courses/940.htm - Course 2781- Mobile Application and Device Security: Hands-On : http://www.learningtree.com/courses/2781.htm -Course 2055 - Digital Forensics: Windows System and Mobile Investigations : http://www.learningtree.com/courses/2055/digital-forensics-windows-system-and-mobile-investigations/
Expert Senior
Advens
Sep 2013 - Mar 2016
2 years 7 months
Lille and Paris
Advens is a company specialized in managed cyber-security. Innovation and Technology@Advens ispart of Technical Direction for new services, solutions for our customers. My job consists to : - Digital / Network agitator - Represent Advens at conferences and associations. - Assist customers on application security - Training on Securing your Code (C/C++, Mobile, IoT, Java, PHP, ...) - Testing new tools, methods, and more on Application Security - Conduct code review, pentesting on application for customers (Web, mobiles, ...)
Member
CLUSIF (Club de la sécurité des systèmes d'information français)
Jan 2007 - Mar 2016
9 years 3 months
- Groupe leader "Application Security" I'm involve in some study you can find on the CLUSIF webSite : - MIPS (Threat and Security Practice in France) - Vulnerability Management - ISO
Head of Information Technology Security and Audit
Groupe Y
Oct 2007 - Jan 2013
5 years 4 months
69340 Francheville, France
I was leading the IT & Security Audit branch in a Legal auditing company. Working with Financial audit , accountant & lawyer as well for other customers. Starting the branch from scratch in 2007. - Marketing services, customer sales and services delivery. => IT Audit : ISACA standard, SOX, ... => Security audit => PenTesting => Risk analysis => Security expertize => Forensics => Software auditing => Account auditing for legal review Revenue growth : +20% 2009, +20%2010, +10% 2011, +15% 2012 Company was based in south of France (Niort, near the most big insurance) and got office in : - Paris - Poitiers - Nantes - La roche sur Yon. Some of the projects done: - Security Code Review for an insurance - IT Auditing with the COBIT standards for an insurance - IT Project auditing for a bank - Pentesting of the new partners extranet for a health company.
Member
OzSSI
Jul 2009 - Jan 2012
2 years 7 months
Pour faire face à la menace sur les systèmes d’information numériques, la capacité de l’État doit être renforcée tant au niveau central que local. Parmi les nombreuses mesures annoncées dans le Livre blanc sur la défense et la sécurité nationale, il a été décidé, en complément de la création de l’ANSSI, la mise en place au niveau de chaque zone de défense et de sécurité d’un observatoire zonal de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (OzSSI). Ces observatoires, créés par le ministère de l’Intérieur, ont pour mission de relayer, sur l’ensemble du territoire national, les mesures prises pour améliorer la sécurité des systèmes d’information. À cette fin, ils animent un réseau largement ouvert à l’ensemble des acteurs concernés : échelons déconcentrés de l’Etat, collectivités territoriales, organismes ayant une mission de service public, entreprises et opérateurs privés, etc...
Independant Education Consultant
Cegos
Jan 2005 - Jul 2009
4 years 7 months
Was in charge of some course like : - PERL programming - Shell programming - Linux/Unix administration - pentesting and countermeasures - Cisco courses - security courses
Documentation Project Leader
"The FreeBSD Project"
Sep 1999 - Jan 2009
9 years 5 months
Was the principal contact for all the translations in French of the FreeBSD documentation project. Contact in France for the translation of the BSDCertification group See www.FreeBSD-fr.ORG for more details of the project
Owner/CEO/Founder
DoIngSoft
Jan 2005 - May 2008
3 years 5 months
69340 Francheville, France
Security services Security appliances Open-source Consulting Security Consulting
Senior Security Engineer
MAAF Assurances
Sep 2006 - Mar 2008
1 year 7 months
Working on the security team with the CSO for : - security politics (ISO 27XXX view) - business continuity - pen-testing - internal audit - legals issues (Solvency 2, CNIL, ..) - risk analysis - support/expertise of security for architecture and production team
CTO/Founder/Owner & Technical Manager
Niv2.COM
Jun 2003 - Dec 2007
4 years 7 months
CTO and CSO for a value added hosting company.
Director
ETNA
Jul 2005 - Oct 2006
1 year 4 months
e-learning University of Technology in the IONIS Group (EPITA/EPITECH) Course planning and validation Relationship with the professors. Validation of their courses Relationship with the enterprises. Modification of the course, relationship with students Internal procedures Organisation Project leader of the e-learning system
IT Security Project Manager
Credit Agricole SA
Feb 2002 - Oct 2005
3 years 9 months
I was : - Driving deployment project in security - Driving auditing project - Making risk analyze for the Telecom and Production services
CTO
British Telecom
Jul 1998 - Mar 2002
3 years 9 months
My jobs was to : - Driving a smal staff of manager in network, security, systems and applications. - Doing pre-sales - Designing and validating new architectures for customers and for internal use - Helping Sales guys to design the catalogue of services
CTO
Francenet
Jan 1998 - Jan 2002
4 years 1 month
Assist customers with their architecture Helping Pre-Sales for bidding Maintain and evolve IT architecture
Security consultant
Dune Concept
Jan 1997 - Jul 1998
1 year 7 months
Setting up a new offer Security Consulting
Education
Learning Tree Intl - France
Instructor, 940 - Securing Web Applications, Services and Servers: Hands-On
2010 - Present
16 years 10 months
Activities and societies: Instructor
Learning Tree Intl - France
Course 2781, Mobile Application and Device Security
2012 - Present
14 years 10 months
Grade: Instructor
Activities and societies: Instructor
EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
BAC + 5, Systems/Security and Network
1994 - 1997
3 years 1 month
EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
Master of Science (MS), Network and Security
1994 - 1997
3 years 1 month
IUT du Montet
Bac +2, Génie Electrique et Informatique Industrielle
1992 - 1994
2 years 1 month
CISSP Class from auditware June 2007
Licenses & certifications
API Security Fundamentals '25 (2 hours)
Issued: Mar 2026
LFEL1012: Secure AI/ML-Driven Software Development
Issued: Mar 2026