Concrete technical problems, clear responsibility and solutions that can be tested.
EST. 2000 · SWITZERLAND
Merlin Klauser.
Security engineer.
I work in cybersecurity. Outside it, I spend time with the people closest to me, run Vitaparcours, shoot film and alternate between hard techno, Vivaldi, books and older films.
01 / WORK
Security engineering,
practically applied.
My foundation is an EFZ in systems engineering. Today I work with enterprise cybersecurity: implementing products, investigating what went wrong and translating the answer into something people can use.
FortinetSEPPmailCisco ESAZscalerCortex XDRMateso Password Safe
02 / INTERESTS
Things I care
about.
People, pursuits and experiences that shape how I spend my time.
Good company
Time with my girlfriend, friends and family. Loyalty, trust and being there for one another matter to me.
Military service
Military Police RS, followed by Infanterie-Patrouilleur UOS. I value the responsibility, clarity and shared purpose.
Vitaparcours
My preferred way to get out of my head: a full session, properly done, preferably somewhere in the woods.
Culture
Hard techno and Vivaldi; books and older films; conversations that continue long after the original question was answered.
Film photography
Colour negative film, direct flash and people I care about—especially when the last blue daylight is still in the sky.
03 / HOW I THINK
A few recurring
tendencies.
Ethics, history, technology and human behaviour are the subjects I most reliably disappear into.
Curious to a fault
I rarely stop at the first answer. One question about a practical problem can become an afternoon of history, ethics or engineering.
Accuracy before certainty
I would rather hear “I don’t know” than receive a confident answer built on guesswork.
People usually cooperate
I think most humans are fundamentally willing to help. Good systems make that instinct easier to act on.
Serious questions, unserious routes
Dark humour and absurd dilemmas are often how I test an idea—or simply how a conversation gets pleasantly out of hand.
04 / SELECTED FAVOURITES
A small cultural shelf.
Cloud Atlas
Antonio Vivaldi · Le quattro stagioni
Canon A-1
A Farewell to Arms · Ernest Hemingway
C. S. Forester
THINGS I MAKE & EXPLORE
Photography
Occasional creative writing
Long-term preservation & resilient systems
05 / ASK ME ABOUT
Good ways to start
a long conversation.
History, ethics & absurd dilemmas
The normal questions—and the ones involving consequences nobody sensible would invent.
Military experiences
Military Police RS, infantry patrol training and the peculiar logic of Swiss militia life.
Film photography
Film choice, flash, blue-hour portraits and why inconvenience can still be worthwhile.
Cybersecurity
Products, incidents, architecture and the gap between theory and operations.