Darshap Nayak
M.Sc. Cybersecurity
Darshap Nayak is a cybersecurity professional and core member of the AVKAS & Co. Governance Risk & Compliance team, with a background in digital forensics, incident response, threat monitoring, and security consulting. He holds an M.Sc. in Cybersecurity from the National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU) and brings hands-on expertise across SIEM operations, XDR/VDR analysis, and digital forensics, with a focus on translating technical threat information into clear risk insight for management and boards.
As a Security Consultant with KPMG Global Services (KGS) in Pune from March 2022 to January 2024, Darshap delivered security consulting within KGS’s security practice, focusing on digital forensics, incident response, and threat monitoring. He performed DFIR investigations for enterprise clients to identify root causes and containment strategies, operated as a SIEM analyst monitoring, triaging, and responding to security alerts across client environments, and carried out XDR/VDR analysis to investigate advanced threats across endpoints and networks.
His work included more than 12 large scale incident response investigations, including ransomware and insider threat cases; forensic examination of over 200 endpoints, covering registry hives, event logs, and memory dumps; SIEM operations on ArcSight ESM and Splunk, with more than 20 correlation rules created to detect lateral movement; and malware analysis of over 80 samples, including YARA rule development that improved false positive reduction by 40%. He also produced forensic reports and executive-level summaries supporting digital evidence for legal proceedings.
Earlier in his career, Darshap was a Cybersecurity Associate at Sattrix Technologies, Ahmedabad (March 2021 – September 2021), where he monitored more than 200 security alerts a month using ESET EDR and ArcSight SIEM, correlated logs across firewalls, IDS/IPS, and proxy servers to identify threat activity, and improved incident escalation efficiency by 25% through enhanced first-level response. He then worked as a DFIR Analyst in Ahmedabad from October 2021 to March 2022, before joining KPMG.
Core strengths & capabilities
- Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) – ransomware and insider threat investigations
- Endpoint forensics – registry hives, event logs, and memory dumps
- SIEM operations & alert triage (ArcSight ESM, Splunk, ESET EDR)
- Correlation rule design for detecting lateral movement
- XDR / VDR analysis across endpoints and networks
- Malware analysis & YARA rule development
- Log correlation across firewalls, IDS/IPS, and proxy servers
- Forensic reporting & executive-level summaries for legal proceedings
Darshap’s certifications include CrowdStrike Falcon Champions – Next-Gen SIEM Associate (2026), SentinelOne SIREN CERT (2022), Micro Focus ArcSight Specialist Presales Engineer (2021), and Secureworks XDR Analyst and VDR Analyst (2021). As part of the AVKAS & Co. GRC and DFIR team, he brings an investigator’s rigour and practical security operations experience, helping clients understand their exposure to cyber threats and the evidence behind every finding.