Linus Neumann

Head of Security Strategy
Security Research Labs (SRLabs), Berlin, Germany

Linus Neumann is the Head of Security Strategy at Security Research Labs (SRLabs) in Berlin.

He specializes in securing critical infrastructures in the telecommunications and financial sectors across Europe and Asia. Over the past decade, he has led or overseen major offensive and defensive security programs, including red-team campaigns, crisis response operations, and strategic capability build-ups for operators of essential services.

Linus has contributed to the security architecture and resilience foundations of several large-scale mobile networks in Europe and Asia — including Reliance Jio, today one of the world’s largest mobile operators with more than 500 million subscribers. His work spans hardening core network infrastructure, designing threat-led testing methodologies, and building detection and response capabilities aligned with modern attacker tradecraft.

A long-standing member of the hacking community and trained psychologist, Linus focuses on how systemic flaws, architectural debt, and misaligned organizational incentives create structural vulnerabilities. His strategic work emphasizes measurable risk reduction rooted in attacker behavior, exploitation paths, and real-world incident data.

Linus has served repeatedly as an expert witness to the German parliament, including hearings on the IT-Security Acts of 2015 and 2021, where he provided independent assessments of national cyber-security legislation and critical-infrastructure protection.

His technical research includes:

• uncovering vulnerabilities in election and voting-support software;
• analyzing and exposing state-sponsored malware;
• contributing to several high-impact publications on mobile network security and systemic weaknesses in large IT architectures.

His voice is recognized in policy debates, academic analyses, and media reporting on European IT security.