02 · Experience
Professional experience
From application security to national-level incident response and research.
Career span2019 → today
201920202024now
3organisations
CIIsecurity audits
NationalCTFs & red-team exercises
CRTEcertified
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CSIR-NIDSA, Bengaluru
2024 — PresentCybersecurity Scientist · Information Security Officer
- Research on real-time raw threat intelligence generation and analysis
- Development and enhancement of an indigenous Cyber Threat Intelligence tool
- Simulation of advanced cyber attacks
- Research on log analysis techniques
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Government of India
2020 — 2024- Collaborated with GoI auditing agencies on comprehensive security audits of Critical Information Infrastructure (CII), based on ISO standards and GoI guidelines; participated in cyber/information security audits
- Led cyber incident investigations as an IR expert representing GoI
- Threat hunting, penetration testing, grey/black-box security testing and security product evaluation/validation for critical entities
- Participated in and led national-level CTFs and red-teaming exercises as a GoI representative
- Passive vulnerability assessment of CII by collecting and analysing OSINT
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Virtual Employee Pvt. Ltd.
2019 — 2020- Security of Android applications (threat hunting) for DMCA compliance
- Prevention and mitigation of phishing incidents