Roelof Temmingh
Roelof Temmingh has worked in cybersecurity and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) for more than 25 years. Trained as an engineer (B.Eng, 1995), he began his career in IT security and penetration testing, co-founding SensePost, one of the early security consultancies, which later became part of Orange Cyberdefense.
He went on to start Paterva, the company that created Maltego, widely used for data visualization and relationship mapping in OSINT investigations. More recently, he founded Vortimo and is currently building Ubikron.
Over the years, Roelof has given talks and training in many countries, sharing practical approaches to security and OSINT. He is known for creating tools that emphasize usability and real-world application rather than hype.
Session
Thinking is expensive: time and effort, the one budget you can't refill. So we buy discounts like heuristics, tidy stories, curated feeds, and now agents that decide for us. Every discount is rational. Every discount is also an attack surface, and for twenty years an industry has been optimizing against it: a kill chain running recon, exploit, and payload against human cognition, at machine speed, one operator per user. This talk maps that attack: who runs it, how, and why — then asks the harder question: what actually defends against it, and where those defenses could break.