Mustakim Khan

Mustakim Khan is a seasoned cybersecurity professional currently serving as an Associate Technical Lead at Arete since June 2025, focusing on threat detection and monitoring via SentinelOne XDR and CrowdStrike EDR. Previously, Mustakim held the role of Senior Associate Incident Response at the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) from August 2023 to June 2025, where responsibilities included incident monitoring on LogRhythm SIEM, threat hunting, and operational enhancement through detailed log analysis and IOC blocking. Prior experience includes positions at CyberNX Technologies Pvt. Ltd. as a Security Operations Center Analyst L1 and WorldSec Technologies LLP as an SOC Analyst, where expertise was developed in various SIEM tools and incident response operations. Mustakim holds a Master of Science in IT from Reena Mehta College and a Bachelor of Science in IT from K.P.B Hinduja College of Commerce.