Saksham Tushar

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Security researcher & threat hunting educator. I build THOR-HQ — free, open, hands-on cyber threat hunting & detection engineering content, from lab setup to real hunt playbooks.

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About Me

Saksham Tushar

I currently head Security Operations and Tactical Security Functions at CRED India. I've worked as an information security professional across multiple global SOCs, building threat-hunting programs and turning them into business-as-usual practice for high-profile clients and companies — including deploying threat-hunting capability on the cloud.

I'm a security analytics enthusiast who loves coffee and automation, and I built THOR as a restriction-free way to keep studying threat hunting on my own terms — using open-source tools instead of enterprise EDR budgets I don't have.

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Why build this project?

Restriction-free setup to enable me to study and learn: Threat Hunting is a mythical subject, different teams do it differently and that's the beauty of it, but what doesn't change is the nature of the same sample threat that is hunted — no matter what EDR/security platform you use for hunting, malware will behave independently of your security stack, until and unless you have next-gen polymorphic customized malware code in your environment. Since I don't have enough resources and financial support to buy an enterprise EDR to study the behaviors of malware, this project is an attempt to build something from open-source technologies (a huge shout out to the open-source community for building and contributing great projects to enable people like me to independently research and study the latest security samples and threats).

Where are the Jupyter Notebooks and additional resources?

On GitHub

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