Younes AZABAR

About

Younes AZABAR is the founder of EtcSec, ETC Collector, and agents-deck, and an Infrastructure & Automation Engineer with 5+ years across production infrastructure, cybersecurity (SIEM, SOAR, MITRE ATT&CK) and AI-powered workflow automation. Since July 2026, he has been Technical Lead of a security posture platform for an international hotel group (via a consulting firm) - 34 automated controls across 11 domains, spanning several thousand sites. He designs and ships agentic workflows, AI assistants, and modular integrations that solve real operational problems.

Expert in n8n in production environments, specialised in API orchestration, Gemini / Vertex AI integration, and scalable reusable workflow architectures for operations, reporting, and security automation. Both products - EtcSec and ETC Collector - were built from the ground up with a strong focus on production delivery, adoption, and business impact. Holds an MSc Cybersécurité (ASTON, 2023-2024) and an IT Project Director (ASTON, 2024), certified SC-900 (Microsoft Security) and SOC Level 1 (TryHackMe).

Products

• EtcSec

  Multi-cloud identity security audit SaaS

  Hybrid platform: on-prem Docker collector + SaaS dashboard (Next.js, SSE streaming). +500 vulnerability checks across Active Directory and Entra ID. MITRE ATT&CK mapping on 28+ techniques, attack-path graph analysis, one-click PowerShell remediation. Compliance mapping: ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, RGPD, DORA, HIPAA, PCI-DSS.

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• ETC Collector

  Open-source identity security auditor

  Single-binary auditor rewritten from Node.js to Go - zero dependencies, concurrent LDAP queries, full ADCS ESC1-11 coverage. REST API (Gin), multi-arch Docker, 500 users audited in under 60 seconds. FSL-1.1-ALv2 license.

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• agents-deck

  Mission control for AI coding agents

  Real-time dashboard supervising multiple AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Kimi, Aider) working in parallel across Git branches. No database: Git is the single source of truth. MCP server with 10 native tools, 14 JSON Schema validators, 148 tests. In development.

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Writing

Active Directory attack chains, Entra ID hardening beyond default Conditional Access templates, ADCS ESC1–ESC11 in production AD, and compliance mapping (ANSSI, NIS2, HDS, ISO 27001) with concrete controls audit teams actually ask about.