Nipun Parekh

He has worked on many complex engagements in his previous roles across the Big4 accounting firms as well as boutique consulting firms related to ransomware attacks and negotiations, business email compromise, data exfiltration, intellectual property protection and software license forensics.

Nipun’s career background includes:

• Cyber assurance: Act as a trusted advisor, develop strategic and risk management strategies for investigations and engagements by collaborating with multiple stakeholders within organisations to achieve key business objectives such as process optimization, enhanced data collection and analysis, risk evaluation, risk mitigation, and meeting external third-party compliance requirements.
• Ransomware negotiations: Negotiate with threat actors to gain proof of exfiltration, proof of decryption, lower ransom demands as well as obtain threat intelligence from covert sources to better understand threat actor reputation and behaviours.
• Threat intelligence: Leverage dynamic tools and technologies to uncover novel attack techniques, monitor and catalogue changes in activity group tradecraft, and generate custom alerts.
• Fraud investigations: Oversee global investigations by gathering and evaluating data from a variety of systems and technologies to determine the modus operandi.
• Intellectual property protection and software license forensics: Assist organizations in maintaining contractual obligations with regards to software used by their employees using sophisticated tools and custom scripts.