security engineering · detection & response
Adel Karimi
I’m a security engineering lead focused on building detection and response systems at scale. I’ve worked in security since 2009, most of that in D&R. Currently leading D&R at Perplexity; previously an MTS at OpenAI and a Security Engineer and Tech Lead at Google.
- 01 Numbat Visibility into AI agent activity on endpoints, with on-device detection, pre-action blocking, and forensic reconstruction. write-up
- 02 Stinger Unprivileged endpoint deception for macOS and Linux using FIFO baits, local traps, and protected sessions.
- 03 Bumblebee Read-only developer endpoint scanner for package, extension, and developer-tool metadata. write-up
- 04 Santamon Lightweight macOS detection agent built on Santa’s Endpoint Security telemetry.
- 05 Finch TLS reverse proxy for client fingerprinting and real-time traffic actions: block, reroute, tarpit, or deceive.
- 06 Venator Kubernetes-native threat detection system that runs detection rules as scheduled jobs. write-up
- 07 Galah LLM-powered web honeypot for generating realistic responses to arbitrary HTTP requests.
- 08 airFP Open-source IEFP implementation for fingerprinting Wi-Fi implementations from management frames. IEFP write-up
- 09 FATT Network metadata and fingerprint extraction from pcaps and live traffic. RDP fingerprinting write-up
- 10 HASSH Co-developer of HASSH, the SSH client/server fingerprinting standard. utils patent
the rest lives on github.com/0x4D31