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I’m TK Matima.

This site is home to a catalogue of my professional achievements, technical acumen, cyber security and blockchain interests and outputs.

CyberSecurity

I'm by profession a Principal Application Security Specialist with over a decade of knowledge, experience and skills in Cyber Security areas such as:

• Governance, Risk and Compliance

• Penetration Testing

• Security Research

• Training and Awareness

• Incident Response Management

CyberSecurity Outputs and recognition

I was acknowledged as a "Microsoft Top 100 Security Researcher of 2018" by Microsoft, due to my contribution to their product security by finding and disclosing multiple zero-day security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products.

I use my alias, Dmitri Kaslov, for my cyber security research.

A few other companies have acknowledged my contributions to their product security as well - check out my Security Research for more.

Where I have worked

• Wolfpack Information Risk

• ABSA Group

• SensePost (now part of Orange Cyberdefense)

• PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)

• TelSpace Systems / TelSpace Africa

• Tari Labs

• Sage

Software development

I also develop iOS applications.

Publications

I have also published varied works:

• peer-reviewed papers on Tourism , Blockchain technology

• cyber security commentary and opinion in some publications

Non-Profit Work

Prior to my Cyber Security career, I founded and ran a youth-led, non-profit organization for about a decade..

Music

I love & play guitar. I was featured in “Rather be Single”, a song by an up and coming local Afro House artist (Cue the minute long guitar solo at 3’50” - 4’50” ). I played in a few Church bands and for some Afro-pop teams too.