About the Authors

Tarun Vashishth, a seasoned professional in the field of cybersecurity, brings a wealth of hands-on experience and knowledge to his latest endeavor, Cyber Forensics Up and Running. With an extensive career spanning renowned organizations such as McKinsey & Company, IAC, and Philips Electronics NA, Tarun has played pivotal roles in setting up enterprise security operations centers, has led incident response, and threat hunt teams, oversaw security engineering, set up and led automation teams in cyber security. 

His professional journey is marked by achievements that include leading the engineering team as product manager to build and deliver a custom threat intel platform and SIEM, reporting bugs in a well-renowned EDR solution and in a phishing simulation platform, and leading the implementation of the custom incident case management system. 

Tarun’s relentless pursuit of learning cyber security started in 2011 by acquiring the knowledge and certificate of Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and then getting a master’s degree in computer/cyber forensics and counters. He is also a recipient of the Sourcefire (now part of Cisco) student scholarship. He has acquired a couple of certificates and training from SANS, EC-Council, AWS, Microsoft, Splunk, CarbonBlack(now part of VMware), Agile Foundation, and Carnegie Mellon University.