About

Kumar Saurav is a highly skilled Red Teamer, Cyber Security Researcher, Penetration Tester, and Bug Bounty Hunter with over 7 years of relevant experience. He is currently working as an Application Security Engineer at Cognizant, where he performs Red Teaming assessments and deploys VM on Azure platform to implement necessary security controls and best practices. Kumar also performs monthly security audits on Azure cloud machines, storage accounts, databases, applications, and key vaults. Kumar's expertise includes formal penetration testing on web applications, network infrastructures, and APIs. He designs and creates new test cases and evaluates penetration testing tools. Kumar is adept at identifying and probing for vulnerabilities in web applications, thick/thin client applications, and standard applications. He is skilled in pinpointing methods that attackers could use to exploit weaknesses and logic flaws. Kumar also employs social engineering to uncover security holes, such as poor user security practices or password policies. Kumar is a proficient researcher, documenter, and communicator. He researches, documents, and discusses security findings with Program Managers, Client POCs, and IT teams. Kumar provides assistance to business areas in understanding and documenting technical threats and vulnerabilities and possible fixes. He prepares detailed Red Teaming reports with observation summaries, root causes, and findings. Kumar has previously worked as an Application Security Engineer and Programmer Analyst-IVM at Cognizant. He performed manual as well as automated pen tests using various open source and commercial tools. Kumar has also designed and executed Application Security Testing projects, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment, and Network Assessment on critical infrastructure and applications. He identified and removed false positive results from given reports that had been generated by automated scanners. Kumar holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science Engineering from Calcutta Institute of Technology and completed his Higher Secondary education in Science from Mithila Public School. His technical skills include test, research scientist, web, Azure, and infra. Kumar is a highly motivated and dedicated professional with a passion for cyber security.