About me

Swapneel Patnekar is the Chief Security researcher and CEO of Shreshta IT Technologies Pvt. Ltd. , a DNS security and threat intelligence company based in India.

He has 15 years of experience in information security. Swapneel is a Liaison Member of the Forum of Incident Responders(FIRST) and the co-chair of the DNS Abuse SIG at FIRST. He also has been on the board of India Internet Engineering Society(IIESoc).

He has also delivered technical workshops to law enforcement agencies on countering cyber crime.

He is a prolific speaker and has recently presented at numerous international cyber crime conferences in Latvia, France and Singapore.

He also volunteers as a FIRST trainer and has most recently delivered a workshop on Fundamentals of Cyber Threat Intelligence in Kazakhstan.

Since 2019, he has been an APNIC Community Trainer and has delivered technical workshops in Bhutan, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

He can be reached at swapneel [at] brainattic dot in