Manzar Lou

I lead full-scope adversary simulations and penetration tests for cloud, infrastructure, telecommunications, and government environments, focused on finding critical vulnerabilities and turning them into actionable recommendations.

I’ve built and deployed custom offensive tooling and phishing/social scripts using Python, C#, Golang, and mentored junior operators on exploitation techniques, OPSEC, and campaign reporting.

I also design detection and visibility workflows—building a SIEM solution with the ELK stack to improve threat visibility and incident detection—and perform secure code reviews for web and APIs.

Right now I’m pursuing a PhD in Machine Learning for Cyber Threat Intelligence, working on advanced threat detection and security, while continuing red teaming and offensive automation with platforms like Metasploit.