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Cédric BLANCHER
- E-mail: blancher@cartel-securite.fr (mailto:blancher@cartel-securite.fr)
- Web: http://sid.rstack.org/
- Blog: http://sid.rstack.org/blog/
- Born on 27th of February 1976 in Limoges
- French nationality
Master of Science (diplôme d'ingénieur) at ENST de Bretagne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_nationale_sup%C3%A9rieure_des_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9communications_de_Bretagne) (website (http://www.enst-bretagne.fr/), 2001)
Research Engineer in IT Systems and Networks Security
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedric)
My LinkedIn profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedric)
Education
- 1996-2000: MSc at ENST Bretagne.
Spoken Languages
- French (mother tongue)
- English (bilingual, lectures and talks given in english), 945 at TOEIC (http://www.toeic.eu/)
Employment History
EADS France, Innovation Works (Suresnes)
Since 2004/11/02
Research Engineer and Head of Computer Security Research Lab (IW/SE/CS)
- Research and development.
- Penetration testings
- Trainings.
Context: network protocols security proof, security of wired and wireless network communications, security of embedded systems.
Arche (Les Ulis)
From 2003/07/15 to 2004/10/31
IT systems and networks security consultant
- Consultancy
- Audits and penetration testings
- Trainings
- Security pre-sales
Cartel Sécurité (ex. Cartel Informatique, Paris)
http://www.cartel-securite.fr/
From 2000/11/09 to 2003/07/02
IT systems and networks security consultant
- Consultancy and solutions deployment
- Audit and penetration testing
- Trainings
- Free Software promotion
Startem (Groupe Datops, ex. CMC, Paris)
From 1999/09/15 to 2000/09/29
Chief of IT department
- IT Security chief
- Teacher at CELSA trainings
- LAN, Internet access and services deployment
CMC (Paris)
From 1999/04/15 to 1999/09/14
Trainee at IT department
- Responsible for "Year 2k" project
- Study for Internet access deployment
- Network and system administrator
ENST Bretagne (Brest)
1997/09 to 2000/03
New student LAN deployement at the Maison des Élèves (http://resel.enst-bretagne.fr/) of ENST Bretagne (250 student workstations)
- New ethernet backbone, internal services, firewalling on GNU/Linux plateforms
- Day to day technical helpdesk and training for students
From 1998/07 to 1998/08
Trainee at IT departement (http://www-info.enst-bretagne.fr/)
- Study on smartcard based billing system for ENST Bretagne restaurant (Restaurant Administratif de Kernevent)
Contributions
Software
- Wifitap: a WiFi communication tool based on traffic injection written in Python (http://www.python.org/)
- Patch for ebtables (http://ebtables.sourceforge.net/) ARP match
- Patch for aireplay (http://www.aircrack-ng.org/) FromDS frame support
Lectures and trainings
- Since 2003/09: Professor in CISI MSc (http://www.cryptis.fr/) for Limoges University (http://www.unilim.fr/).
IT systems and networks security (24h). - Since 2004/09: Professor in SSI MSc (http://www.esiea.fr/ms-sis) for ESIEA (http://www.esiea.fr/).
IT networks security (21h). - From 2004/06/28 to 2004/07/09: Teacher at CEA-INRIA-EDF IT Summer School (http://ecole-ete.bruyeres.cea.fr/Archives/2004/ecole-informatique.html).
IT Security training for 35 trainees during two weeks, with lectures, practical studies and conferences.
IT networks security (6h) and security evaluation (3h). - Since 2001/06/11: INTIF (http://intif.francophonie.org/) (Bordeaux), part of AIF (http://agence.francophonie.org/) (Paris).
GNU/Linux security teacher and IT consultant.- From 2005/10/13 to 2005/10/17: GNU/Linux security training for the second Rencontres Africaines du Logiciel Libre (RALL 2005, Free Software Meeting for Africa) in Libreville, Gabon, with Frédéric Raynal (http://www.security-labs.org/)
- From 2004/09/27 to 2004/10/1: GNU/Linux security training for the first Rencontres Africaines du Logiciel Libre (http://agence.francophonie.org/actualites/nouvelle.cfm?der_id=510) (RALL 2004, Free Software Meeting for Africa) in Ouagadougoug, Burkina Faso, with Frédéric Raynal (http://www.security-labs.org/)
- From 2003/10/13 to 2003/10/18: GNU/Linux security training in Antananarivo, Madagascar, with Guillaume Valadon (http://guillaume.valadon.net/).
