Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
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Enrique Gallardo
Last position:
Security Architect at Capgemini
I implemented a Zero-Trust architecture for robust, military-grade maritime container mini data centers based on VMware & Tanzu to support containerized GIS workloads for ground forces. The main focus was on securing communications, workload protection, and data access in contested electronic battle environments affected by jamming, interception, signal manipulation, and constantly changing operational conditions. I designed and architected use cases so that every element of workload, identity, and system could continue to operate independently and securely even in degraded or disrupted scenarios. In parallel, I defined the enterprise and solution security architecture with LeanIX, Bizzdesign, and HOPEX as enterprise architecture, repository, and governance platforms to maintain architecture inventory, relationships, traceability, target pictures, and security governance in complex environments. For the architectural designs, I used Sparx Enterprise Architect to describe formal architecture views, interfaces, trust boundaries, and system architecture in both IT and OT environments. IriusRisk was used for threat modeling of the solution to identify architecture-driven risks, derive security requirements, and detect countermeasures and design gaps directly from the solution models. Risk and compliance management was supported with Archer. Architecture decisions, control gaps, and operational risks were translated into controlled governance and auditable compliance measures. For documentation, collaboration, and visual design, I used Confluence to maintain Architecture Decision Records, Security Blueprints, and workflows. I used Lucidchart and draw.io to create design artifacts tailored to stakeholders. I also defined OT security concepts with support from electrical and mechanical engineers in the areas of oil, vehicle onboard systems, rail, power plants, pharma, gas turbines, and nuclear technology. I created the end-to-end OT security strategy, starting with global policy, developed into standards and procedures, and finally aligned with Bell-LaPadula, Purdue Model, SABSA, TOGAF ADM, CENELEC 50701, IEC 62443, and NIST standards. In addition, I worked with engineering team leads to identify critical KBP assets and place them under protective measures that segmented SCADA, PLC, and HMI assets. I drove collaboration between Security, IT, and OT teams to create standardized workflows and use cases for the OT security solution catalog, while integrating Defense-in-Depth and Zero-Trust principles into operational environments. A key part of my work was integrating multidisciplinary engineering, security, and operations stakeholders into a unified security blueprinting strategy and ensuring that architecture, threat modeling, governance, and documentation were technically strong and operationally practical.
Alexander Sänn
Last position:
Lead Audit Conformity & IT Security Catalog at DAX group energy provider in the renewable energy sector
- Supported the implementation of §8a requirements of the BSI Act for critical infrastructures.
- Systematically prepared and supported internal and external audits, resolving previous deviations (HA, NA, VP)
- Implemented the specific requirements of the IT security catalog
- Developed training, created run books, and conducted assessments to ensure operational effectiveness.
Stanislaus Stelle
Last position:
Security Consultant at Rohde & Schwarz AG at Star Labs GmbH
- Worked on FPGA enhanced network encryption device with secure boot, TPM2.0 and smart card integration for BSI approved usage with Post Quantum Cryptography
- Developed and audited Linux drivers
- Collaborated using GitLab, Gerrit, Confluence and Jira
- Technologies: C, C++, Secure Boot
Ronald Foerster
Last position:
IT Consultant & Training at Various Small Projects & AI Training
- Development of multiple websites for small businesses (6)
- SEO/SEM
- Business Consulting (Implementation of ERP systems (Fresha / MS Dynamics))
- AI Tooling, Prompting & Coding
- GenAI Chatbot (GPT 4.0)
- Creation of a telephone agent (NLP services, Twilio, Python, Azure Services)
- Python coding, report & dashboard creation
- Stakeholder management and consulting throughout the project lifecycle
Training and Certifications in AI:
- Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
- Develop Gen AI Solutions with Azure Open AI Service
- Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution
- Artificial Intelligence for the Business Professional
- Generative AI for the Business Professional
- Certified Artificial Intelligence Practitioner
Rupesh Kumar Sendge
Last position:
IT Baseline Compliance Consultant at Consultant
- Baseline compliance verification against MAS audit findings
- Building technical architecture concept for 30 technologies to build hardening standard artifacts
- Identifying and building automation possibilities for given technologies based on CIS
- Building the standard baseline configuration based on internal security standard
- Responsible for building Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) architecture artifacts based on Azure cloud platform
- Responsible for RFQ and RFP for different CNAPP solutions (Qualys Total Cloud, CrowdStrike, Azure Security Center)
- Supporting compliance verification and validation via automated scripts for a sample population of IT devices and instances
- Responsible for complete vulnerability management lifecycle using Nexpose, remediation, reporting and integration of results with Splunk, HPSM and Tableau
- Audit support for MAS
Seyed Farhad Miri
Last position:
Senior Product Security Engineer at Delivery Hero
- Developed a custom tool using the Mistral 7B LLM to scan, validate and report security vulnerabilities.
