Abuzar Ghafari
Cyber Security Architect
Technology Risk, AI Risk & Zero-Trust
- Education: University of Oxford
- Certification: CISSP
- Certification: CCIE Security
Lahore, Pakistan · The beginning
Spices and Snacks.
And plenty to pack.
I started with selling street food on the streets of Lahore. Most of the days not selling anything at all.
2009–2012 · Lahore · Turning
Learned to Code.
Formed an agency.
I learned to code, and for the next three years I designed landing pages and websites. Then an incident caught my attention, and I pursued the data networking path.
2013–2014 · Lahore · The new era
Heard about Cybersecurity, and never looked back.
I learned about cybersecurity and decided to dive in, not knowing how it would transform my life from that point on.
2015 · Abu Dhabi · Transitioning
The first migration.
One random evening, I received an email from a company in Abu Dhabi, asking me to work on a huge project.
2017 · Dubai · High-Stakes Work
Big City Life.
Successfully completing my work with the UAE government brought many opportunities to the table and shaped the next phase. I chose Dubai Police, to transform their cyber practice and my life.
2020 · Covid · Layoffs · London
Packing Life in 2 bags.
Moving to a new city.
Covid changed the whole world around me, and the economic uncertainty hit my job in Dubai. But there's always a next chapter. Another random evening, another random email, this time from London, offering a new role.
Oxford · University of Oxford
A childhood dream.
Finally mine.
Attending Oxford was a dream I had carried since childhood. Years later, and a long way from Lahore, it came true: I became a student at the University of Oxford.
London · Cywift · The entrepreneur era
From practitioner
to founder.
I founded Cywift to answer a question enterprises still struggle with: how much risk did all that security spending actually reduce? Our AI-native cyber risk intelligence platform brings every attack surface into one view and ties it back to the business.
What comes next
Something is
always missing.
A language to learn. A skill to develop. A job to find. A tool to build.
Each time, what's missing gives me somewhere to begin, and I'm still going strong.