Khalil Sehnaoui was born on 23 May 1975 and is a Belgian-Lebanese information security consultant who specialises in the Middle-East and the founder and managing partner of Beirut-based Krypton Security.
15 Facts About Khalil Sehnaoui
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Khalil Sehnaoui is a member of the Chaos Computer Club, Europe's largest association of hackers.
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In 2021, Sehnaoui started an acting career by featuring in the TV mini series The Role and the TV series Al Hayba.
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Khalil Sehnaoui co-founded and is a managing partner at the security firm Krypton Security which helps test companies' security strengths, weaknesses, and potential loopholes.
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Khalil Sehnaoui is often called upon to comment in media about Information Security matters.
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Khalil Sehnaoui's father is the President of the Lebanese Order of Malta and his mother is a Middle-East painter.
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Khalil Sehnaoui attended College Stanislas in Paris as well as College Louise Wegman in Beirut, following which he earned a BA in Management from Universite Saint Joseph in Beirut as well as a Masters in Economics.
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Khalil Sehnaoui was featured in The Guardian's video series "The Power of Privacy" in 2015.
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In May 2017 Khalil Sehnaoui went viral on Twitter and the internet after tweeting about getting revenge on loud and rude customers in a coffee shop.
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Khalil Sehnaoui was featured on National Geographic in 2017 in the series Breakthrough, produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, Season 2 Episode 2, Cyber-Terror.
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In 2019, Khalil Sehnaoui was featured amongst 70 information security professionals in a book called "Tribe of Hackers", a collection of industry, career, and personal insights from cybersecurity luminaries.
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In 2015, there was a controversy when Khalil Sehnaoui identified that Silent Circle's warrant canary had been removed from their site.
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Khalil Sehnaoui was prominently featured in a video series by The Guardian about privacy risks and is often called upon to comment on recent Information Security news.
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Khalil Sehnaoui was one of the security specialists that helped debunk the myth of this tool, showing that it was just a "bad media mock-up to try and get some attention".
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Khalil Sehnaoui was released after being questioned and no charges were brought against him.