Abhinav Singh

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States13 yrs 4 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Authored three bestselling security books with over 24000 copies sold.
Led security research initiatives at multiple high-profile conferences.
Contributed to open source security projects and community.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Security Expert with extensive experience in threat research and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Ai Security

Other Skills

AJAXApplication SecurityBacktrackCC++CEHCSSCloud ComputingComputer SecurityEndpoint SecurityEthical HackingFirewallsHTMLIDSIPS

About

*Security R&D*: Building security products, identifying critical use-cases, designing prototypes and detection algorithms. Conducting research into new attack vectors in cloud, endpoint and network security space. *GTM*: Early stage product brainstorming, roadmap and implementation. Security Research led marking motion. Threat Research content generation for pre-sales, marketing and conference presentations. Lead-gen through outreach and conference programs. PR led content growth. *Advisory*: Helping with cloud security startup pitches. Building product roadmap and identifying near-term wins. Architecture planning and implementation of security services. Conference review board and panels. *Contribution to Security community*: Author of three different books on security & Pentesting that have sold over 24000 copies worldwide. Open source project contribution on https://www.github.com/abhinavbom Contributed three different auxiliary modules on AV bypass to Metasploit repository. Frequent contributor of signatures to Emerging threats community. *Cloud Security Trainer & Instructor*: Blackhat: 2021, 2022 Defcon: 2022, 2023. Hack In Paris: 2021. BruCon: 2023. Troopers: 2020, 2021, 2022. OWASP: 2022, 2023. And several more international events. *Conference and Talks* : Blackhat: 2015, 2018, 2021, 2022. RSA: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023 Defcon: 2019, 2022 Troopers: 2021, 2022 Hack In Paris: 2022, OWASP: 2020, 2022 SaintCon: 2022. Insomni'hack: 2022, 2023 Many other international conferences like Hacktivity, Insomnihack, HITB, Bsides etc.

Experience

Foresight institute

AI Safety & Security Fellow

Jan 2025 – Jun 2025 · 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

The Foresight Fellowship is a one-year program committed to giving change-makers the support to accelerate their bold ideas into the future. The mission is to catalyze collaboration among leading young scientists, engineers, and innovators who work to advance technologies for the benefit of life.

AI Security

Normalyze

Head of Security Research

Mar 2022 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

Heading all aspects of Security research, Product Security and Compliance. Driving GTM, pre-sales & Customer success through SME, outreach and strategic partnerships.
Proofpoint acquired Normalyze in November 2024: https://www.proofpoint.com/us/newsroom/press-releases/proofpoint-signs-definitive-agreement-acquire-normalyze

Stealth startup

Security Advisor

Oct 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Amazon web services (aws)

Security Consultant, Strategic Transformation

May 2020 – Apr 2022 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Founding Consultant/Advisor of Security team that works closely with AWS's top 20 strategic customers, solving their most challenging cloud security problems. The role involves Security Consulting, Prototyping, Architecting and building solutions & roadmaps for secure transformation of business onto the cloud.

Netskope

Staff Engineer: Security Research & Development

Oct 2016 – May 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Key initiatives:
Architecting and building threat scanning engines and services to detect malicious traits from document files which are a common medium of information exchange for SaaS environment.
Prototyping and building file feature extractors, parsers and pre-filter engines.
Building security product roadmap, competitive intelligence and project management activities related with threat research.
Helping with technical Pre-sales and post-sales conversations with strategic customers.
Thought leadership through patents, academic paper publications, white-papers and blogs.

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Cyber Security AVP, Global Technology

Jan 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Singapore

Core responsibilities include analyzing targeted malware attacks, DDOS attacks on critical banking infrastructures, end to end analysis of threat alerts occurring on SIEM tools like Arcsight, Splunk, Netwitness.
Content development to enhance current protection mechanisms for high Dollar value assets.
Splunk queries, dashboards, Arcsight rules, IDS/IPS signatures, Anti-virus infrastructure rules, Spam detection and remediation.
Building detection capabilities to detect insider threats like external file uploads, suspicious user behavior using system commands or changing properties, rules to monitor high intensity servers.
Segregating attack vectors based on threat models like Cyber Kill chain and Diamond model to assess the maturity level of the detection process.
Researching various trends in banking fraud and threats impacting financial institutions.

Symantec

Threat Research Engineer( Global Security Research & Response Team)

Jan 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pune Area, India

Work role included in-depth analysis, reproducing and reverse engineering of threats like exploits, malwares, 0-day attacks, web exploit toolkits, social networking scams and recent network based attacks.
Developing network and file based threat detection signatures for Symantec security product suites like Norton, End point protection etc.
File format analysis for exploits like PDF, Flash, Java and MS Office.
Machine Learning and Anomaly based detections of advance threats to enhance behavioral detection
capabilities.