- Security tested AI agents, bots, and other LLMs with a focus on prompt injection, model inversion, data poisoning, EDR/AV bypass and evasion techniques, membership inference, model evasion, overfitting to malicious inputs and contextual manipulation.
- Onboarded repositories to SAST solutions for security scanning, implemented secrets scanning, DAST, SCA, and utilized ZAP for DAST in CI/CD pipelines.
- Engaged in security awareness trainings, developed CTF challenges and training materials to enhance developer security knowledge.
- Planned and executed bi-annual red teaming operations based on the MITRE ATT&CK framework and led internal and external pentests based on the OWASP Top 10 framework for 70+ applications worldwide, resulting in detection, reporting, and remediation of hundreds of vulnerabilities.
- Triaged HackerOne reports.
Matthias Steinmann
Last position:
Senior Security Consultant (freelance) at DVZ M-V
- ISMS and security concept for the Fabasoft e-file according to BSI 200-1/2, among others
- Structural analysis (A.1), modeling (A.3), and baseline protection checks (A.4)
- Preparation for OWASP penetration test, incident response plan, risk analysis
- DevOps Bitbucket, ARC42, IAM with Keycloak/AD, multi-tenant setup, DMS, SOC
- Emergency preparedness concept (BSI 200-4), operations and service concept (BSK), ITSM
Evgenii Trembach
Last position:
IT-Cybersecurity Engineer at EuroTechStudy
Alexander Nagy
Last position:
Security Expert at DAK-Gesundheit
- Pentesting of mobile applications
- Code review
- Gematik audit
- Development of secure software development methods
- Creation of security and test concepts
- Penetration testing of software and architecture
- Vulnerability analysis
- Automation and information security
- Use of Confluence and Jira
- Working with databases, J2EE, JavaServer Faces, Liquibase, Apache, Maven, Mercurial, Oracle Financials
- Documentation and creation of security policies
- Management of software systems, SharePoint, PrimeFaces, Git
- Compliance with security regulations and .NET, AWS, API
- Tools: MobSF, Frida, Android Studio, Drozer, Objection, Azure
Jan Kopia
Last position:
Consultant for Information Security & Auditor at Kopiasonsulting GmbH
Operational management of the company: building teams and infrastructure, developing products, analysis and implementation of IT security measures
Project assignments in the IT security environment focusing on establishing blue teaming activities (defensive processes and technologies) to defend against cyber attacks
Conducting red teaming processes, including penetration tests and security analyses for companies
Consulting on setting up Security Operation Centers and implementing SIEM systems, and building Computer Incident Response Teams (CSIRT)
Auditor for ISO 9001 and ISO 27001, § 8a, ISO 27019, § 11 1a EnWG, TISAX
Advising companies in critical infrastructures on information security and compliance with the IT Security Act
Building SIEM/SOC processes and SOC analyst work (Splunk, ELK-Stack)
Integrating data into monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
Consulting on BSI IT baseline protection, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, BCM, ITIL and risk management
Security assessments and penetration testing of IT and network architectures
Samir Soliman
Last position:
Project Manager in the Cybersecurity Department at RWE AG
- Implementation of the new Group Cybersecurity Strategy based on the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Managing, coaching, and guiding the operational companies in their cybersecurity status quo analysis according to the NIST CSF methodology
- Gap analysis against the industry benchmark and target maturity level
- Client: CISO of RWE AG
Michael Lenz
Last position:
Identity & PAM Architect at BfArM
- Implementation of CyberArk OnPremise
- BSI basic protection (high protection needs)
- Breaking Class Strategy
- IdP / Identity Strategy / PIM
- Technologies: PAM, CyberArk OnPremise, KeyCloak
Krisztián Korcz
Last position:
IT-Soc/Vulnerability at ITZBund
- Vulnerability management (Greenbone, Tenable SC, Rapid7)
- Automation of vulnerability scans
- OpenTofu (Terraform)/Ansible/Vault/Podman/Docker
- Compliance audit
- SOC (ElasticSearch, Graylog)
- Python/Rust/Bash/Shell/PowerShell
- Git collaboration
- Report standardization and automation
- POC for several vulnerability scanning systems
- Setup of vulnerability scanning system
Markus Willems
Last position:
KRITIS Consultant at Oil Company
- Preparing an oil company for KRITIS auditing
- KRITIS consulting
- Creating necessary policies, processes, and guidelines in line with KRITIS requirements
- Tools and methodologies used: ISO/IEC 27001, BSI IT Baseline Protection, KRITIS-V
Christian Heutger
Last position:
Lead Auditor at Heutger GmbH
- Appointed Lead Auditor for ISO 27001 and TISAX at various certification bodies
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Certified Ethical Hackers (CEH) statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
2 years
Positions per freelancer
18
Top business areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Audit
Bachelor's degree or higher
92%
Master's degree or higher
62%
Doctorate
15%
Certifications per freelancer
13
Most common languages
German, English, French
Speak two or more languages
100%
Based on our profile pool as of 26 Aug 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates for Certified Ethical Hackers (CEH) in Germany
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The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 26 Aug 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
About the certification
Professional Security Validation
The Certified Ethical Hacker credential issued by EC-Council validates a professional's ability to think and act like a malicious attacker. Freelancers holding this certification understand how to identify system vulnerabilities, exploit weaknesses, and implement countermeasures. They apply the same tools and techniques as black-hat hackers but do so legally and constructively to protect corporate assets.
