Pieter Danhieux is the CoFounder/CEO of global security company Secure Code Warrior. In 2016, he was No. 80 on the list of Coolest Tech people in Australia (Business Insider) and awarded Cyber Security Professional of the Year (AISA - Australian Information Security Association).

Pieter is also a Principal instructor for the SANS Institute teaching military, government and private organization offensive techniques on how to target and assess organizations, systems and individuals for security weaknesses. He also serves as an advisory board member of NVISO, a cyber security consulting company in Europe. Before starting his own company, Pieter worked at Ernst & Young and BAE Systems. He is also one of the Co-Founders of  the annual Belgium security and hackerconference: BruCON.

He started his information security career early, as one of the youngest people in Belgium to  obtain Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification. He has now collected a whole range of cyber security certificates (CISA, GCFA, GCIH, GPEN, GWAP) and is currently one of the select few to hold the top certification GIAC Security Expert (GSE).a