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Kartekeyaan Raghavan

Kartekeyaan Raghavan

M.Tech (TA)

IIT Hyderabad

Research interests

  • Offensive Security and Automated VAPT
  • LLM Agents for Security
  • Detection Engineering and Threat Hunting
  • Security Operations and Incident Response
  • Adversarial Machine Learning

Mr. Kartekeyaan Raghavan is currently pursuing his M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, specializing in Network and Information Security. He is working under the guidance of Dr. Saurabh Kumar on autonomous vulnerability assessment and penetration testing (VAPT) agents built on locally deployable small language models.

He is also a core member of the Institute’s Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC), where he contributes to security operations and initiatives to strengthen the security of the Institute’s IT infrastructure.

Prior to joining IIT Hyderabad, he worked as a Cloud Engineer and SOC Analyst at LTIMindtree, where he handled end-to-end incident response across endpoint, cloud, and DLP environments using Microsoft Defender XDR, and carried out MITRE ATT&CK aligned threat hunting. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH, EC-Council) and a Microsoft Certified Security Operations Analyst (SC-200).

He completed his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Mumbai in 2023.

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