PARTH D. MANIAR

I have an overall 12 years of experience in systems security. With six years in cybersecurity; covering security including cloud security architecture, implementation, operations, incident response, purple team lead. It also included cybersecurity improvements and cyber threat intelligence. Currently, I am an Associate Director with a Big 4 consulting firm.

I also have six years of experience in cybersecurity architecture and cloud security. I was lead systems security architect and designed objective specific information systems.

While at WillisTowersWatson, I was the global lead for Cyber Defence Centre. I managed hybrid SOC, SIEM architecture and engineering, vulnerability management, threat hunting, purple teaming, personnel management including hiring, training & performance Management of 11 TIER - 2 analysts.

Currently, I hold CISSP, CISM, CISA and SSCP certifications in good standing. Furthermore, I have multiple commendation letter for my service at the National Investigation Agency, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.

• I am a contributor to leading threat intelligence platforms such as VirusTotal where he has over 10,000 new malware (zero days) and a total of 50,000 samples submitted.

• On AbuseIPDB (https://www.abuseipdb.com/user/35361) & IBM X-Force over 400,000+ IPs have been reported through my global network of honeypots. 

• I am an official contributor to the SANS Honeypot project. https://github.com/DShield-ISC/dshield/blob/master/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md 

• My COVID-19 Cyber Threat Intel repository is officially referred by US-GOV (Alert: AA20-099A: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-099a), UK-National Cyber Security Centre notification & Splunk, Bitdefender, Dice and RiskIQ amongst other security vendors. Refer link - https://github.com/parthdmaniar/coronavirus-covid-19-SARS-CoV-2-IoCs/

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Besides systems security, I love going on long drives, rock music and photography.