Writing and Media
Articles, essays, interviews, and media appearances — across platforms, across years. Everything in one place.
Articles, essays, interviews, and media appearances — across platforms, across years. Everything in one place.
★ Articles, Media, Interviews and Quotes
2026
MEDIA Expert Roundup Cloudtweaks AI Agents, Machine Speed, and the Security Gaps Organizations Are Not Ready For, May 2026
PRESENTATION (Event) Uncharted: AI Risk Frameworks for Forward Thinking CISOs - Apex Assembly for CISOs, April 2026, Dallas TX
INTERVIEW (Podcast) What IT Leaders Get Wrong About Modernization - The Hitchhiker's Guide to IT Podcast, April 2026
PRESENTATION (Webinar) Security Requirements for Adopting Gen AI - FS-ISAC, Jan 2026
2025
QUOTE SmarterMSP "Government Shutdown Heightens Cybersecurity Risks" Oct 2025
INTERVIEW YouTube · AWS "AWS Spotlight: How AWS Helps Fortra Deliver Intelligent Security Solutions" Aug 2025
INTERVIEW SC Media · Black Hat 2025 "The Rising Need for Offensive Security Strategy and Skill" Aug 2025
MEDIA Unite.AI "The Trillion-Dollar Arms Race: How AI Is Reshaping Cybersecurity's Asymmetric Battlefield" Jul 2025
INTERVIEW 4iMag "Offense Is the New Defense" 2025
INTERVIEW SC Media · RSAC 2025 "RSAC 2025 Executive Interview: Cobalt Strike Abuse Decreases 80% with Fortra, Microsoft & Health-ISAC" Apr 2025
INTERVIEW Expert Insights Podcast "Ep. 48 — The Shift in Perceived Risks: What's Next in Cybersecurity for 2025" Mar 2025
MEDIA Cyber Defense Magazine "Key Cybersecurity Themes for 2025" Mar 2025
INTERVIEW Finopotamus "InfoSec People Profile: Fortra's Rohit Dhamankar" Feb 2025
QUOTE HostingAdvice.com "New Safety Report Calls for Policy Changes as AI Advances" Feb 2025
INTERVIEW WebsitePlanet "Interview: Fortra's Strategy on AI, Offensive Security & the Evolving Threat Landscape" 2025
MEDIA Fortra Blog "Does Your Cybersecurity Framework Need Rebuilding?" 2025
Work in Progress to link important pieces from earlier years. Many have been lost.
2024
PRESENTATION Towerwall Information Security Summit Key Note June 2024
INTERVIEW SC Media · Security Weekly BSW #396 "CISO Cheat Sheet, Cobalt Strike & Resilience — with Theresa Lanowitz" May 2024
QUOTE Fortra Blog "Protecting Your Digital Assets Against AI Cybercrime" Jul 2024
QUOTE Fortra Press Release "Fortra Brings Managed XDR to Market" Feb 2024
2023
PRESENTATION YouTube · RSA Conference session "Is Increasing Security Maturity and Decreasing Operational Load Possible?" Jun 2023
MEDIA Solutions Review · Premium Content Series "The Exploding Vulnerability Arms Race: A Growing Cyber Cold War" Jan 2023
MEDIA Fortra Blog "Expanding Cybersecurity Strategy and Tactics as Part of Fortra" 2022/2023
2022
INTERVIEW CyberWire Daily · Career Notes Ep. 128 "Rohit Dhamankar: Never Close Doors Prematurely" Dec 2022
MEDIA Alert Logic Blog "With Security Analytics, Quality Means More Than Quantity" 2022
MEDIA TechTarget · SearchSecurity "How AI Can Help Security Teams Detect Threats" Jan 2022
2021
MEDIA Alert Logic Blog "Staying Ahead of Log4Shell Through Threat Research and Hunting" Dec 2021
PRESENTATION AICorespot "AI in the Cybersecurity Sector" Sep 2021
MEDIA TechTarget · SearchSecurity "How to Navigate Cybersecurity Product Coverage" Aug 2021
MEDIA TechTarget · SearchSecurity "5 Steps to Implement Threat Modeling for Incident Response" Aug 2021
MEDIA TechTarget · SearchSecurity "Combine ML with Human Intelligence for Your Security Strategy" Jan 2021
2018-2020
MEDIA TechTarget · SearchSecurity "The Need for Independent Cybersecurity Solutions Testing" Oct 2020
MEDIA TechTarget · SearchSecurity "Security Issues with Working Remotely (and How to Fix Them" 2020
MEDIA Alert Logic Blog "Demystifying Ransomware Detection Coverage Along the Kill Chain" ~2020
MEDIA Alert Logic Blog "Changing the Game: Hunting Ransomware with Threat Intelligence" ~2020
MEDIA TechTarget · SearchSecurity "A Case for Both Cybersecurity Detection and Prevention Tools" 2019
MEDIA TechTarget · SearchSecurity "3 Steps to Zero-Day Threat Protection" 2019
QUOTE Solutions Review "2018 Alert Logic State of Threat Detection Report" Sep 2018
2005-2011
PRESENTATION RSA Conference 2010 · San Francisco "SANS Top 20 Internet Security Risks — Panel Speaker" Feb 2010 ( 1000+ audience)
PRESENTATION Black Hat USA · Las Vegas "Developing Effective Network Signatures for Detecting Complex Threats" — Annual full-day training course 2008–2011
PRESENTATION YouTube · bSecure Conference · Mexico City "Rohit Dhamankar at the 6th bSecure Conference" 2009
PRESENTATION Pentagon Enterprise Security · Washington DC "Most Dangerous Attacks Techniques and What's Next" Jun 2008
PRESENTATION Black Hat USA · Las Vegas "PISA: Protocol Identification via Statistical Analysis" Aug 2007
PRESENTATION YouTube · ShmooCon · Washington D.C. "Encrypted Protocol Identification via Statistical Analysis" Mar 2007 · with Rob King
INTERVIEW Dark Reading / InformationWeek "Ranking Bugs, Saving Pigs" 2007
INTERVIEW InformationWeek "High Five: Meet Rohit Dhamankar, Senior Manager of Security Research, TippingPoint" Jun 2007
QUOTE Computerworld "Three Takeaways from the SANS Top 20 Internet Security Risk List" Nov 2007
QUOTE Dark Reading "Client, Application Flaws Top SANS Vulnerability List" 2007
INTERVIEW Network Computing "Career Profile: TippingPoint's Rohit Dhamankar" ~2007
PRESENTATION RSA Conference Power Days "Preventing Exploitation of VoIP Networks" 2006 · with David Endler
QUOTE Network World "Grading the Threat: SANS Institute Points Spotlight at Security Problems" Nov 2006
MEDIA VoIPSA / SANS Top 20 "SANS Top 20 Internet Security Attack Target List — VoIP Security Expert Contribution" Nov 2006
WHITEPAPER TippingPoint "Intrusion Prevention: The Future of VoIP Security", Number of Citations, 2005
I’ve done many live and recorded interviews over the years, but one from Seoul in 2006 remains especially memorable. Before the interview, the producers insisted on applying makeup—something entirely new to me at the time. Experiencing a brush carefully laying down a thin coating on my face was a first, and an unexpectedly memorable moment in my professional journey.