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Adil Hafa

Adil Hafa

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Adil currently works as a CISO and he is a security expert with over 16 years of experience in a wide range of industries: Retail including online food ordering, finance including exchanges, defense and government.

Professional experience

Currently, Adil is the Chief Information Security Officer at Ödeal, a regional digital payment platform. Ödeal serves 125,000 merchants with its software and hardware based POS solutions.

His previous role was head of Global Security Testing at the global food ordering application, Delivery Hero. He was responsible for protecting Delivery Hero's systems, data, and customers from cyber threats. His team provided application security testing including dynamic application security testing (DAST) and penetration testing as well as red teaming, and bug bounty management for all Delivery Hero's platforms and applications.

Previously, he worked as a cyber security consultant, IT security tester and penetration tester

Education

Adil obtained an MSc degree in Computer and Information System Security / Information Security from İstanbul Şehir University in 2016.

Latest Articles from Adil

Cybersecurity
Benchmark
Aug 21

Top 10 DAST Tools: Benchmarking Results & Comparison

As a CISO, I have worked extensively with DAST tools. In evaluating the top solutions, I reviewed capabilities such as accuracy, detection performance by severity, and more. See below for a detailed breakdown of my key takeaways: Benchmark environments: 1. Holdout: Two privately built websites are used in the methodology to assess how effectively the…

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Aug 21

Top 3 Open Source Firewall Audit Tools Compared

Open-source firewall audit tools enable IT teams to assess whether their firewalls are properly configured without incurring high costs. However, mid-market and enterprise companies may explore closed-source firewall audit software for more comprehensive solutions. Explore the key players in open source firewall audit tools, providing a comprehensive overview of their features, benefits and drawbacks: *…

Enterprise Software
Open World Evaluation
Aug 21

Top 5 Open Source MDM Software

Mobile devices are a significant source of business data breaches. While some companies require sophisticated closed-source MDM software, others prefer open-source solutions to protect their devices. Drawing upon my 17 years of cybersecurity experience, here is the top open-source MDM software to help you choose the right option: Features comparison (Part 1): Features comparison (part…

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Aug 21

Top 6 Open-Source Log Analysis Tools: Wazuh, Graylog & More

As a CISO in a highly regulated industry with ~2 decades of cybersecurity expertise, I have worked with multiple SIEM-like log analysis platforms. From those, I picked the top 6 open-source log analysis tools. In evaluating these tools, I focused on key factors such as log collection flexibility, real-time event detection, scalability, and support for…

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Aug 3

Analysis of Top 3 Open Source Firewall Management Tools

Substantial costs of data breaches, which average over $4 million globally. To safeguard their sensitive data and firewall security, businesses rely on firewall security management services. If you are *Based on data from B2B review platforms **Compatibility might be possible via some layer, such as virtualization. You may explore details regarding in the following sections.…

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Jul 28

Top 5 Open Source SOAR Tools

I’ve spent nearly two decades as a CISO in heavily regulated industries long enough to have tested, deployed, and ripped out more SOAR tools than I’d like to admit. Most open-source options look promising on documentation, but fall apart when you actually run them in production. SOAR tools rely on accurate endpoint data and actionable…