Hi, I'm Owais Shariff.

Professionally paranoid.Occasionally right about it.

Cybersecurity consultant at Optiv Security. I spend my days studying how attackers think, so the people defending against them don't have to guess.

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Key Projects

Security
Research
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Hog C2

Threat Research · MITRE ATT&CK T1071.001

Vulnerability research demonstrating the Living Off Trusted Sites (LOTS) technique: exfiltrating data from fully patched Windows 11 systems with enterprise DLP protection active. Includes a CASB detection module using behavioral analytics to identify anomalous API patterns.

Python
PyQT
Notion API
MITRE ATT&CK
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WatchDog

Secrets Scanner · MITRE ATT&CK T1552

High-performance secrets scanner built in Rust achieving 500+ MB/s throughput to detect exposed credentials across codebases and cloud infrastructure. Includes a browser extension for real-time pre/post-deployment scanning.

Rust
Next.js
Electron
Manifest V3
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Agent Q

MCP Server · AI Tooling · Open Source

An MCP server that lets you create, manage, and organize specialized AI agents inside any MCP-compatible tool. Ships with 120+ pre-built agent templates spanning code review, DevOps, security, and more, available as an npm package.

TypeScript
MCP
Node.js
Turborepo
npm
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