Lim BinjieBenjamin
Experience
Senior Principal Engineer (MDR) | Dell Technologies2024 – Present
Principal Engineer (MDR) | Dell Technologies2021 – 2024
- Involved in set up of Managed Detection & Response (MDR) service from 0 to 400+ global customers.
- SME for attack techniques, threat hunting and malware analysis.
- As Cybersecurity Automation Team Lead, led development of Python WebApp to scale MDR.
- Assigns alerts and investigations from multiple tenants to on-shift analysts on a single pane of glass.
- Generates reports and slides for customer review, billing and management reporting.
- Used LLM models to triage alerts and review investigation quality.
- 250K Alerts, 70K Investigations assigned, 2.5K customer reports, 10K Investigations reviewed to date.
- Deployed 4 geographically distributed instances with Azure DevOps CI/CD.
- Integrated code coverage, Trivy dependency scanning and SBOM generation into pipeline.
- Led team of developers to optimize Web App and continue feature development.
Assistant Vice President (Red Team) | OCBC Bank2020 – 2021
- Rebuilt Red Team capability by drafting red team strategy, workplan and process documents.
- Conducted red team exercise and security assessments on endpoint and infrastructure.
- Developed custom implants and prepared attack plans for Intel-led threat scenarios.
- Implants included a VBA macro which broke process ancestry by spawning an IE COM object.
- Mentored junior colleague on Red Team fundamentals.
Associate (Cyber Forensics) | Deutsche Bank2018 – 2020
- Performed data acquisition, recovery and forensic analysis of systems.
- Analysed malware compromise, policy violation and data exfiltration cases.
- Conducted Threat Hunting activities as part of feasibility trial.
- Identified internal Red Team activity. Led to setup of permanent Threat Hunt team.
- Performed product evaluation and PoC testing on forensic tools.
Penetration Tester (Red Team) | Ministry of Defence2016 – 2018
- Performed "Assume Breach" black box Red Team engagements.
- Responsible for entire engagement from enumeration to exfiltration.
- Wrote custom tools and scripts for lateral movement and persistency.
- Researched on emerging Red Team tools and antivirus evasion techniques.
Courses & Certifications
Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)2026
GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON)2025
GIAC Cloud Security Automation (GCSA)2024
Microsoft Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)2022
Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Associate (SC-200)2022
Advanced Exploit Development for Penetration Testers (SEC760)2022
Offensive Security Certified Expert (OSCE)2020
GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA)2018
Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploit Writing, and Ethical Hacking (SEC660)2017
Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)2017
Microsoft Security Administrator Associate (MS-500)2022 – 2025
GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware (GREM)2019 – 2023
CREST Registered Penetration Tester (CRT)2018 – 2021
CREST Practitioner Security Analyst (CPSA)2018 – 2021
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)2017 – 2019
Education
Master of Laws | The University of Edinburgh2023 – 2025
- Master of Laws in Information Technology Law (Distinction)
- Dissertation — Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure: Providing legal Safe Harbour with minimal risks
Bachelor of Computing | National University of Singapore2012 – 2015
- Bachelor of Computing (Information Systems) with Honours (Distinction)
- Specialization in Information Security
- Participated in an exchange program in US and internship in Switzerland
Achievements
- Submitted valid vulnerabilities to Bitdefender, FireEye & Sophos Bug Bounty program.
- Top 10 team in open category of STACK the Flags CTF.
- Discovered currently unpatched method to crash Windows Event Logger Service.
- Completed the 6th annual Flare-On Challenge.
- Top 3 team in CLOUDSEC Challenge.
- Developed tools that log TCP connections, perform timestomping and other functions.
- Won the SEC660, FOR508, FOR610, SEC540, SEC511, Core and Cyber Defense NetWars Coin.
- Black Hat Asia 2015 Student Scholarship Recipient.
Organizations & Volunteer Work
Repair Coach | Repair Kopitiam2023 – Present
- Community initiative to assist residents in repairing common household electrical goods (e.g. fans, ovens).
IT Commissioner | The Singapore Scout Association2022 – 2025
Co-opted Member (IT Committee) | The Singapore Scout Association2020 – 2025
- Drafted and executed the association's digital transformation roadmap.
- Initiatives include cashless donation, e-learning platform and digitalizing administrative processes.
- Prepared functional specifications document, performed penetration test and drafted IT security policy.
Board Member | GIAC Advisory Board2019