Gourav Thakur

Gourav Thakur has a diverse work experience in the field of cybersecurity and project engineering. Gourav has worked as a Cyber Security Engineer at Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB) since October 2022. Prior to that, they were employed as an SME-SOC at Locuz from January 2022 to September 2022. From January 2020 to January 2022, they served as a Senior Consultant at PwC India. Gourav worked as an Assistant Manager-Security Operations at GirnarSoft from October 2019 to January 2020. Gourav also gained valuable expertise as a Senior Security Engineer at Dimension Data from April 2018 to October 2019. Gourav'scareer began at Wipro, where they started as a Senior Project Engineer in January 2013 and worked there until April 2018.

Gourav Thakur completed their education in a chronological manner. Gourav first attended Government Engineering College Nilokheri from 2009 to 2012, where they obtained their High School Diploma in Computer Engineering. Gourav then pursued a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Information Systems at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani from 2013 to 2015. After that, they continued their education at the same institution and obtained a Master of Technology (M.tech) degree in Information Technology from 2015 to 2017.

In addition to their formal education, Gourav Thakur has acquired various certifications. Gourav obtained the following certifications:

- DevOps Plus from Cognixia in June 2021.

- AWS Cloud Computing from Cognixia USA in January 2021.

- Certified Incident Handler (ECIH) from EC-Council in October 2020.

- Foundations of Operationalizing MITRE ATT&CK from AttackIQ in October 2020.

- CyberArk Certified Trustee from CyberArk in September 2020.

- Qualys Certified Specialist from Qualys in September 2020.

- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) from EC-Council in December 2016.

- NSE 1 Network Security Associate from Fortinet in October 2020.

- NSE 2 Network Security Associate from Fortinet in October 2020.

- Internet of Things certification (obtained month and year not provided) from Cognixia.