CafIT – Calicut forum for IT is a non profit organisation formed by the IT professionals of Calicut to bring the companies under a single umbrella and to promote the city as a viable destination for IT and IT enabled services.

My pride, joy and greatest success story so far!The experience gained throughout my career helped me position our team to offer the following:✅ Customize services to effectively meet client’s budget requirements✅ As a co-founder, remain an easily accessible contact point for all clients, at any time, whatever the need!✅ Customize security offerings based on client’s domain, technology and business logic.✅ More than satisfying regulatory requirement, focus on protecting assets from breaches.✅ Our clients have certified through their own experience that our output is on par with that of any security team, anywhere in the world. Our services include:🖲️ Continuously monitor your assets to quickly identify new threats.🖲️ Assure your customers of your security maturity.🖲️ Manage your bug bounty program.🖲️ Manual assessment of devops to identify threats in business logic.🖲️ Avoid depending solely on tools so we can predict a hacker’s mindset.🖲️ Overcome limitations of current AI/ML applications in security.

This was a fun exploration of automation testing which, though still fascinates us, is currently on the back burner.

This was my first experience pitching to clients directly and effectively conveying value benefits.Signed up and protected over $10,000,000 worth of client’s digital assets over this period.

My first growth experience taught me how to effectively manage a team of security analysts, including the following:🟦 Personally conducted 100+ penetration tests and vulnerability assessments.🟦 Set up processes, procedures, policies.🟦 Allocated tasks to meet deadlines.🟦 Developed documentation with due diligence.🟦 Briefed clients (technical and non-technical) about progress towards goals.

This was my first experience training a group and moulding them into a team.My biggest takeaway was learning to seek out information and communicating it effectively to my team.I learned to drill my knowledge search down to industry critical information. This has helped me to, even today, stay on top of latest developments in security.Though it was my first time communicating with clients as a responsible team lead, I quickly learned how to understand and prioritize the needs of our clients.Training programs I conducted helped me gain significant technical knowledge.Application of this acquired knowledge during live penetration tests and vulnerability assessments on client assets, helped me refine my methods to effectively seek out the proverbial ‘needle in a haystack’.