jtsec has been my first job, my first real professional experience. I never imagined I would learn, enjoy, and connect with people the way I did inside this company. For me it wasn’t just a company or a job. It was a family and a place where I grew up both personally and professionally.

On a personal level, I want to thank everyone I met at jtsec. I met a lot of people that were technical references to me, people I learned from every day.

Talking about my evolution in cybersecurity, I walked into jtsec as someone who hadn’t put any cybersecurity knowledge into practice (and also didn’t have a lot of knowledge in the field).

I was assigned to very complex projects since my start under one of jtsec’s core philosophies: you are capable of anything, and I evolved very fast from one project to another.

After some time at jtsec, I realised that mindset it’s the philosophy you need both in this type of job and in your life.

Over three and a half years, I got to learn things I never thought I’d master: binary exploitation, reverse engineering, EDR and driver analysis, hardware devices, medical devices, web applications, desktop applications, and honestly I’m probably forgetting stuff, but you get the idea.

I also went from being intimidated by disassemblers to working comfortably with tools like IDA and Binary Ninja, and doing my custom scripts.

I did not know what was Frida, but after all this time, I learnt to make my own custom Frida script to bypass advanced mobile RASPs and doing advanced mobile application security testing for banking apps.

Also I was able to work on some hardware projects, breaking the case and understanding what is behind their it, and using tools like Bus Pirate to craft specific payloads.

I’m very grateful for these years. I’ve seen my own growth and my other colleages’ growth and I’m genuinely proud of everything I accomplished at jtsec.

Thanks jtsec for giving me the opportunity to develop, both personally and professionally, the way I did.