Nathaniel Profile

About Me

• My name is Nathaniel Fernandes

• Been working in tech for over the last 8 years

• Started working at the age of 16, from development to architecture to management in the tech domain.

Notable Accomplishments

• Got my CISSP at the age of 23

  • Credly

• Spoken at multiple conferences/local communities, including Google Dev Feast, Hack the Box, and Breachforce

  • Breachforce

• Keynote speaker at Responsible Netism (2017)

  • Social engineering high-value targets

    • https://marathi.indiatimes.com/maharashtra/mumbai-news/work-together-for-cyber-security/articleshow/60784898.cms

• Vidyalankar School of Information Technology (2024)

  • Breaking into cybersecurity

    • https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7098597108487745536/

• After being awarded a grant by Honourable Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw

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• Most recently, discovered a backdooring mechanism in AWS EC2 Connect

  • From Curiosity to Backdoor: How I Found a Stealthy Persistence Technique in EC2 Instance Connect

What I Do

• Work in offensive, defence and architecture to also develop security tools

• Most recently, it included breaking into a power grid substation

• Also dealt with testing the 5G infrastructure.

• I also deal with the general offensive side like testing web application. but also deal with the defence on improving the visibility across the environment.

• Currently, I am more focused on the cloud security front on AWS.

Public Interviews YouTube

John Hammond

He Passed CISSP At Age 23

Grant Collins

Build Practical Experience in Cybersecurity Today (Cybersecurity Homelabs)