- From 2001/06/11 to 2001/06/16: GNU/Linux security training in Lomé, Togo, with Laurent Oudot (http://www.rstack.org/oudot/).
- Others
- Various WiFi security traingings (SyScan'06, Cansecwest/core06, Eusecwest/core06, etc.)
Articles (cf. Contributions)
MISC Magazine (http://www.miscmag.com/)
- Special Issue 1 (2007/10), Cartographie réseau à distance : remote network topology discovery technics.
- MISC 30 (2007/03), Attaque de WEP par fragmentation: description of a 802.11 fragmentation based attack against WEP.
- MISC 21 (2005/09), Les limites du filtrage réseau: network flows filtering technics limits.
- MISC 18 (2005/03), Anonymisation, written with Arnaud Guignard: anonymizing systems basis and study of email and TCP anonymization tools.
- MISC 17 (2005/01), Filtrage applicatif, les cas des clients Web, de la messagerie et du peer-to-peer: filtering technics for common applications and client protection.
- MISC 13 (2004/05), Filtrage de niveau 2, le firewalling au plus bas niveau: Layer 2 filtering functionalities for network protection.
- MISC 12 (2004/03), La sécurité des réseaux 802.11, quoi de neuf depuis un an: WPA and 802.11i improvements for WiFi network security.
- MISC 11 (2004/01), EAP, l'authentification sur mesure: EAP and 802.1x authentication.
- MISC 9 (2003/09), Du bon usage du traceroute, ou comment faire parler les infrastructures réseau en jouant avec le champ TTL: advanced tracerouting technics for network architectures discovery.
- MISC 6 (2003/03), Faiblesses des réseaux sans-fil, written with Daniel Polombo: WiFi networks flaws exploitation.
- MISC 3 (2002/07), Jouer avec le protocole ARP, ou tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur ARP sans oser le demander, written with Éric Detoisien and Frédéric Raynal: ARP based attacks for network flaws interception.
See website http://sid.rstack.org/arp-sk/
Linux Magazine France (http://www.linuxmag-france.org/)
- Special issue 17 (2003/11), Le noyau et le réseau, comment repousser les limites de la connectivité: Linux kernel network functionalities.
- Special issue 16 (2003/09), Patcher son noyau, ou l'art de ne pas s'enfuir en courant à la simple évocation du mot "patch": practical guide to kernel sources patching and conflicts resolution.
- Special issue 13 (2003/01), Les firewalls personnels, principes, atouts et limites: personal firewalls description and limits.
- Special issue 12 (2002/09), Netfilter en profondeur, les secrets du pare-feu selon Linux: Netfilter, Linux 2.4 and further kernels, internal mechanisms.
Symposium sur la Sécurité des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (http://www.sstic.org/)
- Third edition (2005/06), Protocoles réseau, grandeur et décadence: network trafic redirection gainst major network protocols.
- First edition (2003/06), Atouts et limites du modèle de sécurité du pare-feu personnel: personal firewalls security principles, implementation, integration and limits analysis.
Conferences and talks (cf. Contributions)
- 2008/03/12-2008/03/14: Source Boston 2008 (http://sourceboston.com/), Boston, United States.
Network de-perimetrisation concept and security implications. - 2007/10/30-2007/10/31: Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2007 (http://bellua.com/bcs/asia07.index.html), Jakarta, Indonesia.
Aircraft onboard systems security, with Pascal Andrei.
Local networks authenticated access and associated services. - 2007/06/14: Smart WIP Club, Paris, France,
Discussion around Skype (http://www.skype.net/) security issues. - 2007/05/22: JSSI 2007 (http://www.ossir.org/jssi/), Paris, France.
Blogs and security, with Éric Hazane. - 2007/05/10: Éducation Nationale CISO annual meeting, Paris, France.
Wi-Fi captive portals limitations. - 2007/04/23-2007/04/25: 2nd Wireless Security Conference, Singapore.
Lessons learnt from eight years of Wi-Fi security.
Workshop on Wi-Fi security history. - 2007/04/06-2007/04/07: JSSIC 2007 (http://e-ucad.sn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=1), Dakar, Senegal.
Wi-Fi security. - 2007/03/19-2007/03/21: SecurityOpus 2007 (http://www.securityopus.com), San Francisco, United States.
