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Divya Salu John

Bengaluru

Summary

Dynamic security leader with extensive experience at Flipkart, specializing in product security and architecture review. Expert in threat modeling and pentesting, I effectively guide engineering teams to adopt optimal security standards. Proven ability to deliver actionable security recommendations while fostering collaboration and training developers to enhance security awareness.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead

CRED
07.2022 - Current
  • Scan and assess vulnerabilities affecting infra and applications.
  • Derive a contextualized view for the vulnerabilities to rightly prioritize the vulnerabilities and manage the scale of issues identified.
  • Quarterly reports for compliance auditing and assessments

Senior Product Security Lead

Flipkart Internet Private
05.2017 - 06.2022
  • Review the design and architecture for applications/services to be released
  • Carry out threatmodeling and threat profiling for upcoming products and services.
  • Create data and functionality map for the services to build context of the service and provide curated security recommendations for the product owners and developers.
  • Guide the pentesting of the services and translate the risk and mitigations to the engineering owners.
  • Build security gates and pipelines/processes for productionizing a service
  • Provide security trainings for the developers.



Security Analyst

PA Consulting
05.2015 - 05.2017
  • Pentesting and reporting for 100+ web applications and mobile apps

Pentest Analyst

Aujas
05.2014 - 05.2015
  • Pentesting and onsite consulting for many banks and services in Bengaluru

Pentest Analyst

Paladion Networks
05.2011 - 05.2014
  • Conducted penetration testing for 100+ web and citrix applications
  • Prepared reports explaining the security issues and detailing the recommendations
  • Onsite consulting in Malaysia and Bengaluru for many popular Indian and international banks.
  • Worked as a consultant for a year with Sony

Education

Computer And Information Sciences

Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering
Kerala

Certification - Offensive Certified Security Professional (OSCP)

Offensive Security

Certification - CREST Practitioner Security Analyst

CREST
United Kingdom

Certification - Certified Security Testing Associate

PA Consulting
United Kingdom

Skills

  • Product security expert in reviewing product design and architecture
  • Provide data and application security guidelines for building secure products
  • Collaborate with the engineering leaders to apprise of security standards followed in the industry and embrace optimal security standards to be adapted

Timeline

Lead

CRED
07.2022 - Current

Senior Product Security Lead

Flipkart Internet Private
05.2017 - 06.2022

Security Analyst

PA Consulting
05.2015 - 05.2017

Pentest Analyst

Aujas
05.2014 - 05.2015

Pentest Analyst

Paladion Networks
05.2011 - 05.2014

Computer And Information Sciences

Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering

Certification - Offensive Certified Security Professional (OSCP)

Offensive Security

Certification - CREST Practitioner Security Analyst

CREST

Certification - Certified Security Testing Associate

PA Consulting
Divya Salu John