Background

Pierre Pronchery is a Computer Science post-graduate (BSc, Oxford Brookes) and engineer (INSIA).

He has been active as a security consultant for over five years now.

With a broad culture of Operating System internals, software design and network architecture, he already assisted a number of customers in different situations and environments, in either research, development or assessment activities.

Detailed skills

Consultant profile

Skills

Implement a security process during the design, development, validation and maintenance phases of software and hardware products.

Security auditing

Weaknesses and defects can be identified, assessed, demonstrated, or better avoided in a number of situations.

Comprehensive reports are delivered either in English, French or German as required.

Software and network audits

  • source code audits (mainly C/C++)
  • gray- and black-box assessment
  • network penetration-testing

Reverse engineering

  • closed-source network protocols and applications
  • system software for embedded devices (firmware analysis...)
  • debugging facilities on hardware platforms (JTAG, serial consoles...)

Product development

The software developed is provided with complete source code.

Software engineering

  • system, client/server and commodity software
  • portable applications and user interfaces (C/Gtk+, SDL/OpenGL...)
  • tutorials, workshops, seminars...

Project guidance

  • quality assurance
  • security lifecycle
  • community development

List of customers

Customers

Online activity of Pierre Pronchery, either through DUEKIN or previous experience may have caught your attention already.

Bearstech

  • software developer (C/Gtk+, hackable:1)
  • embedded development workshops
  • open hardware evangelist (conferences)

VZnet Netzwerke Ltd.

  • security auditor

n.runs AG

  • senior security consultant

List of partners

Partners

DUEKIN is working closely with the following companies and individuals.

loopb-ack GbR

loopb-ack GbR gathers IT-Security freelancers.

undisclose

undisclose is freelancer Marco Lux.

synhetik

synhetik is freelancer Fabien Dombard.

List of projects

Projects

Remain constantly in touch with the reality of software development, new technologies and the evolution of the state of the art.

This can only be achieved through the study of existing designs, and implementation of innovative solutions.

NetBSD

netbsd logo

NetBSD is a portable and robust Operating System.

Consulting services

  • driver backports
  • source code audits
  • embedded development

DeforaOS

DeforaOS logo

DeforaOS is an experimental and innovative Operating System.

Desktop environment

  • full-featured graphical interface
  • portable software suite

Suitable for embedded systems

  • kernel-agnostic low-level libraries
  • finger-friendly user interface
  • smartphone environment

Research and prototyping

  • distributed applicative framework
  • static source code analysis
  • GSM security...

List of publications

Publications

The following resources are available for download.

Profile

Consultant profile (english)

Papers

Documentation for the AFULTab contest (english)

Workshops

Confidence in SMS, workshop given at 0sec in Bern on October 17th 2010.

Artwork

Miscellaneous files.