About

Abhishek Murthy is a highly skilled Senior Offensive Security Engineer with over 6 years of experience in performing end-to-end Red and Purple team operations. He is currently working at Salesforce as an Offensive Security Engineer (Red Team) where he leads the offensive security team and performs red and purple team operations on Salesforce products and networks to discover high-quality vulnerabilities. Abhishek is an expert in scoping, threat modeling, information gathering, discovery, attacker tooling, vulnerability exploitation, privilege escalation, lateral movement, post-exploitation, and executive reporting. Abhishek is a high-energy, driven professional with strong offensive security aptitude who thrives in fast-paced, high-volume environments and delivers results. He is adept at assessing threat actor risk in an IT security and business context and communicating high-value findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Abhishek has a passion for continuous improvements in business and process, improving internal processes, and implementing new procedures that aim at improving efficiency and reducing operating time. Abhishek's contribution to helping the public find nearby ATMs during India's demonetization drive was appreciated by several channels prominently 'Entrepreneur India'. He specializes in offensive security operations, network and application security, penetration testing, and product development. His offensive expertise includes red teaming, threat actor emulation, network and web app penetration testing, Linux and MacOS malware development, phishing and DDoS simulation, exploit development, embedded systems reverse engineering, and x86 and C binary reverse engineering. His defensive expertise includes cloud security, digital forensics, system hardening, network monitoring and log analysis for network anomalies, risk assessment, and vulnerability management. Abhishek's educational background includes a Master of Engineering in Cybersecurity from the University of Maryland, where he also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and a Graduate Assistant. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from PESIT, Bangalore, and completed his +2 from MES, Bangalore. Abhishek is proficient in Python, Golang, x86 assembly, C, C++, Bash scripting, Java, HTML, and JavaScript. He also has experience in full-stack development. Overall, Abhishek is a highly skilled and driven security professional with expertise in both offensive and defensive security operations. He is passionate about improving processes and finding innovative solutions to enhance security operations.