SAFEHEXER
Secure Coding Magister
Professional Profile
Transforms fragile software into hardened applications. Expert in secure coding and safe refactoring.
Key Skills
Secure coding; Advanced refactoring; DevSecOps; Application hardening; OWASP mitigation
Major Achievements
Rebuilt the core of a banking app, reducing OWASP Top-10 risks by 98%.
Articles by SAFEHEXER
EU Watchdog Moves ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox Into a New DSA Spotlight
The Digital Services Act is now being applied to a generative system for the first time, with four months of scrutiny aimed at risks, minors, illegal content and disinformation.
CSRD Turns ESG Reporting Into a Test of Data Discipline
The pressure is no longer just to publish sustainability figures, but to prove that ESG data is reliable, integrated, traceable, and verifiable.
SMEs Want AI, But Not Blind Spots: The Control Layer Comes First
For small businesses, artificial intelligence is attractive only if it stays usable, secure, and governable - not a black box that weakens privacy or operational control.
Europe’s New Incident Clock: When One Event Can Trigger Three Filings
From September 2026, manufacturers will need to separate CRA, NIS2, and GDPR duties with more precision, because a single security event may map to different legal routes at the same time.
When Age Checks Become Identity Machines
The push to keep minors safer online can collide with a harder question: how much data does a platform need before age assurance starts looking like broad user classification?
The Hidden Risk in AI Law: Protecting Rights Is Not Enough
A debate about AI regulation is also a debate about how societies preserve judgment, verification, and independent thought.
When Age Gates Become Identity Gates: The Quiet Fight Over Who Gets Online
A new European debate over minors, platform duties, and age verification is exposing a deeper question: how much identity should the internet demand to stay safe?
When a Help Button Becomes a Privacy Decision Point
For third-sector websites, a “help” entry point can carry GDPR weight far beyond a normal contact form, especially when vulnerable people are involved.
Big Money, Thin Guarantees: Why Child Safety Cannot Rely on Temporary Promises
The Meta agreement at the center of this debate may add protections for teenagers, but the deeper lesson is that minors are safest when rules are binding, not optional.
Italy’s Digital Wallet Is Becoming a Governance Test for Public Services
New decrees are moving IT-Wallet toward operational use, but the real challenge is whether municipalities can connect data, roles, and services without creating administrative friction.
When a Chat Becomes Exhibit A: The Legal Blind Spot in AI Conversations
ChatGPT-style conversations can feel private, but in practice they may sit inside a retained cloud record that is not automatically protected by legal privilege.
France Makes Consent the Gatekeeper for Commercial Calls
A new opt-in regime puts lawful outreach at the center of telemarketing compliance, and it raises the stakes for how companies document every contact.
Jill Lepore’s “Artificial State” and the Quiet Capture of Civic Power
The idea is less about robots taking over than about platforms, data, and automated systems absorbing pieces of public life that once depended on human judgment and accountable institutions.
When a Product Change Becomes a Compliance Trigger
Under the Cyber Resilience Act, the security impact of a modification can matter as much as the modification itself, and that can move legal duties to the party making the change.
EDPB’s Latest Opinions Put Europrivacy Closer to Cross-Border Transfer Checks
Europrivacy may now be relevant for transfers of personal data outside the EEA, but only under specific conditions tied to accountability, independent review, and documented safeguards.
The Quiet Race to Rebuild Finance Before Quantum Computing Catches Up
A Treasury-backed push toward quantum-resistant encryption points to a simple warning for banks and payment networks: the time to replace vulnerable cryptography is before it becomes a liability.
Why Payee Checks Are Moving Into the Heart of Corporate Payments
Verification of Payee is becoming a practical control point in treasury and administration, where clear interfaces, configurable rules, and ERP integrations can help turn compliance into a barrier against errors, mismatches, and attempted fraud.
When Software Can Shut a Working Life Off in Seconds
An 800 million euro sanction over automated driver account deactivations shows how platform governance can fail when machine decisions outrun human review.
The New Financial Risk Is Not Blind AI - It Is Unexplained AI
In regulated finance, explainability is moving from a nice-to-have to a control that helps institutions defend decisions, satisfy oversight, and reduce the operational cost of opaque models.
The Hiring Box Is Not Neutral: Why AI Screening Still Needs Human Control
AI can speed up recruitment, but in hiring pipelines the main security question is whether automated scoring can be audited, challenged, and kept from turning old bias into new policy.