Leon Schmidt
Consultant
Profil
Leon Schmidt obtained his master of science degree in Corporate IT Security and Computer Sciences from the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg in 2025. He contributed to several academic and open-source projects focused on cybersecurity, threat modeling, vulnerability analysis and software development, thus gaining valuable practical experience.
In 2020, Leon Schmidt started working at cirosec as a working student, and he has been a consultant since 2025. He has completed his bachelor’s thesis, in which he developed an API for the Common Security Advisory Framework 2.0, in collaboration with the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). His master’s thesis was written at cirosec, where he developed a system for extending the functionality of command and control agents during runtime.
Leon Schmidt’s activities at cirosec included the development of methods allowing to bypass BitLocker and of various tools for privilege escalation on Windows systems. In addition, he developed a hardware appliance for bypassing 802.1X NAC and an automated build system for malware, which are used for different projects like red-teaming operations. On top of that, Leon Schmidt consults cirosec’s customers, mainly on EDR and DevOps in the cloud environment.