I get you into cybersecurity the fast way.

I started as a bored functional analyst on bad pay.

Writing functional specs for a stock management system, watching the clock, going home. I had one thing going for me: a very specific picture of where I wanted to end up. Freelance cybersecurity expert and owner of a cybersecurity business with serious clients on the books.

It took three years, and nobody handed me anything. I made most of the mistakes listed further down this page, which is exactly why I can name them.

I got into the industry through consulting: IT financial audit, compliance for internal control, forensic investigation, pentesting, security analysis. Then I moved inside, as a security architect.

Fifteen years of cybersecurity later, seven of them designing security for international retail groups across five continents, I teach the Web Security by Design module at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and I build dmarc-expert.com, an email security SaaS used by large companies. That's the picture I had in my head at the start, made real. I also wanted to be able to work from anywhere, and that part is real too: I work remotely from the Pyrenees, up in the mountains on the border between France and Spain.

And I enjoy it. The subjects never repeat, and the work is a cat and mouse game with the attackers: there is excitement, there is fear, and there are real wins. You talk to everyone, from the CEO to the CFO, from the CTO to the engineers, from the business to the clients and the suppliers. You never feel isolated, and you never feel stuck.

I'm handing you the process and the knowledge I would have loved to have when I started.
Expert level in far less time, without the wasted years and without burning yourself out.

Where you are now, and where this gets you.

None of that means you're too late.
It means nobody has sat down with you and drawn the map.

Almost nobody in this industry started in it.

You've been told security is sealed off. That it takes a degree, a clean computer science record, and years of IT behind you before anyone returns your call.

Look at who actually does this work. Very few of them started here. They came from support desks, from development, from system administration, from law, from accounting, from investigation, from teaching, from the army, from sales. Plenty came from outside IT entirely.

That isn't an accident. Security is the one part of technology that touches every floor of a business, so it needs people who already know those floors. It is multidisciplinary by nature, and it hires that way.

Which means the years you spent somewhere else are not a hole in your CV. A good part of what you already know is exactly what this work runs on:

• You know how to run an investigation. Following evidence instead of a hunch, and accepting that you were wrong halfway through. That is most of incident response and most of forensics.
• You know how to talk to people. Security gets refused far more often than it gets defeated. Making a team change how it works is harder than finding the flaw, and much rarer as a skill.
• You are rigorous. Audit, compliance and risk analysis rest entirely on that: following a method to the end, writing down what you saw, and refusing to conclude beyond what you checked.
• You can write code. You read other people's code, so you can see how it breaks. Application security and automation hire people who have shipped programs before they hire anyone else.
• You can administer servers and networks. You already know what normal looks like, and that is precisely what lets you spot abnormal. Nobody detects an intrusion without it.
• You understand how a business actually works. Risk is decided, not calculated. Someone who knows what the company lives on protects what matters, instead of what is easy to protect.

None of that is a consolation prize.
It's a head start, and most of the people carrying it have no idea it counts.

The jump is smaller than you think. What's missing is the order to do things in, and someone who has already made it sitting next to you. That's the whole job of this coaching, and the point is to get you across fast.

Four phases, in this order. I walk through each one with you.

The five ways people quietly lose years.

• Learning things nobody asks for. There is an enormous amount of security content that is genuinely interesting and completely useless for getting hired. AI has made that pile much bigger, and it hallucinates badly on security work: confident, well written, wrong, and you need to already know the subject to catch it. I wrote up what I found using it through 2025 and 2026.
• Being funnelled into someone else's product. The people selling you a path are often genuinely in the industry. But the path they sell is the one that leads to their product, not the one that fits your situation and what the market is actually buying. Look at pentest: the courses are everywhere, the companies hiring pentesters are far fewer. Nobody inside that funnel has any reason to tell you so.
• Hiding inside certifications. They're comfortable: a syllabus, a date, a result. But a recruiter looking at six unrelated certificates can see there's no thread running through them, and reads it as someone who hasn't worked out what they're aiming at. A certification counts when it backs up knowledge you already have. On its own it's a receipt, not a skill.
• Losing interviews on small things. You can be the right person and get rejected over how you answered one question, or how your CV was laid out. Most of it is fixable in an afternoon, once someone tells you.
• Moving forward on your own. Working alone is slow, and it leaves you with nobody to compare notes with. In the Skool community you talk to people aiming at the same thing, and you build the network that serves you today and years from now.

Seven years of IT behind you? There is a shorter road than this coaching.

This coaching is built for getting into the industry. If you already have at least seven years of IT experience, you don't need to get in. You need to move up. The technical background is already there, what is missing is the method.

That is what the security architect program does: four weeks, on your own projects. It is the royal road of this profession, the one that leads to the very top salaries in cybersecurity and to the roles where you can ask for full remote. You can take it on your own.