Abdul Ghafoor

Abdul Ghafoor is an Application Security Specialist with over a decade of experience in secure application development and vulnerability assessment. He holds a Ph.D. in Application Security from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), where his research focused on secure-by-design applications, shift-left security, and the use of AI in cybersecurity.

He specializes in source code analysis and comprehensive risk and vulnerability assessment using manual, automated, and AI-driven techniques, with a strong focus on modern architectures, including microservices and AI pipelines. His work supports critical security needs such as secure data sharing, data sovereignty, and compliance-driven application security.

Abdul has designed and led application security initiatives across the telecommunications and technology sectors, aligning development practices with core security principles, confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA), and industry standards such as ISO/IEC 27000, NIST, and OWASP ASVS.