I believe that we're eternal noobs aka perpetual learners, consistently acquiring new insights from our daily encounters and the esteemed members of the security community. I adhere to the traditional hacker philosophy of acquiring knowledge and passing it on to others. The primary objective of the Tactical Adversary project is to amass knowledge concerning diverse cyber security, red teaming and adversarial attack simulation tactics, presenting them uniquely. This platform serves as a space for me to share my personal reflections, thoughts and experiences. The Tactical Adversary project strives to curate and generate resources related to offensive security, red teaming, adversary attack simulation, survival, technology, philosophy, tradecraft, and the tactics, techniques, procedures employed by adversaries.
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 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. 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, 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, The Diana Initiative – Las Vegas, DEF CON 28 safemode - DCG Village, Opensource India, Security BSides Las Vegas, BSides San Francisco, Hack Space Con – Kennedy space center Florida, Nullcon – Goa, c0c0n – Kerala, BSides Delhi etc.