Sahil Thakur

Software Engineer 👨🏻‍💻x Cyber Security Expert 🛡️ || Talks about : Startup 🚀, Cyber Security , AI ML 🤖 #explorer #cybersecurity #softwareengineers

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A bit about me : #geek #geeksahil

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Check out my latest article: Every Security Incident Begins With An Assumption https://t.co/BDFI1UfU0g via @LinkedIn

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Check out my latest article: Nobody Knows Who Owns Trust Inside An Enterprise https://t.co/R3hPnPNs4f via @LinkedIn

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Check out my latest article: The Most Dangerous File Is the One Nobody Has Seen Before https://t.co/zyUyeEQI7S via @LinkedIn

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How many emails did you receive this week?

50?

500?

5,000 across your organization?

Now ask yourself a harder question:

How many attachments were downloaded?

And how many of those downloads would you confidently approve if they landed in your inbox today?

The uncomfortable reality is that most organizations make hundreds or thousands of trust decisions every day.

A PDF.

A ZIP archive.

A software installer.

A browser download.

A shared document.

A file from a supplier.

A file from a customer.

A file from someone pretending to be both.

And all it takes is one mistake.

Industry reports continue to show that the human element plays a role in roughly 60% of breaches, while phishing and social-engineering-driven attacks remain among the most common initial access vectors.

The typical workflow looks like this:

• A user receives an email or clicks a link

• A file is downloaded

• The file reaches the endpoint

• The user interacts with it

• Security controls begin evaluating behavior

• Alerts are generated

• Investigation starts

But what if the attachment is malicious?

What if it's a brand-new payload?

What if the hash has never been seen before?

What if the domain was registered yesterday?

What if there is no existing signature to match against?

By the time an investigation begins, the trust decision has already been made.

That's the gap.

Not a visibility gap.

A trust gap.

ThreatLens was built to introduce an additional verification layer before downloads are released to the endpoint.

Instead of relying solely on post-execution detection, ThreatLens evaluates multiple trust signals while the file is still in transit, including:

• File fingerprint analysis (SHA-256)

• URL and source reputation

• Domain age and registration intelligence

• IP and infrastructure intelligence

• Threat intelligence correlation

• Contextual risk analysis

• Enterprise allowlisting and blocklisting policies

• Centralized browser policy enforcement

• Download telemetry and audit visibility

The goal is not to replace EDRs, SIEMs, email security, or SOC teams.

The goal is to give organizations another opportunity to verify trust before execution occurs.

The screenshots below show ThreatLens operating in an enterprise workflow:

• Browser-level download interception

• Security verdict generation

• Organization-wide policy enforcement

• Centralized visibility for security teams

• Governance controls for MSPs, MSSPs, and enterprise environments

For MSPs, MSSPs, compliance teams, and security leaders, the question isn't whether users will continue downloading files.

They will.

The question is:

How many downloads enter your environment every week without anyone validating whether they should have been trusted in the first place?

I'm actively looking to connect with MSPs, MSSPs, cybersecurity consultancies, and enterprise security teams interested in browser-native security, download governance, and prevention-focused controls.

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@ashishguleria_ Cyber security is a scam. Nothing is secure and most of the cyber security companies are the biggest scammer theoretically and conceptually. Cyber security looks very strong, but in reality, it’s a scam

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Hot take:

The cybersecurity industry has normalized failure.

A file downloads.
A device gets compromised.
An alert fires.
An analyst investigates.
Then everyone celebrates because the detection worked.
Imagine praising a burglar alarm after your TV was already stolen.
Detection matters.

But prevention matters more.

That's why we built ThreatLens.

A browser-native security layer that evaluates trust before a file reaches the endpoint using:

• SHA-256 fingerprinting
• URL reputation
• IP & domain intelligence
• Infrastructure analysis
• Threat intelligence correlation

The safest incident is still the one that never happens.

Try ThreatLens:

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One of the biggest misconceptions in cybersecurity is that security means detection.

It doesn’t.

Detection means you discovered something happened.

Security means reducing the probability that it happens in the first place.

Think about it:

A phishing email arrives.
A user clicks.
A file gets downloaded.
The EDR generates an alert.
The SIEM creates a case.
The SOC starts an investigation.

Everything worked exactly as designed.

But the malicious file still reached the endpoint.

The attacker already got an opportunity.

For years, we’ve optimized for:
• More logs
• More alerts
• More detections
• More dashboards

Yet security teams are still overwhelmed.

Why?

Because visibility is not the same as prevention.

The real challenge is often much earlier:

👉 Should that download have been trusted?
👉 Should that file have reached the endpoint?
👉 Should that action have been allowed by default?

Modern threats increasingly use:
• Newly registered domains
• First-seen infrastructure
• Low-prevalence payloads
• Fresh attacker-controlled environments

Many of these don’t have reputation yet.

They aren’t known-bad.

But they aren’t known-good either.

That’s where security becomes a trust problem, not just a detection problem.

The future of cybersecurity isn’t replacing detection.

It’s making better trust decisions before compromise occurs.

Security is not:
“How quickly did we detect it?”

Security is:
“Could we have prevented it from becoming a problem in the first place?”

What’s your take?

Has the industry become too focused on visibility and not focused enough on trust?

#CyberSecurity #InfoSec #BlueTeam #SOC #ThreatIntelligence #ZeroTrust #SecurityEngineering #ThreatDetection

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This photo is very special to me; it's from 5-6 years ago when I started my first startup, Geek Jnr. It was about no-code tools for teaching people how to make beautiful websites, games, and mobile apps without writing a single line of code. The startup taught me a lot. I ran it for a few months, generated a few bucks, but then, due to my lack of knowledge about startups, formation, market entry, product work, and legal requirements, nothing was clear. There was nothing—just a website and me. I wouldn't consider it an unsuccessful startup because, although I couldn't run it properly, the knowledge gained was more valuable than the money. It was a learning experience on building startups, how things work, and a reminder to follow the proper path. Sometimes, shortcuts and incomplete knowledge are very harmful and won't lead to your destination. ♥️🚀👨🏻‍💻 #geeksahil #geeks #startupstories