Philippe Baumgart

Philippe Baumgart is a senior cybersecurity expert with more than 21 years of experience, specialising in digital forensics, incident response, threat intelligence, cyber crisis management and offensive security. Mr. Baumgart boasts a proven track record in developing and deploying advanced cybersecurity services, managing teams and driving successful client engagements across various industries.

Throughout his career, Mr. Baumgart has led numerous high-profile incident response engagements, overseeing crisis coordination, endpoint detection and response (‘EDR’) deployments, digital forensics and incident response (‘DFIR’) investigations, containment efforts and Active Directory recovery. He has also built threat intelligence capabilities and demonstrated expertise in offensive security.

As a former partner at a Big Four organisation, Mr. Baumgart served as the Head of Computer Security Incident Response Team (‘CSIRT’) Crisis & Resilience, leading a team certified by ANSSI (the French Cybersecurity Agency). His expertise spans incident response, threat intelligence, and complex offensive security assessments, including security operations centre (‘SOC’) evaluations, threat-led penetration testing, red teaming, threat hunting and internal and application penetration testing.

Before leading the CSIRT, Mr. Baumgart spearheaded several advanced persistent threat (‘APT’) simulations and SOC assessments in the aerospace and defence sectors, as well as global security assessments for the automotive and retail industries.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Baumgart led a global offensive security programme in the financial sector at another Big Four firm. He began his professional journey by integrating open-source security solutions (lightweight directory access protocol (‘LDAP’) and public key infrastructure (‘PKI’)) for the Secretariat-General for National Defence and Security (‘SGDSN’) and French ministries.