About

Michel Oosterhof is an experienced security architect, specialising in cybersecurity, DevOps and DevSecOps. He realises value by combining technical expertise, organisational insight and commercial experience. Michel has over fifteen years of experience in information security functions in a range of industries, including finance, banking, oil and gas, consulting, high-tech, manufacturing and government.

He currently works at HashiCorp as a Regional Manager Solutions Engineering for commercial accounts in Asia-Pacific and Japan.

Michel has all-round and hands-on security experience in big data security analytics, security operations centres, threat intelligence, incident response, network security monitoring, identity management and fraud & risk. He holds a Master’s degree in Applied Physics and is certified as a CISM, CISSP, CISA and GCIH. Having lived and worked all across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Michel is a Dutch citizen and currently based in Singapore.

He communicates well at an executive level as a trusted advisor and works as well as on a deep technical level with analysts on security use cases.

Michel runs a popular open source project called Cowrie (https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie), a Python based SSH/Telnet honeypot, deception technology used to gather threat intelligence on various actors on the internet. He speaks on this topic at events like the HoneyNet Conference. Cowrie received Google Summer of Code sponsorship in 2019.