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I'm Davishankar Gaur
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About Me
I’m a cybersecurity professional with an M.S. in Computer Science (Cybersecurity) from Boston University (Jan 2025) and hands-on experience across SOC operations, vulnerability management, and ISO 27001 audit readiness. I’ve worked with security platforms like Qualys, CrowdStrike, Netskope, Mimecast and Seceon. I enjoy building practical security projects like a Log4j vulnerability scanner and ML-based malware detection. I’m CompTIA Security+ certified, Associate of (ISC)² (CISSP passed), and AWS Certified Security – Specialty certified.
email : davishankar9822@gmail.com
place : USA
Boston University, Massachusetts, USA
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India
Associate of ISC2 after clearing the CISSP exam.
Cleared the Security+ exam.
Participated in NCAE Cybergames representing Boston University in a team of 8 people. Finished 1st in the Northeast region and came 5th nationwide.
Cleared the AWS Certified Security exam.
Received an award at Tavant for excellent contribution to the Information Security team.
Jun 2024- Aug 2024
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
Jun 2019 - July 2019
Full MLOps pipeline for phishing / network threat detection with data ingestion, validation, transformation, training, MLflow tracking, batch prediction, Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions) and AWS (S3 + EC2) deployment.
Developed a web application incorporating integrated defenses against SQLi attacks, including encryption, session timeouts configured to 30 minutes, and robust brute-force protection protocols.
Spearheaded the design of a Log4j Vulnerability scanner that detected susceptibility on test servers with simulated vulnerabilities.
Trained a classifier achieving upwards of 90% detection accuracy on malicious executables (features included MD5, entropy).