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Eric M. Gagnon

Team Lead, Adversary Simulation - Desjardins

Eric M. Gagnon is a cybersecurity expert with two decades of experience, including more than 15 years as a Blue Teamer, where he has held all key defense roles: vulnerability management, cyber threat intelligence, incident response, and digital investigation. He distinguished himself at Desjardins by founding and structuring the Threat Hunting practice, bringing a proactive capability for detecting advanced threats. From the beginning of his career, Eric cultivated an attacker mindset by obtaining offensive security certifications and participating in numerous CTFs, allowing him to adopt a Red Team approach to better understand and counter adversarial attack techniques. Today, as Team Leader in adversary simulation within the ETTIC team at Desjardins, he fully embodies a Purple Team approach, combining defensive expertise, offensive techniques, and close collaboration between teams to strengthen organizational resilience in the face of emerging threats.