intrusionpanel.com/about

Built by
operators

We're not a consultancy that learned to spell CVSS. IntrusionPanel.com was founded by former offensive security operators and incident responders who got tired of watching organizations fail for preventable reasons.

Mission

We exist to make
attackers' lives harder

IntrusionPanel.com was founded on a simple premise: most breaches are preventable. Not because defenders are incompetent — but because the attacker always has the advantage of time and asymmetry. We help close that gap.

Our team is built from practitioners who have been on both sides: former red teamers who understand how adversaries operate, incident responders who have cleaned up catastrophic breaches, and security engineers who have deployed defenses at enterprise scale.

We don't sell fear. We sell precision — targeted engagements that expose real risk, actionable remediation, and deployments that actually work when you need them to.

Every engagement we take is treated as if it were protecting our own infrastructure. Because in a threat landscape where trusted vendors become attack vectors, we are only as good as our clients' defenses.

2019
Founded
500+
Engagements Completed
42
Team Members Across 8 Timezones
98%
Client Retention Rate
$0
VC funding — fully independent
Values

How we operate

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Precision Over Volume
We don't run automated scanners and call it a pentest. Every engagement is conducted by humans who think critically about your specific environment, threat model, and risk tolerance.
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Radical Confidentiality
We have access to some of the most sensitive environments on the planet. Every team member signs strict NDAs, data is handled end-to-end encrypted, and engagement artifacts are destroyed after delivery.
Speed Is a Feature
In incident response, every minute of dwell time is damage. In pentest, slow delivery means slow remediation. We move fast — without sacrificing the depth that makes findings actionable.
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Research-Driven
Our team regularly publishes original research, contributes to open source tools, and participates in bug bounty programs. We stay on the frontier — and that knowledge flows into every client engagement.
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No Vendor Bias
We are tool-agnostic and vendor-independent. Our recommendations are based on what's right for your environment — not on referral agreements or partnership tiers with security vendors.
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Always-On Intelligence
Threats don't operate 9-to-5. Our monitoring, intelligence collection, and incident response capability is live around the clock — because the adversary doesn't have business hours.
Team

The operators
behind the panel

Former NSA, GCHQ, CrowdStrike, and Mandiant practitioners — now protecting the organizations they once tested.

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Marcus Vehn
Founder & CEO
Former offensive cyber operator with 14 years across government and private sector. Built red team programs at two Fortune 50 organizations before founding IntrusionPanel.com.
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Yara Kestrel
Head of Incident Response
Led IR at Mandiant for 8 years, responding to nation-state intrusions and ransomware incidents across critical infrastructure. Holds a master's in digital forensics.
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Dov Ashkar
Head of Threat Intelligence
Former signals intelligence analyst, transitioned to CTI with focus on APT tracking and adversary infrastructure. Runs our dark web monitoring and IOC programs.
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Sienna Park
Lead Security Architect
Designed and deployed zero-trust architectures for regulated industries. Certified across Palo Alto, CrowdStrike, and Microsoft security stacks.
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Ravi Orenstein
SOC Director
Built and managed 24/7 SOC operations for a global MSSP serving 200+ enterprise clients. Specialized in SIEM tuning, detection engineering, and analyst workflow optimization.
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Lena Vogt
Head of Compliance
Former Big 4 auditor specializing in cybersecurity compliance. Has guided 80+ organizations through SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001 certifications.
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History

How we got here

2019

Founded in INDIA

IntrusionPanel.com launched with a team of 5 former operators, focusing on penetration testing and incident response for the Middle East and North Africa financial sector.

2020

Threat Intelligence Program

Launched proprietary dark web monitoring and threat intelligence capability. First dedicated CTI analysts hired from government intelligence backgrounds.

2021

Managed SOC Launch

Opened our 24/7 Security Operations Centre, expanding beyond project-based work to ongoing managed detection and response. Team grew to 22.

2022

Global Expansion

Expanded operations to serve clients across Europe, North America, and APAC. Established satellite offices and formalized 8-timezone follow-the-sun SOC model.

2023

Security Deployments Practice

Added dedicated security engineering and deployment capability, enabling end-to-end ownership from assessment through hardened infrastructure deployment.

2025

500+ Engagements

Crossed 500 completed engagements across six continents. Zero successful breaches of clients under active managed protection. Team now at 42 operators.

Join the team

We're always looking for exceptional operators, researchers, and engineers.
Remote-first. Equity available. You pick your tooling.

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