Umar Farook
Staff Security Engineer at Fools Of Security
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolUmar Farook is a Staff Security Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience in offensive security, specializing in application and content protection for large-scale streaming platforms. He leads secure-by-design initiatives, threat modeling, and Secure SDLC practices at JioHotstar/Disney+ Hotstar, driving architecture reviews and org-wide security program maturity. Deep expertise in reverse engineering, exploit development, fuzzing, and binary analysis is complemented by building open-source automation tools that leverage instrumentation, taint analysis, and symbolic execution. He has a track record hardening playback security, DRM, forensic watermarking, and multi-CDN defenses to reduce piracy and critical business risk. An OSCE-certified researcher, Umar spends his free time reversing proprietary DRM and antivirus systems and has published tooling and research used to automate parts of reverse engineering workflows. Based in Bengaluru, he blends senior security leadership with practitioner-level vulnerability research and tool development.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at Mepco Schlenk Engineering College
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (96)
waf10
modsecurity10
iis10
traffic10
ghidra10
sre10
reverse-engineering10
remote-administration-tool10
web-platform9
methodology9
api9
web-application9
web-application-firewall9
security9
introspection9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
umarfarook882/Blog-Views-Bot
May 2017 - May 2018
To increase blog user view traffic on website.
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year
remote-administration-tooltortraffic
umarfarook882/PyNessus_Generate_Activation_Code
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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