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