About avantguard cyber security
Founded on August 10, 2021, avantguard cyber security offers technical security audits such as penetration tests, red teaming, and client audits. Thanks to our specialization and numerous certifications in this field, we are able to provide our services with the highest quality and have been privileged to count reputable companies among our clients since our inception. All services are carried out by our certified experts either at our location in Rapperswil SG or on-site at our clients' premises. We stand for proactive security in line with our motto: STRIKE BEFORE HACKERS.
Our Team
Pascal Sommer
Cyber Security Facilitator & Founder
BSc ETH CS, OSEP, OSCP, CRTL, CRTO, CRTP, CARTP, OPST
As a cyber security facilitator, Pascal supports organizations through every step of their cyber security transformation. This includes prioritization and planning of projects, scoping and especially their execution. He has a special focus on protection against realistic threats and practicable security, for which he brings sound and deep attacker knowledge.
Specialties: Threat Simulation, Microsoft Azure, Client Audit
Jann Lemm
Cyber Security Facilitator & Founder
BSc FH ST, OSCP, CRTP, CARTP, OPST
As a cyber security facilitator, Jann supports organizations through every step of their cybersecurity transformation. This includes prioritizing and planning projects, scoping them and, of course, executing them. Always with the goal of uncovering operational and conceptual risks, categorizing them, making them understandable and supporting with attacker knowledge during their remediation.
Specialties: Windows Internals, Web Application Security, Android Mobile Tests
Lorella Mistretta
Office Manager & Sales
Commercial Employee EFZ, Leadership SVF
Lorella Mistretta completed her apprenticeship as a Commercial Employee EFZ (Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training) in a leading Swiss manufacturing and trading company. She then worked for several years as a back office manager for a leading cyber security service provider in Switzerland. Based on her performance, she was promoted to Deputy Team Leader Backoffice and was entrusted with the management of the backoffice for over a year. As part of this promotion, Lorella Mistretta successfully completed the Leadership SVF course and is certified accordingly.
Specialties: Resource Management, Planning
Rinaldo Erens
Penetration Tester
System Engineer EFZ, OSCP
As a penetration tester, Rinaldo explores our customers' systems and checks them for vulnerabilities. Driven by curiosity, he gets involved with the individual target system. He is convinced that complexity increases the attack surface. In his seek after knowledge, he is able to uncover risks and thus reduce the existing attack surface. He also has over 10 years of experience as a technical consultant.
Specialties: GNU/Linux, Workload Automation, giving presentations and conducting trainings
Andrei Herasimau
Penetration Tester
MSc ETH CS
As a penetration tester, Andrei explores our customers' systems and checks them for vulnerabilities. During his studies at ETH Zurich, he was able to gain knowledge about secure software development, which he now uses in practice. With his experience in formal modeling of cryptographic protocols, as well as in software development, he can analyze the underlying causes of a vulnerability.
Specialties: Cryptography, Secure Development
Your Name?
Penetration Tester
Degree / OSCP / ...
Would you like to join our team as a penetration tester? Take a look at our advertised position. If you feel this appeals to you, don't hesitate to apply.
Note: We require good German language skills from all our applicants.