Abhishek Abhi Kumar

About Abhishek Abhi Kumar

I am a cybersecurity professional with 4+ years of hands-on experience specializing in Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) across enterprise and government environments.Currently, I work at IBM, where I conduct security assessments, vulnerability validation, and risk mitigation to help organizations strengthen their security posture. My day-to-day work involves identifying real-world attack paths, validating security controls, and supporting remediation efforts using industry-leading tools and frameworks.I have strong practical expertise with tools such as Burp Suite, Metasploit, Qualys, Nmap, Snort, and Kaspersky, and I have also built custom security programs for government use cases, including a file integrity monitoring solution and an email scraping tool.I hold GCSA and GCSE certifications from Akamai Guardicore and have delivered Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) operations for large enterprises such as EXL, EVALUE, and MOTHERSON, with a deep focus on microsegmentation strategy, implementation, and operational security.I am passionate about offensive security, attack surface reduction, and proactive defense, and I enjoy working on complex security challenges that have real business impact. Core Skills:VAPT • Penetration Testing • Microsegmentation • MSSP Operations • Network & Application Security • Risk Mitigation • Enterprise Security

Experience

1. Security Consultant

   IBM

   Jan 2025 — Present

Education

• Indira Gandhi National Open University

  Bsw public health(HIV/AIDS), Social Work

  2019 — 2022

• Soami nagar model school

  Sinor secondary school , Commerce with math

• Craw Cyber Security

  Cyber Security, Ethical Hacker