Maurício Harley is a cybersecurity engineer and researcher with over 30 years of experience across SOHO environments, data centers, and cloud providers. He currently leads post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration efforts within the OpenStack ecosystem, serving as a core contributor and elected lead of a key management project. Throughout his career, he has held senior consulting roles in security and infrastructure across EMEA and Brazil, including application security reviews, threat modeling, penetration testing, incident response, and large-scale network and data center projects.
He is the author of an internationally published book on API penetration testing, technical reviewer of another book on cloud identity management, co-author of an academic book chapter, and author of technical articles published in information security magazines. He holds CCIE (Routing & Switching and Service Provider) and CISSP certifications, an MSc in Cyber Security. His interests include machine learning applied to security, threat hunting, reverse engineering, and privacy.