Wi-Fi security myths busting. - 2006/10/19-2006/10/21: Hack.lu 2006 (http://hack.lu/), Luxembourg.
Wi-Fi security, with Phillippe Tewen (http://wiki.teuwen.org/).
Lightning talk son Skype based botnets. - 2006/08/30-2006/08/31: Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2006 (http://bellua.com/bcs/asia06.index.html), Jakarta, Indonesia.
Open Wi-Fi networks vulnerabilities.
Panel discussion (Un)ethical Hacking... where is the line? - 2006/06/16-2006/06/18: Recon 2006 (http://recon.cx/), Montreal, Canada.
Lightning talk on Skype based botnets. - 2006/05/22: JSSI 2006 (http://www.ossir.org/jssi/), Paris, France.
Panel discussion Les nouvelles technologies de l'information : y aller ou non ? - 2006/02/20-2006/02/21: Eusecwest/core06 (http://eusecwest.com/), London, United Kingdom.
Lightning talk on Captive Portal bypass. - 2006/02/08-2006/02/10: SecureCon 2006 (http://securecon.unimelb.edu.au/), Melbourne, Australia.
WiFi networks attacks based on traffic injection. - 2005/11/15-2005/11/16: Pacsec/core05 (http://pacsec.jp/), Tokyo, Japan.
WiFi networks attacks based on traffic injection. - 2005/10/01-2005/10/02: Ruxcon 2005 (http://ruxcon.org.au/), Sydney, Australia.
WiFi networks attacks based on traffic injection.
Cf. Impressions of Ruxcon 2005 (http://www.rockyh.net/blog/2005/10/2/impressions-of-ruxcon-2005.html)
Cf. Ruxcon wrap up (http://blog.pentester.com.au/2005/10/ruxcon-wrap-up.html) - 2005/09/01-2005/09/02: SyScAN'05 (http://syscan.org/), Bangkok, Thailand.
WiFi networks attacks based on wireless trafic injection. - 2005/07/05-2005/07/09: LSM 2005 (http://rencontresmondiales.org/), Dijon, France.
WiFi networks attacks based on wireless trafic injection. - 2005/06/17-2005/06/19: Recon 2005 (http://recon.cx/), Montreal, Canada.
WiFi networks attacks based on wireless trafic injection.
Public release of Wifitap.
Cf. SANS ISC Handler Diary June 26th 2005 (http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2005-06-26)
Cf. Report from the trenches RECON conference in Montreal (http://www.professionalsecuritytesters.org/modules.php?name=News&new_topic=41) - 2005/06/01-2005/06/03: Symposium sur la Sécurité des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (http://www.sstic.org/) (SSTIC), Rennes, France.
Network traffic redirection against major Internet protocols.
Lightning talk about Wifitap, a WiFi communication tool based on traffic injection.
cf. HSC newsletter (http://www.hsc-news.com/): #11, July 2005 (http://www.hsc-news.com/archives/2005/000024.html)
cf. article in Réseaux et Télécom CSO (http://www.reseaux-telecoms.com/CSO): SSTIC 05, le hack noir vu par le hack blanc (http://www.reseaux-telecoms.com/cso_btree/05_07_01_124058_106/CSO/Newscso_view) - 2005/05/10: JSSI 2005 (http://www.ossir.org/jssi/), Paris, France.
Security risks linked to remote access and mobile computering - 2005/05/04-2005/05/06: Cansecwest/core05 (http://cansecwest.com/), Vancouver, Canada.
Security risks linked to remote access and mobile computering - 2005/03/21-2005/03/23: Eurosec 2005 (http://www.xpconseil.com/eurosec2005/), Paris, France.
Honeynet (http://www.honeynet.org/) technologies and tools for improving intrusion detection, with Philippe Biondi (http://www.secdev.org/) - 2005/02/07-2005/02/09: JIA 2005 (http://jia-iset-sfax.org/), Sfax, Tunisia.
Free Software for IT security - 2004/10/04-2004/10/07: Rencontres Africaines du Logiciel Libre (http://rall.abull.bf/) (RALL), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Improving IT security with Free Software tools, with Frédéric Raynal (http://www.security-labs.org/), as part of ISWS summit preparation workshop - 2004/06/02-2004/06/04: Symposium sur la Sécurité des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (http://www.sstic.org/) (SSTIC), Rennes, France.
