Naveen reddy

About

Cybersecurity undergraduate with hands-on experience in application security, offensive security, identity and access management, and AI/LLM security assessment. Built practical security projects and completed internships involving vulnerability assessment, remediation reporting, and enterprise security integrations.

Experience

• Tech Lead — Cyber Security Club
  2026 – Present

  Led CTF challenge development and competition infrastructure coordination for student security initiatives.

• Application Security Intern
  Supraja Technologies
  Sep 2025 – Jan 2026

  Executed manual and automated OWASP Top 10 assessments across web applications, identifying SQL Injection, XSS, Broken Authentication, and security misconfiguration vulnerabilities. Validated findings in Burp Suite and translated technical evidence into structured remediation reports for development and security stakeholders.

• Offensive Security Intern
  Inlighnx Global Pvt. Ltd.
  Jul 2025 – Oct 2025

  Performed reconnaissance, enumeration, attack-surface analysis, and vulnerability validation across controlled penetration-testing environments. Documented exploitable attack paths, impact, evidence, and mitigation strategies in professional vulnerability reports.

• Cyber Security Intern — Web Application VAPT
  Supraja Technologies
  May 2024 – Nov 2024

  Assessed authentication, authorization, input validation, and access-control mechanisms across web applications. Reported SQL Injection, XSS, access-control, and security-configuration weaknesses with reproducible evidence and prioritized remediation guidance.

Education

• 2027 SI
  B.Tech

  Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology

  Computer Science & Engineering (Cyber Security) · 2023 – 2027

  Computer Science & Engineering (Cyber Security) · 2023 – 2027

Skills

Tools / apps / platforms

Projects

• SENTINYL
  Python, Wazuh, Security Automation

  Enterprise threat detection platform with centralized log monitoring, rule-based detection, event correlation, automated alert generation, and false-positive reduction to surface high-priority SOC events faster.

• RansoWatch
  Python, Windows Event Logs, Sysmon

  Windows-based ransomware detection using Event Log analysis and real-time process monitoring through Sysmon and Procmon. Implemented risk scoring to flag suspicious encryption behavior and trigger early security alerts.

• PaperCheck
  Python, Document Forensics

  Local-first academic manuscript assessment engine covering 65+ failure vectors across research integrity, statistical rigor, compliance, and venue fit. Integrated IEEE, Elsevier, Nature, UGC 2018, and Retraction Watch citation-forensics checks.

• Chatbot Security Guard
  Python, LLM Security, Red Teaming

  Security guard layer for chatbot applications to prevent sensitive-information leakage and restrict unauthorized or unsafe requests. Includes strict policy rules and adversarial tests for prompt injection, RAG poisoning, privilege escalation, and trust-boundary violations.

Courses & certifications

• Fortinet Fundamentals in Cybersecurity · Fortinet
• Fortinet Certified Associate in Cybersecurity (FCA) · Fortinet

🏆 Achievements & awards

• 2nd — Nullcon SRM AP CTF 2026 (National) · 2026
• 2nd — ZeroSecure CTF 2026 · 2026
• 2nd — Recon-2-Root CTF 2026 · 2026
• Top 10 — CyberFest CTF 2026 · 2026
• Rank 13 — BreachPoint Finals 2026 · 2026

⚽ Extracurricular activities

• Tech Lead — Cyber Security Club, Sreenidhi Institute of Science & Technology

  Led CTF challenge development and competition infrastructure coordination for student security initiatives.