Waris Damkham

Offensive Security Engineer · AI Security Researcher · Security Builder

Focus: Red Teaming • AI Security • Identity & AppSec.

Focus areas include enterprise penetration testing, identity and application security, vulnerability research, and offensive tooling.

Black Hat Asia 2026 Arsenal Speaker
DEF CON Singapore 2026 Demo Labs
30 CVEs
3 IEEE Publications
Selected certifications: OffSec Certified Professional+ (OSCP+); OffSec Certified Professional (OSCP); Hack The Box Certified Penetration Testing Specialist; Practical Network Penetration Tester; Certified Red Team Professional; Certified by Altered Security Red Team Professional for Azure; Hack The Box Certified Web Exploitation Specialist; Web Application Penetration Tester eXtreme; Burp Suite Certified Practitioner; Practical AI Pentest Associate; Practical Mobile Pentest Associate; API Security Certified Professional; Hack The Box Certified Defensive Security Analyst; Practical SOC Analyst Associate; Hack The Box Certified Junior Cybersecurity Associate; Jr Penetration Tester (PT1); Cloud Digital Leader Certification; GitHub Foundations
10 Talks & Contributions

8kSec • AI Security Hands-on Track

AI & LLM Exploitation Challenges (All 10 Labs Completed)

A practical track covering prompt-level exploitation and model-level threats (evasion, backdoor analysis), plus supply-chain risk in AI/LLM pipelines.

Issuer: 8kSecDate: Jan/Feb 2026Focus: AI Red Teaming • Model Security • LLM Exploitation