Matias Madou

Matias Madou, Co-Founder and CTO, Secure Code Warrior Matias Madou is a researcher and developer with more than 15 years of hands-on software security experience. He has developed solutions for companies such as HP Fortify and his own company Sensei Security. Over his career, Madou has led multiple application security research projects which have led to commercial products and boasts over 10 patents under his belt. When he is away from his desk, he has served as an instructor for advanced application security training courses and regularly speaks at global conferences including RSA Conference, Black Hat, DEFCON, BSIMM, OWASP AppSec, and BruCon. Madou holds a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Ghent University, where he studied application security through program obfuscation to hide the inner workings of an application.

Threat Modeling with AI: A Developer-Driven Boon for Enterprise Security

For companies running a modern, adaptive and defense-centered security program, threat modeling is not a new concept. In fact, it’s one of the core tenets of preventative cybersecurity best practices. Being able to find vulnerabilities within software or a network, map them out and remediate them – before an attacker ... Read More

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Security Degradation in AI-Generated Code: A Threat Vector CISOs Can’t Ignore

Matias Madou | November 14, 2025 | AI coding assistants, AI safety research, AI-generated code vulnerabilities, CISO priorities, code security study, developer upskilling, DevSecOps and AI, feedback loop security, Human/AI collaboration, iterative code degradation, LLM security risks, secure by design, Secure SDLC, Static Analysis, vulnerability introduction

A new study shows LLMs introduce more vulnerabilities with each code iteration, highlighting critical risks for CISOs and the need for skilled human oversight ... Read More

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Why Are APIs so Easy for Threat Actors to Exploit?

Matias Madou | October 10, 2023 | API security, Code, Data breach, developer, DEVOPS

Lax API security creates the perfect window of opportunity, often with a low barrier to entry. Cybercriminals are eager to exploit it ... Read More

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Suffering From a Surfeit of Security Tools

Matias Madou | August 5, 2022 | cybersecurity tools, DevSecOps, organizations, security

It’s almost ingrained in our collective psyche that more of a good thing is an even better thing. If you have one of something that you really like, then there is nothing wrong with having two or three, or even more. After all, you can’t have too much of a ... Read More

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On