Vaibhav Deshmukh

CEO

Hyderabad, Telangana, India10 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over a decade of experience in cybersecurity.
Expert in building next-generation security products.
Passionate about bridging research and product development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity expert specializing in threat detection and innovative security solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

CybersecuritySecurity Product DevelopmentThreat DetectionRansomware DefenseMalware DefenseThreat AnalysisCyber DefenseInformation SecurityRisk Management

Other Skills

AI AgentsAPT-based threat detectionAV detectionAutomationAzure SentinelBotnet harvestingC++DFIRData analyticsEDRExploit CodingGenAI-driven solutionsGenerative AIJavaScriptLLM

About

With over a decade of experience in cybersecurity, I specialize in building next-generation security products that protect millions of customers worldwide. At Microsoft, I’m currently driving innovation in Microsoft Security Exposure Management (MSEM), shaping solutions that proactively reduce risk and strengthen organizational resilience. Previously, I worked on XDR Automatic Attack Disruption and Microsoft Defender Endpoint Protection engineering real-time defenses to disrupt adversaries at the earliest stages of the kill chain. My career spans expertise across XDR & Antivirus Technologies, Multi-Cloud Threat Research, Red Teaming, Human Operated Ransomware, State-sponsored Attacks, and Botnet Communications giving me a unique perspective on both the attacker’s mindset and defensive strategies. Beyond hands-on research, I’m passionate about bridging the gap between research and product development, leveraging GenAI and Automation workflows to transform security breakthroughs into scalable, impactful protections for customers.

Experience

10 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Principal Security Researcher

Promoted

Aug 2025 – Present · 8 mos

Microsoft Security Exposure Management, Solving Posture Challenges at scale, for delivering effective protection.

Microsoft Security Exposure ManagementPosture ChallengesCybersecuritySecurity Product Development

Senior Security Researcher

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo

▪ Led innovation in Microsoft Defender Automatic Attack Disruption and Microsoft Defender for Cloud, generating real-world threat intelligence to counter human-operated ransomware and building technologies to prevent, detect, and automatically disrupt sophisticated attacks.
▪ Partnered across Defender for Cloud, Identities, and Sentinel Graphs to strengthen enterprise detection and response.
▪ Pioneered GenAI-driven solutions to automate workflows and expand detection coverage.

Microsoft Defender Automatic Attack DisruptionMicrosoft Defender for CloudThreat IntelligenceGenAI-driven solutionsThreat DetectionRansomware Defense

Security Researcher II

Mar 2019 – Mar 2021 · 2 yrs

▪ Specialized in EDR and AV detection, developing solutions to strengthen defenses against ransomware.
▪ Built and optimized ML pipelines to expand detection coverage, uncover zero-day malware campaigns, and reduce false positives.
▪ Drove advanced threat simulations and botnet harvesting to validate defenses, close detection gaps, and enhance protection against prevalent threat families.

EDRAV detectionML pipelinesThreat simulationsBotnet harvestingMalware Defense+1

Symantec

Threat Analysis Engineer

Jul 2017 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune Area, India

▪ Led the advanced detection engineering team for data analytics and APT-based threat detection.
▪ Incubated efficacy research to identify gaps and improve Symantec technologies.
▪ Responded to cyberattacks by building and deploying automations to proactively eliminate emerging threat classes.

Data analyticsAPT-based threat detectionAutomationThreat AnalysisCyber Defense

Protiviti consulting

Information Security Consultant

Jul 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · Kuwait

▪ Delivered onsite and remote security assessments, including network, application, and penetration testing for clients across multiple industries.
▪ Executed projects for major banks, financial institutions, telecom, petrochemical, and manufacturing sectors.
▪ Identified and reported high-risk vulnerabilities, driving remediation and strengthening security posture.
▪ Developed proof-of-concept exploits to demonstrate business risk and accelerate remediation.

Security assessmentsPenetration testingVulnerability identificationInformation SecurityRisk Management