Matias Madou is a security researcher at Fortify's Security Research Group, which is responsible for building security knowledge into Fortify's products. His work focuses on developing new techniques to detect vulnerabilities. Matias 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. During his Ph.D., he collaborated with top research and industry players in the field of program obfuscation.