Dr. SIFAT MUTTAKIM
Faculty,
Department of Cyber Security,
Nation Cyber Tech Institute - NCTI, Banlgadesh
About
Dr. Sifat Muttakim is a cybersecurity researcher and MBBS Doctor specializing in offensive security, digital forensics, and adversary emulation. With hands-on experience as a CTF team leader, instructor, and trainer for organizations such as NRB Bank, Adware IT, and Cyber Bangla, he has built strong expertise in penetration testing, DFIR, OSINT, Active Directory exploitation, and SOC operations.
He has achieved top rankings in national and international cybersecurity competitions, including HackTheBox, Leetcon, IEEE CTF Bootcamp, and NSDA Cyber Security. With strong leadership, technical depth, and a passion for cyber defense, Dr. Sifat continues to contribute to the security community through training, writeups, and red-team research.
Experience
Trainer
NRB Bank
Instructor
Adware IT
Instructor
Cyber Bangla
Team Leader
Red_Rebels
Achievements
Champion
MIST Leetcon 2023
Champion
Cyber Security (NSDA) 2021
Champion
IEEE CTF Bootcamp 2021
Competitor
World Skills Goyang, Korea 2022 SE
1st Runner-Up
IUTCTF 2024
1st Runner-up
Hackathon 2025 organized by BTRC
3rd rank -Bangladesh
Worldwide 93rd
HackTheBox Season III, 2023
4th Runner Up
SUST SWE Technovent CTF 2023
4th Runner Up
Flag Hunt 2022
Best Project Reporter
Digital Forensic in IEEE CTF
Skills
Penetration Testing & Vulnerability Assessment
Metasploit, Burpsuite, Nessus, Acunetix, Cobalt Strike, Sliver, Covenant, Havoc C2
Active Directory Penetration Testing
Kerberoasting, PTH, ADCS, Ticketing (Bloodhound, crackmapexec, netmapexec, Impacket)
CTF
Cryptography, Steganography, Digital Forensics Incident Response, OSINT, Boot2root
Blue Teaming
Memory forensics (Volatility), Autopsy, Network analysis (Wireshark, Tshark), Splunk, WaZuh SIEM
Red Teaming
Exploitation, Privilege escalation, Pivoting, Persistence and Defense evasion technique
DevSecOps
AWS Instances, LB & WAF
Programming Language
Python and bash
Operating System
Microsoft Windows, Kali Linux and Different Linux distros
Server Administration
Configuration and maintenance
Education
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
Chattogram Medical College
Certification
CPPS
Certified Phishing Prevention Specialist
CAPT
Certified Associate Penetration Tester
CWSE
Certified Web Security Expert
CRTA
Certified Red Team Analyst
MCAPT
Multi-Cloud Red Team Analyst
AD-RTS
Active Directory Red Team Specialist
Courses & Training
HackTheBox
Dante Pro Lab
TryHackMe
offensive Pentesting, Jr Penetration Tester Path, CompTIA Pentest +, Security Engineer, SOC Level 1
TCM Security
Practical Ethical Hacking, Linux Privilege Escalation, Windows Privilege Escalation
BGD e-GVT CIRT
National Cyber Drill 2021, National Cyber Drill 2022
Nahamcon
NahamconCTF 2022 & 2023
CTF Community Bangladesh
Flag Hunt 2023
KnightCTF
KnightCTF 2022 & 2023