#Episode

André Baptista is a hacker, co-founder and CTO at Ethiack, and an invited professor at the MSc in Information Security at the University of Porto and the Executive Master in Cybersecurity Management at Porto Business School.

From leading CTF teams to coaching the ECSC Portuguese squad, André has spent years turning offensive skills into structured, repeatable ways to break things before attackers do. As a former captain of the xSTF CTF team and a multi-time HackerOne MVH (H1-202 in 2018 and H1-702 in 2024), he bridges the gap between the hacker mindset, bug bounty, and real-world product security.

Passionate about sharing knowledge, André focuses on building culture: helping teams think like attackers, automate security testing, and bring continuous offensive validation into day-to-day development.

In this episode, we dive into:

How CTFs and competitions shaped his hacker mindset
Lessons from coaching the Portuguese team at ECSC
Bug bounty, HackerOne MVH, and turning reports into real security improvements
How Ethiack approaches continuous offensive security testing
Teaching the next generation of hackers and security leaders
Practical advice for anyone who wants to move from curiosity to serious hacking

Real stories. Real techniques. Real hackers.

Available on Spotify, YouTube, and r19.io

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