Urvesh Thakkar

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India6 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Experienced in Cyber Defense and Blue Teaming.
  • Passionate mentor and trainer in cybersecurity.
  • Leadership role in anti-cybercrime initiatives.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cyber Security professional with expertise in incident response and threat hunting.

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Skills

Core Skills

Incident ResponseThreat HuntingCloud Security

Other Skills

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)XDR toolsetsThreat analysisAutomationSecurity policiesDetection engineeringThreat detectionSecurity Operations CenterPython (Programming Language)Palo Alto NetworksEDRCloud InfrastructureEndpoint SecurityQualysSecurity Tools

About

With an extensive background in cyber security - specific pertaining to Cyber Defense (Blue Team), I am a seasoned cyber security enthusiast working in various verticals of InfoSec. 🔍 I also love to contribute socially for bringing some small changes in the society. For this, I am appointed as President of BeFojji OpSec India (NGO) and leading the Anti Cyber Crime Society community. 🎙 My major experience comes from training & mentoring background. I love to mentor folks in various areas of cybersecurity and Blue Teaming domains. Worked as a trainer, coach, and mentor for many companies. 📚 Knowledge is the ultimate driving force for growth, and growth cannot cease! The key to achieving this is lifelong learning! By consistently engaging in learning activities or pertinent work/freelance possibilities, I'm striving to improve my knowledge, abilities, and perspectives. 👇 Checkout my Experience Tab for understanding me better.

Experience

6 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 1 mo
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

Arctic wolf

Senior Information Security Engineer

Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Circles

Senior Security Analyst - Cyber Defence

Oct 2024 – Aug 2025 · 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Informatica

3 roles

Associate Security Engineer

Jan 2024 – Oct 2024 · 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Handle security incidents and critical alerts from SIEM and XDR toolsets (ELK & Cortex), developing automations to reduce false positives.
  • Conduct in-depth threat analysis, intel investigations, threat hunts based on the latest intelligence and TTPs. Develop and implement orchestration and automation workflows to streamline incident response and reduce manual efforts. Creation of SOAR specific API flows on N8N and Shuffle for SIEM, XDR, CSPM, automating threat intelligence, deploying UI based bots to automate the day-to-day efforts.
  • Deploy, scale, and conduct POC(s) of security tools across environments. Implement and enforce security policies, procedures, and controls in line with industry standards and organizational requirements.
  • Engage in detection engineering to enhance the efficacy of security monitoring and alerting systems. Ensure compliance with regulatory and industry standards such as ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK.
  • Develop detection rules and correlation logic within tools to improve threat detection capabilities. Performing weekly threat hunt, log review and purple teaming exercises.
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)XDR toolsetsThreat analysisAutomationSecurity policiesDetection engineering+3

Apprentice R&D - Cloud Security Ops

Jul 2023 – Jan 2024 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Cloud SecOps Intern

Aug 2022 – Jul 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Here trying to explore various concepts pertaining to Cloud Security Products and handling of incidents by ticketing, remediating via Investigation and working with other security teams.
Security Operations CenterSecurity Information and Event Management (SIEM)Python (Programming Language)Palo Alto NetworksEDRCloud Infrastructure+5

Mindmajix

Cyber Security Instructor

Jan 2022 – Apr 2022 · 3 mos

  • MindMajix is a live and interactive e-learning platform that offers professional online education to help companies improve their profitability drastically.

Virtual cyber labs

Cyber Security Content Lead & Co-Founder

Apr 2021 – Nov 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

Content Development

Siem intelligence™

Cyber Security Instructor

Feb 2021 – Nov 2021 · 9 mos

  • My role at SIEM Intelligence is to train the clients and corporates on various defensive technologies and strategies like IBM QRadar, Splunk, MITRE ATT&CK, Threat Hunting & Incident Response.

The hacktivists™

Information Security Consultant

Nov 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • My role at The Hacktivists is to assist and consult the clients in suggesting various security solutions based on their needs. Apart from consulting, my role is to train the clients with hands-on practice on various technologies like IBM QRadar, Splunk, SOAR solutions etc.

Aicte

Cyber Security Intern

Aug 2020 – Sep 2020 · 1 mo

  • Due to my excellent performance during previous internship at ISAC, I was provided with an opportunity to work with All India Council of Technical Education - AICTE as a cyber security intern. My role was to test different websites and help to fix the flaws.

The cyber agents

Cyber Crime Advisor

Jul 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • My role was to manage the Investigation Team in technical and non-technical cases and guide them to conduct a proper investigation.

Information sharing and analysis center

Research Associate

Jun 2020 – Sep 2020 · 3 mos

  • My responsibility during this internship was to create vulnerable Docker containers via LAMP Dockers (Ubuntu based web apps). These dockers were then utilized by ISAC to provide hands-on practice for the students.

Cyber crime helpline llp

Cyber Executive R&D

Oct 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Pune Area, India

  • My role as a R&D Executive is to create projects on various topics like Advance Intelligence Gathering Techniques, Digital Investigations, Developing simple tools for system information gathering.

Maharashtra cyber

Researcher

Aug 2019 – Nov 2019 · 3 mos · Office Of Special Inspector General (IG) Of Police, Maharashtra Cyber

  • MH Cyber - Office of Special Inspector General of Police - During my internship, my day to day tasks were to actively monitor social media topics and create reports on abusive hashtags, fake profiles. Apart from social media monitoring, my tasks were to find new threats and vulnerabilities and perform intensive Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) utilizing various tools.

Unschool learning

Senior Coach

Feb 2019 – Feb 2022 · 3 yrs · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • As a Senior Coach at Unschool, my prime role is to create content on Ethical Hacking and maintain active student connection for mentoring.

Education

JSPMs Jayawantrao Sawant College of Engineering, Handewadi Road, Hadapsar, Pune 28.

Bachelor of Engineering - BE — BE IN COMPUTERS

Jan 2019 – Jan 2023

Cyber Crime Helpline LLP

DIPLOMA CCIC - Comprehensive Cyber Crime Investigation — Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism

Jan 2019 – Jan 2020

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