Sanket Mendapara Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

- Researching and Simulating different novel Adversarial Attack Techniques & finding vulnerabilities in Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLM) based applications as a part of the Threat Research & Protections (TRAP) team.- Helping build Security for AI products at Cisco, incorporating guardrails and safety measures to protect Generative AI systems against novel adversarial attacks, Jailbreaks, etc. Trained and fine-tuned a range of ML models/LLMs to demo the detection capabilities… Show more - Researching and Simulating different novel Adversarial Attack Techniques & finding vulnerabilities in Generative AI & Large Language Models (LLM) based applications as a part of the Threat Research & Protections (TRAP) team.- Helping build Security for AI products at Cisco, incorporating guardrails and safety measures to protect Generative AI systems against novel adversarial attacks, Jailbreaks, etc. Trained and fine-tuned a range of ML models/LLMs to demo the detection capabilities against prompt-based attacks on Gen AI applications.- Working on AI red teaming workflows by simulating diverse attack techniques and vectors, such as Jailbreaking, PII leakage, Obfuscation, harmful content, etc.- Developing and implementing evaluation benchmarking datasets for security, safety & privacy evaluations of LLM-based systems. This included a wide variety of attack techniques and conversation (single-turn and multi-turn) datasets.- Threat Detection Lead for Armorblox Email Protection product. Show less

United States

Working towards the advancement of Email Security and generic Threat Research!

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Worked with CQ-Prime team

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

- Worked on analysis and reverse engineering Portable Executable (PE) files and Non-PE files - PDF, HTML, JAR and scripting files for the latest Malwares and PUAs- Tracked and blocked the different attack vectors and Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) used in Zero-Day exploits and multi-staged malwares spread through spam emails- Working with Web Categorization Team on filtering & classification of different types of URLs/IPs into malware, phishing, CnC- Developed generic & heuristic… Show more - Worked on analysis and reverse engineering Portable Executable (PE) files and Non-PE files - PDF, HTML, JAR and scripting files for the latest Malwares and PUAs- Tracked and blocked the different attack vectors and Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) used in Zero-Day exploits and multi-staged malwares spread through spam emails- Working with Web Categorization Team on filtering & classification of different types of URLs/IPs into malware, phishing, CnC- Developed generic & heuristic detections to block different widespread spam campaigns- Trained new-recruits in advance spam analysis and the latest anti-spam detection techniques for the past 2 years- Handle FPs from customers triggered in anti-spam, URL filtering or anti-malware filtering layers and FP auditing of existing spam detections Show less

Ahmedabad Area, India

Spam Analysis

Jaipur Area, India

• Implemented various projects like - Designing and configuring various LAN and WAN scenarios on Cisco Routers - 2500, 2800 series and Switches - Catalyst 2950, 2960, 3550, 3560.• Worked on various protocols in LAN and WAN Implementation like Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Telnet, VTP, STP, PVST, RPVST HSRP, VRRP, OSPF, OSPF V-3, RIP, RIP-V-2, EIGRP,DHCP, DNS, Frame relay, PPP, HDLC, GRE, IPSec, etc. Planning and implementing different types of ACLs for small and mid-sized… Show more • Implemented various projects like - Designing and configuring various LAN and WAN scenarios on Cisco Routers - 2500, 2800 series and Switches - Catalyst 2950, 2960, 3550, 3560.• Worked on various protocols in LAN and WAN Implementation like Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Telnet, VTP, STP, PVST, RPVST HSRP, VRRP, OSPF, OSPF V-3, RIP, RIP-V-2, EIGRP,DHCP, DNS, Frame relay, PPP, HDLC, GRE, IPSec, etc. Planning and implementing different types of ACLs for small and mid-sized business network scenarios. Implemented NAT and Route Maps concepts on these business networks. Show less

Master Of Science - Ms, Cybersecurity

Courses: Application Security, Cloud Security, Offensive Security, Network Security, Information Security & Privacy, Applied Cryptography.

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication And Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Computer Society of India(CSI) - The LNMIT Student Chapter Member, Quizzinga Member - The LNMIIT Quiz Club