Karan Dwivedi is a recognized cybersecurity expert. Currently, he serves as a security engineering manager at Google.

Karan has led large-scale security projects at Google and Yahoo in the US for products like Google Search, Google Assistant, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Finance, Flickr, etc, to safeguard over a billion users. At Yahoo, he was part of the security team responding to the world’s largest data breach.

He is the author of the book “Kickstart your security engineering career” which is a definitive guide for anyone looking to start a career in security engineering. Karan contributed to the latest internet standard for scoring vulnerabilities, the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS 4.0). He is featured in major media like Hakin9 Media Magazine, Forensic Focus News, etc. He has delivered talks at national and international conferences like Tech Ex North America, Tech Summit SF, BSides Las Vegas, National Cyber Summit, etc, to influence private and public sectors.

Karan founded "The Cyber Instructor", an organization that provides the practical hands on cybersecurity training. The Cyber Instructor has trained 5000+ students in 15+ countries in a span on a year! Karan also taught in a cybersecurity course on Coursera, which was taken by over 250,000+ worldwide.