Core Competences of Vetted Security Experts
Independent security specialists with this credential bring a highly technical skillset to defense projects. They systematically analyze networks, cloud setups, and applications to uncover security gaps before malicious actors can exploit them.
- Advanced footprinting and reconnaissance techniques to map corporate attack surfaces
- Network scanning and vulnerability analysis to locate entry points
- System hacking methodologies including privilege escalation and malware analysis
- Web application, wireless network, and mobile platform evasion testing
- Cloud computing security audits and IoT infrastructure hardening
- Cryptography evaluation and defensive countermeasure deployment
Strategic Importance in Germany
For companies operating in Germany, digital security is heavily tied to strict regulatory frameworks such as the Federal Office for Information Security standards and European data protection regulations. Engaging a certified specialist ensures that penetration testing and vulnerability management are performed according to recognized international methodologies. This structured approach helps German enterprises maintain compliance during external audits and safeguard sensitive customer data within secure cloud environments.
Project Integration and Collaboration
These certified professionals integrate seamlessly into existing IT security teams or lead standalone testing initiatives. They collaborate with internal developers, system administrators, and compliance officers to explain technical findings and assist with remediation strategies. Their objective, external perspective helps businesses identify blind spots in their defensive architecture and build long-term resilience against modern cyber threats.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Certified Ethical Hackers (CEH).
A freelancer holding the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) designation has proven expertise in scanning networks, identifying vulnerabilities, and executing authorized penetration testing. They understand how malicious actors exploit systems, allowing them to proactively secure web applications, cloud environments, and physical network infrastructure.
German enterprises operate under strict regulatory frameworks, including the BSI IT-Grundschutz and GDPR compliance. Hiring a specialist with the CEH qualification ensures that your threat assessments and security audits follow globally recognized standards, reducing legal risks and protecting corporate assets effectively.
While the CEH focuses on a broad understanding of hacking methodology, tools, and defensive countermeasures across multiple vectors, certifications like OSCP are highly focused on hands-on penetration testing. Many organizations hire professionals with both credentials to balance strategic threat assessment with deep practical exploitation testing.
Professionals holding the Certified Ethical Hacker credential must participate in the EC-Council Continuing Education program. They log security-related activities, attend training, or contribute to the cybersecurity community over a three-year cycle to keep their status active and stay updated on emerging threats.
Yes, an independent CEH specialist can perform comprehensive vulnerability assessments and mock cyberattacks to discover weaknesses before an official audit. Their findings allow your internal IT team to remediate flaws, ensuring your organization meets required compliance baselines smoothly.
While technical vulnerability reports are often written in English, having a consultant fluent in German is highly beneficial when presenting findings to local stakeholders, management boards, or compliance officers who require clear explanations of technical risks in the native language.
Many aspects of ethical hacking, such as external network scanning, web application testing, and cloud audits, are performed remotely. However, certain internal network audits, physical security assessments, or social engineering tests might require the CEH expert to work on-site at your German office.
To earn the CEH certification, professionals must either complete official training or prove substantial professional security experience. They must pass a rigorous exam covering detailed knowledge of attack vectors, scanning tools, malware threats, and ethical hacking methodologies.
The average hourly rate for freelancers with Certified Ethical Hackers (CEH) in Germany is 109 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 873 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers with Certified Ethical Hackers (CEH) in Germany, 92% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 62% hold at least a Master's degree, and 15% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers with Certified Ethical Hackers (CEH) in Germany have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers with Certified Ethical Hackers (CEH) in Germany are German (100%), English (100%), and French (29%).
The most common industries among freelancers with Certified Ethical Hackers (CEH) in Germany are Information Technology (94%), Banking and Finance (71%), and Professional Services (65%).
The most common business areas among freelancers with Certified Ethical Hackers (CEH) in Germany are Information Technology (100%), Project Management (82%), and Quality Assurance (76%).
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