Today's Secure-in-Mind episode features a discussion with (soon to be Dr.) Florian Hantke, a candidate in the pilot intake of the CyAN mentorship pilot programmed.

Florian is conducting advanced research on vulnerability management and information security trends as part of the secure web applications group at CISPA Helmholtz, a major German academic research network. He is an accomplished penetration tester, capture-the-flag contestant, and ethical hacker.

Among the topics we visit today are an overview of his current project on using "web archeology" - using web archives to evaluate past cybersecurity trends, Florian's views on the effectiveness of information security topics in German academia and how what it entails, and his recent experience in finding and reporting a number of embarrassing web vulnerabilities.

We talk about generational differences in spotting fraud and security issues, getting into cybersecurity as an area of interest and career choice, and more.

Florian's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-hantke-59ba0522b/ Website: https://fhantke.de/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fh4ntke

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security - https://cispa.de/

"You Call This Archaeology? Evaluating Web Archives for Reproducible Web Security Measurements" - https://swag.cispa.saarland/papers/hantke2023archaeology.pdf

Florian's blog post describing his experiences reporting web vulnerabilities in wedding photo sharing sites: https://fh4ntke.medium.com/till-breach-do-us-part-the-uninvited-guest-at-your-wedding-2aed35755456

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Original YouTube video: https://youtu.be/zwMSUbDeYfU

Intro/outro music courtesy of Studio Kolomna via Pixabay: https://pixabay.com/users/studiokolomna-2073170/