Security risks linked to remote access and mobile computering
Cf. article in ZDNet.fr (http://www.zdnet.fr/): Le gratin de la sécurité en France ausculte les risques de l'informatique mobile (http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/technologie/0,39020809,39156107,00.htm)
Lightning talk on embedded systems usage for honeynets deployment and HoneyWRT project - 2004/03/25-2004/03/27: JIA 2004 (http://www.mediabox-tunisie.com/jia/), Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia.
Entreprise Web portal deployment using GNU/Linux and Free Software
Entreprise Web portal security - 2004/03/22-2004/03/24: Eurosec 2004 (http://www.xpconseil.com/eurosec2004/), Paris, France.
Honeypots farms concept and implementation using GNU/Linux, with Franck Veysset - 2004/02/10: OSSIR (http://www.ossir.org/), Paris, France.
Presentation of French Honeynet Project (http://www.frenchhoneynet.org/) group, members and actions, and focus on honeypots, farms with Franck Veysset - 2003/11/17-2003/11/20: Colloque National sur les Logiciel Libres, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Free Software for entreprises and administrations IT security
TV show Challenges about Free Software
See article (http://linuxfr.org/2003/11/22/14652.html) on LinuxFR (http://linuxfr.org/). - 2003/11/11: Install Party ENS Cachan, Cachan, France.
Linux kernel network capabilities - 2003/07/09-2003/07/12: Libre Software Meeting (http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/), Metz, France.
Lightning talks session organisation for security topic (http://wiki.ael.be/rmll2003/index.php/ThemeSecurite)
Layer 2 filtering using GNU/Linux tools (Netfilter (http://www.netfilter.org/)/ebtables (http://ebtables.sourceforge.net))
Free Software for IT security - 2003/06/10-2003/06/12: Symposium sur la Sécurité des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication (http://www.sstic.org) (SSTIC), Rennes, France.
Personal firewalls concept, implementation and limits
Cf. article in Transfert.net (http://www.transfert.net/): Les firewalls personnels sont loin d'être infaillibles (http://www.transfert.net/a8997). - 2003/05/21: Challenge Securitech (http://www.challenge-securitech.com/), Paris, France.
Local network security issues - 2003/05/11: Committee on Development Information (http://www.uneca.org/codi/) (CODI) of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
GNU/Linux for IT security and Netfilter - 2003/03/15: Journée du Logiciel Libre dans l'Éducation et la Sécurité (http://www.parinux.org/activites/installparty/JLLE_LEF.html), Orsay, France.
Discussion around Free Software and IT security, with Philippe Biondi (http://www.secdev.org/). - 2002/11/15: Groupe FRnOG (http://www.frnog.org/), Boulogne Billancourt.
Arp-sk (http://sid.rstack.org/arp-sk/) tool and ARP security issues, with Frédéric Raynal (http://www.security-labs.org/). - 2002/10/26-2003/10/27: Vitré On Line, Vitré, France.
Internet access security issues for end-users - 2002/07/09-2002/07/13: Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre (http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/) (Libre Software Meeting), Bordeaux, France.
ARP security issues: "Switched network security: a fairy tale..."
Why choose Free Software for security policy implementation ? - 2002/05/14: CLUSIF (http://www.clusif.asso.fr/) (CLUb de la Sécurité des systèmes d'Information Français), Paris, France.
GNU/Linux and 2.4 kernels improvements for IT security, with Philippe Biondi (http://www.secdev.org/). - 2001/12/11: CLUSIF (http://www.clusif.asso.fr/) (CLUb de la Sécurité des systèmes d'Information Français), Paris, France.
Intrusion demonstration with bouce and priviledge escalation, with Daniel Polombo. - 2001/07/04-2001/07/08: Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre (http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/) (Libre Software Meeting), Bordeaux, France.
Discussion around RIF project about software and documentation mirror servers en Africa
Misc.
- Since 2001/09
French speaking newsgroup fr.comp.securite (http://groups.google.fr/groups?hl=fr&group=fr.comp.securite) moderator. Further infos on http://fr.comp.securite.free.fr/.
- Since 2001/07
RIF project member: software and documentation mirrors installation in Africa, prsented at Libre Software Meeting (http://www.rencontresmondiales.org/) (Libre Software Meeting) with Laurent Oudot (http://www.rstack.org/oudot/) et Monique Michaud.
Leasures
- Iaido (http://www.cnkendo-da.com/iaido.htm)
- Basket ball (http://www.basketfrance.com/)
- Cinema
- Cooking and vin
- Travels





