Founder of Network Intelligence. Grew the firm from a one-man operation in 2001 to a 350 employee company in 2017 with offices in New York, Dubai and Mumbai. Consistently growing now at 45% CAGR we are poised to reach 500 employees by the end of the current financial year.
Starting off as a self-taught pentester, I moved onto doing security audits, then added the risk management and compliance capabilities to my skillets. In the last 17 years, I've got hands-on experience with pretty much every aspect of cybersecurity. Over the last few years I get directly involved only in assignments that are related to incident response and active hunting. I get inspired by the work that my team members do and mentoring them and seeing them shine is one of my greatest joys. I am also the product evangelist at NII for Insight (ELK-based big data platform for security analytics) and Firesec (firewall Config review and management platform which is evolving into a security orchestration tool). Back in the day when there was less of a workload I did co-author two books (Linux Security And Controls by ISACA, and Metasploit Framework, by Syngress Publishing), and numerous articles on information security. One of my earliest accomplishments was presenting at Blackhat in 2004 on "Detecting web application attacks" (there's an embarrassing YouTube video of it if you search real hard). Specialties: IT Strategy, Information risk assessment and mitigation strategies, information security policies and procedures, business continuity management, standards such as ISO 27001, BS 25999, ISO 20000, application security assessments, SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA regulatory compliance, forensics and incident response. |