Bilal Retiat

Cyber Security Consultant

Biography

Thinking bad and doing good while keeping things simple.

I’m Bilal Retiat, a Cyber Security Consultant, A perpetual learner who enjoys building and breaking things with an appetite for sharing and spreading knowledge.

Interests

Learning and Reading
CTF
Exploit Development
Reverse Engineering
Coding
Cryptography

Education

Master's Degree in Computer Science, 2020
Ecole Supérieure en Informatique 08 Mai 1945

Experience

Cyber Security Consultant

Semi Government Entity

Mar 2023 – Present Abu Dhabi, UAE

Cyber Security Consultant

Realistic Security

Oct 2020 – Dec 2022 Algiers, Algeria

Leading client projects in various sectors: banking, oil & gas and insurance.
Perform infrastructure and application penetration tests across public and private networks.
Conduct phishing campaign simulations to test companies’ incident detection and response capabilities
Perform adversary emulation based on attacks from the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Provide security assessment reports with recommended security fixes.
Conduct incident response and threat hunting.
Security solutions integration

Crypto Team Member

OpenMined

Apr 2020 – Sep 2020 Remote

Develop TenSEAL, a library for doing homomorphic encryption operations on tensors.
Doing research and experimentation on applying homomorphic encryption to deep learning.

Cyber Security Intern

Deloitte

Feb 2020 – Apr 2020 Algiers, Algeria

Perform web application assessments and network penetration testing.
Document and report findings, along with remediation recommendations and validation.

System Administrator

Realistic Security

May 2019 – Dec 2019 Remote

Build a penetration testing training lab.
Ensure proper security and configurations for the infrastructure for production servers.
Manage and maintain multiple virtual machines.

Cyber Security Intern

El Djazair Information Technology (ELIT)

Sep 2018 – Oct 2018 Algiers, Algeria

Performed WAF evasion and bypass tests on FortiWeb.

Honors & Awards

Algeria National Cyber Security CTF

CyberTalents Aug 2020

1st Place

CSAW’19 CTF Hacking Competition Final (MENA)

New York University Center for Cybersecurity Nov 2019

2nd Place

Arab Regional Cyber Security CTF

CyberTalents Sep 2019

2nd Place

Algeria National Cyber Security CTF

CyberTalents Jul 2019

1st Place

CSAW’17 CTF Hacking Competition Final (MENA)

New York University Center for Cybersecurity Nov 2017

3rd Place

Projects

TenSEAL is a library for doing homomorphic encryption operations on tensors, built on top of Microsoft SEAL. It provides ease of use through a Python API, while preserving efficiency by implementing most of its operations using C++.

Malware Revealer

Malware Revealer is a malware classification framework, designed primarily for malware detection, it contains a modular toolset for feature extraction, as well as pre-trained models and a ready to use web API for making predictions.

OpenClass

OpenClass is a web app that promote information sharing through organized workshops.

ESI-LINUX

ESI Linux is a linux distribution made for ESI-SBA ( Ecole supérieure d’informatique - Sidi Bel Abbes) students particularly, it provides all the necessary tools for their curriculum.