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, security researcher, red team consultant, 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. In the past, he managed offensive security operations for Envestnet, Inc., held the position of Deputy Manager - Cyber Security at Nissan Motor Corporation, and prior to that, he worked as a sr. security analyst at EY.
As the founder of Adversary Village (https://adversaryvillage.org/), Abhijith spearheads a community initiative focused on adversary simulation, adversary-tactics, purple teaming, threat actor/ransomware research-emulation, and offensive cyber security.
Abx also acts as the Lead of DEF CON Group DC0471, he is actively involved in leading the tacticaladversary.io project. Abhijith has spoken at security conferences such as Nullcon, c0c0n, BSides, DEF CON 28 safemode - DCG Village, The Diana Initiative, Opensource India, Adversary Village at DEF CON 29, DEF CON 30, RSAC 2023 etc.