Abhishek Simkhada
Abhishek is Offensive Security and Security Controls Assurance leader with 9 years’ experience delivering adversary simulations, red teaming, penetration testing, and secure configuration assessments across cloud, SaaS, hardware, OT, and emerging Generative AI technologies. He is a trusted advisor to government and private-sector organisations, with a strong developer background enabling discovery of deep, non-obvious security issues.
Abhishek is experienced in defining security testing strategy, methodologies, and adversary simulation programs that drive measurable risk reduction.
Abhishek currently works as Red Team - Technical Lead for ING Group. Through his consulting background, he is highly experienced in delivery of high-profile offensive security engagements for private and government organisations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific and Middle East.
Abhishek enjoys security research in his spare time and presented in major conferences such as BlackHat USA, SecEDUCon and AISA Cybercon.
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