Philippe Humeau graduated in 1999 as an IT security engineer from EPITA (Paris, France). He founded his first company right after school and dedicated it to red team penetration testing and high security hosting. He was also deeply involved in Magento’s community creation & animation in France and versed in eCommerce (wrote four books on the topic). After selling his previous company (NBS System), his eternal crushes for Cybersecurity and entrepreneurship led him to create a new company in 2020. CrowdSec was born, an open-source software editor behind the eponymous massively multiplayer firewall, leveraging both IP behavior & reputation to create a community and tackle the mass scale hacking problem.