Led by someone who has done the work
ShadeSec is led by Anouar Mansour, CISSP, a Canadian Armed Forces veteran with offensive security experience at Microsoft, the Government of Ontario and Deloitte. He leads every engagement.
Attackers rarely need exotic zero-days. They hide in complexity: identity sprawl, unclear ownership and overlapping tools. We remove it, and we resell no model, cloud, scanner or SIEM, so our only incentive is the outcome.
Vladislav Babiuk, CCRP · Co-founder
SIEM, UEBA and SOAR platform evaluations. Also served at the Canadian Forces Network Operations Centre. Email
- MicrosoftOffensive security, regulated industries2022 to 2025
- Government of OntarioSenior cyber security specialist: red team, penetration testing and the enterprise vulnerability management program2018 to 2022
- DeloitteSenior consultant, threat intelligence and vulnerability2018
- Canadian Forces Network Operations CentreReconnaissance and blue team analyst2016 to 2018
Certifications and access
CISSP
ISC², certified 2025
Systems and Network Auditor (GSNA)
GIAC, certified 2017
Daybreak, Trusted Access for Cyber
OpenAI
Cyber Verification Program
Anthropic
Military training
Malware Analysis
Royal Military College of Canada
Intrusion Detection and Extrusion Analysis
Royal Military College of Canada
Network Security
Royal Military College of Canada
Network Defence Analyst
CF School of Communications and Electronics
Specialist training
Advanced Web App Penetration Testing (SEC642)
SANS Institute
Critical Security Controls (SEC566)
SANS Institute
Auditing and Monitoring Networks (AUD507)
SANS Institute
Exploit Development
Exploit Lab
Azure AD Attack and Defence
Pentester Academy
Exercises and recognition
Red team, Cyber Defense Exercise
Hosted by the NSA
Second place, Exercise Cyber Flag 21-2
Hosted by US Cyber Command
Commanding Officer's commendation
Offensive cyber operations, national exercise
Control+s
Spun out with Everett & Co.
Maps evidence to framework requirements and produces defensible, cited maturity scores.
controls.run ↗CanaryGrid
Active research
Monitors data leakage across AI model routing and inference providers using traceable canary tokens.
canarygrid.shadesec.com ↗Fusion Compliance Engine
IDEaS innovation challenge
A policy-aware gatekeeper for multi-sensor data fusion, built for the Department of National Defence's IDEaS challenge.
Our venture studio, where tools we build, like Control+s, grow into companies of their own.
Quebec engagements are facilitated through our partnership with Commissionnaires du Québec.
Much of our work is confidential. We never name clients without permission, and we are happy to work under your NDA from the first conversation.