Assistant Director at Government of India
India
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- Assistant Director at Government of India
- Past
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- Strategic Advisor at Torrid Networks
- Senior Threat Analyst at Symantec (SecurityFocus) Canada
- Project Manager at Third Brigade (acquired by Trend Micro)
- Founder at SigInt Network Defense
- Security Researcher at Blue Lane Technologies (acquired by VMWare)
- Information Security Consultant (Trainee) at Network Intelligence India
- Security Consultant at Independent
- Education
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- Panjab University
- Punjab Technical University
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Pukhraj Singh’s Summary
• An entrepreneur with multi-pronged exposure to information security, possessing excellent business acumen.
• Speaker at international security conferences (Hack-in-the-Box 2005, SyScAN 2005, CII-PwC Business Security Summit, OWASP AppSec Asia 2008, etc.)
• Published writer with articles featured at websites like www.securityfocus.com.
• Quoted in Indian print media.
• Experience in single-handedly bootstrapping offshore security R&D base for a recognized product start-up with great success.
• Experienced security trainer and evangelist, with many commercial security workshops to the credit.
• Among 60 innovators selected for the Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program.
• A keen interest in the Indian venture capital, offshoring and KPO sectors.
• I am passionate about creating new ventures, lead challenging projects and incubate innovation in information security.
Pukhraj Singh’s Specialties:
Entrepreneurial activities in information security (intrusion prevention, vulnerability research, malware research, threat analysis, application security, managed services, product/team management, evangelism, business development, lead generation, branding, marketing, sales, SaaS, SLA management, competitive/industry analysis), offshored product and productized services, outsourcing, Indian venture capital market, venture creation, public speaking, Creative Destruction.
Pukhraj Singh’s Experience
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Assistant Director
Government of India
(Computer & Network Security industry)
January 2009 — Present (1 year )
Cyber intelligence, cyber counter-intelligence, cyber warfare, technical intelligence (TECHINT), strategic affairs. Paying back my dues to the nation.
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Strategic Advisor
Torrid Networks
(Computer & Network Security industry)
December 2007 — January 2009 (1 year 2 months)
I am acting as an advisor to this firm. Torrid is a pioneer in providing onsite and offshore IT infrastructure management and information security services. Their punch line: "Quality of Big-4, delivered to SMBs".
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Senior Threat Analyst
Symantec (SecurityFocus) Canada
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SYMC; Computer & Network Security industry)
November 2006 — September 2007 (11 months)
Member of the Symantec (SecurityFocus) DeepSight Threat Analyst Team located at Calgary, providing global actionable intelligence and response via their flagship service, The DeepSight Threat Management System. Industry’s foremost security team serving clients like law-enforcement, governments, Fortune 50 and media. Powered by the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, the service is an authoritative source of tailored information about known and emerging vulnerabilities, threats, risks and global attack activity.
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Project Manager
Third Brigade (acquired by Trend Micro)
(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)
September 2005 — June 2006 (10 months)
Third Brigade is a intrusion prevention product start-up headquartered in Ottawa, founded by highly-respected security veterans who co-founded Entrust. I was primarily responsible setting up the Security Center team in Bangalore from ground-up (India employee #1). I also played a key role in blueprinting and strategizing in moving the company from 'catching-up' phase to beating-the-competition. The Security Center was mainly involved in vulnerability research, protocol decoding, signature development and QA.
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Founder
SigInt Network Defense
(Computer & Network Security industry)
March 2005 — September 2005 (7 months)
SigInt Network Defense was an information security consulting company and was a germination of the initial business plan I had in mind. Apart from being a one-man company, it was more of a learning experience for me. It was discontinued due to partnership and investor issues. However, in a mere few months of operation, I put this company on the national map and was quite well known in North India. It came under the radar of a few angel investors too.
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Security Researcher
Blue Lane Technologies (acquired by VMWare)
(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)
July 2004 — February 2005 (8 months)
Worked on the industry’s first virtual patch proxy IPS. The core idea behind this company is an avant-garde security appliance which averts intrusions in a unique way.
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Information Security Consultant (Trainee)
Network Intelligence India
(Computer & Network Security industry)
March 2004 — June 2004 (4 months)
Network Intelligence is a leading provider of network security services and products across the globe. My profile involved performing penetration tests on leading banks and portals.
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Security Consultant
Independent
(Computer & Network Security industry)
January 2002 — January 2003 (1 year 1 month)
Was active as a freelance network security consultant. I worked on security hardening, administration, tool development, security education, awareness, ethical hacking seminars for organizations like Bank of Punjab, BSNL Punjab, CSIR, ERNET, Quark Media House, Punjab Government, Spice Telecom, Indian Law Portal, MGSIPAP.
Pukhraj Singh’s Education
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Panjab University
MA , Political Science , 2009 — 2011 (expected)
National Security, Disarmament, Nuclear Proliferation, Intelligence Reforms, Public Policy
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Punjab Technical University
B.Tech , Information Technology , 2000 — 2004
- Activities and Societies:
- Head of ISTE (Indian Society for Technical Education ) chapter.
Chief organizer of the national level technical festival, TechFiesta 2003, which garnered massive sponsorships at its time.
Resident whisteblower and renegade at my college (Malout Institute of Management & Information Technology, Malout, Punjab)
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Pukhraj Singh’s Interests:
Reading, writing, thinking, exchanging blows with the system, falling down and rising up strong, existentialism, singularity, transhumanism, psychology, epistemology, individual and collective super-consciousness, anarcho-primitivism, neo-luddism, humor, politics, various forms of societal control, detection of cyclic patterns in the world, theosophy, comparative mythology, vedanta, bhagavad gita, advaitism, esotericism, anthroposophy, monism, psychoanalysis, occultism, symbology, freedom, India, new age, national socialism, paleoconservatism, radical orthoxody etc.
Pukhraj Singh’s Groups:
Founder - OWASP Delhi, Founder - Information Security Special Interest Group of India, SANOG, VC Circle, VentureWoods.org
Pukhraj Singh’s Honors:
Selected among 60 qualifiers across all over India for the Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Program, created to enhance the growth and development of India's entrepreneurial economy. It was wholly funded by Lockheed Martin, and was developed with the assistance of the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas, and FICCI (http://www.indiainnovates.in).
Media coverage:
- Vikriya's founders, Pukhraj Singh and Dhruv Soi raise their concerns on cyber-terror in the latest edition of the Outlook magazine.
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20080929&fname=Cover+Story&sid=5
- Coverage in ComputerWorld.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9032442&source=rss_news10
- Interview in The Tribune quoting my research on the susceptibility of Indian networks.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050605/cth1.htm#18
- Coverage in Indian Express.
http://www.securesynergy.com/media/newsitems/2005/044/index.htm
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