Inoffensive Technologies is a vendor-independent Information Security Consultancy based in Berlin, Germany.
Driven by Sergio ‘shadown’ Alvarez, a well known expert in the IT Security area with +15 years of experience in the industry of security auditing, penetration testing, forensics, Incident Response and Architecture Review. Who has conducted several consulting, training and assessment assignments to international enterprises, financial institutions and government entities.
During his time in the security industry he has conducted network and application penetration tests, source code audits, forensic analysis, security tools development, application security design, secure network design, home banking design and testing, protocol analysis/testing and has delivered numerous trainings, seminars and presentations.
Excellent interpersonal, organisational, and communication skills.
Proven ability as a security researcher and as a developer of powerful security tools to help and also automate the process of finding vulnerabilities, runtime analysis and exploitation.
Discoverer of numerous critical security vulnerabilities in widely deployed software like Apple Quicktime, Apple MacOSX, Apple iPhone, Apple TV, and pretty much all antivirus software out there. Regular speaker at well known computer security conferences like CanSecWest, Chaos Communication Congress, among others. Excellent leadership skills and team work demonstrated as head of Security Research at n.runs AG.