Stories of Infosec Journeys - Indian Edition

Stories of Infosec Journeys - In conversation with Swapneel Patnekar


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In this episode, Swapneel talks about his infosec journey,about his current work, his experience of being a community trainer and some cool projects he worked on. He has some really nice advice for people starting out the infosec industry. 

Tune in to this episode to learn more. 

Speaker Intro

Swapneel is the CEO of Shreshta IT, who has worked in Information Security for 15+ years.

He is an APNIC Community Trainer and has delivered workshops in Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and Bangladesh on Information Security, Network Security, and DNS/DNSSEC. He is also a member of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) DNS Abuse SIG. He has also delivered technical workshops to Law Enforcement on countering cybercrime. 

He is a prolific speaker, and most recently, he has presented at numerous international security and privacy conferences such as btNOG-9, sdns2021, SANOG37, BSides Dayton, 2020 FIRST Virtual Symposium for Latin America and the Caribbean, APNIC50, UKNOF July, APNIC NFH SEA, LKNOG3.

Aside from his day job, he spends time reporting abuse (malicious domain names) in the DNS namespace to the stakeholders.

You can reach out to him on,

Twitter - @pswapneel

LinkedIn - Swapneel Patnekar

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    Stories of Infosec Journeys - Indian EditionBy Shruthi Kamath

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