Available for select engagements
Find the breach
before attackers do.
Samit Hota is a security expert and advisor working at the intersection of offensive engineering and business risk — helping founders, security leaders, and engineering teams close the gaps that scanners miss.
$ whoami
samit_hota · security researcher & advisor
$ ./scan --target=your-stack.io
scanning surface area...
[!] 3 exploitable misconfigurations found
[+] cloud IAM over-permissioning
[+] unauthenticated internal API
[+] stale third-party dependency (CVE)
$ ./fix --with=advisory
access hardened. risk posture: green
Trusted by security-conscious teams
10+
Years in Security
80+
Engagements Delivered
7
Public CVEs & Advisories
5
Fortune 500 / Unicorn Clients
About
Security that survives contact with real attackers.
I spend my time thinking like the people trying to break in — because that's the only way to build something that actually holds up. My background spans defensive Security Operations Center work, hands-on incident response, and offensive penetration testing and bug hunting, with a track record of mapping critical risk vectors and driving audit-ready security programs across complex digital infrastructure.
Beyond hands-on execution, I'm committed to security education and knowledge-sharing — publishing technical guides, vulnerability advisories, and threat actor breakdowns to help engineering teams and the wider security community stay ahead of real-world adversaries. I also keep a close eye on emerging technology and full-stack systems architecture, and advise founders and security leaders on building security into their business from the ground up.
Explore advisory servicesWhat I do
Four ways I help teams get ahead of risk
Offensive Security Assessments
Red team simulations, penetration testing, and adversarial emulation that mirror how real attackers actually operate — not a checkbox scan.
Cloud & Infrastructure Hardening
Architecture reviews and hardening programs across AWS, GCP, and Azure — closing the gaps between "compliant" and "actually secure."
Strategic Security Advisory
Fractional CISO-style guidance for founders and leadership teams — threat modeling, board reporting, and building security into the roadmap.
Incident Readiness & Response
Tabletop exercises, IR playbooks, and hands-on support when things go wrong — built before the breach, not after.
Disclosure bulletins
Latest security advisories
Cisco FMC Hard-Coded Password Flaw (CVE-2026-20316): Attack Paths & Triage
Analyzing CVE-2026-16812: Critical OS Command Injection in VeloCloud Orchestrator
FortiOS Patch Bypass (CVE-2025-68686) Exposes Persistence Vectors
Latest research
From the blog
The Seam of Failure: Why Identity Handoffs Break Cloud Security
The most dangerous vulnerabilities in cloud architecture exist not in provider code or customer apps, but in the identity handoff boundary between them.
Aug 3, 2026Cloud SecurityStop Guessing IAM: Building AWS Least-Privilege Policies from CloudTrail History
Stop writing over-privileged AWS IAM policies manually. Learn how to generate precise, least-privilege policies automatically using IAM Access Analyzer.
Aug 2, 2026Threat IntelligenceA Triage Framework for Dark Web Alerts That Won't Burn Out Your SOC
Learn how to build an automated, 3-tier triage framework to filter dark web monitoring noise, escalate real threats, and protect small security teams.
Aug 1, 2026Ready to stress-test your defenses?
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