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Short bio
Abhijith B R has more than a decade of experience in offensive cyber security. He is building BreachSimRange.io and is involved with multiple organizations as an independent consultant. He managed offensive security at Envestnet, Inc., was Dy. Manager of Cybersecurity at Nissan Motor Corporation, and before that a Sr. Security Analyst at EY. He is the Founder of Adversary Village at DEF CON.
Detailed bio
Abhijith B R, also known by the pseudonym Abx, has more than a decade of experience in the offensive cyber security industry. He is a professional hacker, offensive cyber security specialist, red team consultant, security researcher, trainer and public speaker.
Currently, he is building BreachSimRange.io as a founder, director and involved with multiple organizations as a consulting specialist, to help them build offensive security operations programs, improve their current security posture, assess cyber defense systems, bridge the gap between business leadership and security professionals.
Abhijith was responsible for building and managing offensive security operations and adversary simulation for a prominent FinTech company called Envestnet, Inc. After Envestnet, he spent several years as a freelance offensive cyber security consultant, building offensive security teams for FinTech, defense and government organizations. In the past, he held the position of Deputy Manager - Cyber Security at Nissan Motor Corporation, and prior to that, he worked as a Senior Security Analyst at EY.
As the founder of Adversary Village (https://adversaryvillage.org/), Abhijith spearheads a community initiative focused on adversary simulation, adversary-tactics, purple teaming, threat actor/ransomware research-emulation, and offensive cyber security. Adversary Village is part of DEF CON Villages and organizes hacking villages at prominent events such as the DEF CON Hacking Conference, RSA Conference etc.
Abx also acts as the Lead of an official DEF CON Group named DC0471. He is actively involved in leading the Tactical Adversary project (https://tacticaladversary.io/) a personal initiative that centers around offensive cyber security, adversary attack simulation and red teaming tradecraft.
Abhijith has spoken at various hacking and cyber security conferences such as, DEF CON hacker convention - Las Vegas, RSA Conference - San Francisco, DEF CON Singapore, DEF CON Middleeast - Bahrain, Black Hat USA Arsenal, The Diana Initiative - Las Vegas, DEF CON 28 safemode - DCG Village, Opensource India, Security BSides Las Vegas, BSides San Francisco, BSides Tampa, Hack Space Con - Kennedy space center Florida, Nullcon - Goa, c0c0n - Kerala, BSides Delhi etc.
