- Experience
- 9+ years
- Based in
- Goa, IN
Kartik Durg
Founder · Violethat
Kartik Durg
Founder · Violethat
- 9+ yrs in Cybersecurity
Kartik has spent the last decade deep in the trenches of cybersecurity — reverse-engineering malware, simulating real-world adversaries, and more recently pushing the boundaries of security research.
Violethat was born from a simple, recurring frustration. As detection engineers reached out asking where can I actually practice this for real? the honest answer was: nowhere good enough. So he built it.
The original Detect-DB research repository is now integrated into the VioletHat challenge catalog — so practitioners can move from researching attacker techniques to understanding their behavior and engineering detections for them.
Areas of expertise
- Malware Analysis
- Adversary Simulation
- Detection Engineering
- Reverse Engineering
The best way to engineer a detection is to understand the threat. The best way to understand the threat is to study how it behaves.