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Karanbir “K” Singh

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Senior Incident Response Consultant

Session 8

Mandiant

Mr. Singh is a Senior Incident Response Consultant in Mandiant’s West Coast Practice. He has been with Mandiant since 2025. As part of the Incident Response team, Mr. Singh provides emergency services to clients when a security breach occurs. He also helps clients create incident response management programs, analyzes and tests existing incident response plans, conducts forensic investigations, and provides incident response and forensics training.
Before his tenure at Mandiant, Karanbir served as a Senior Incident Response Consultant at CrowdStrike. Preceding this, he held the roles of Incident Response Consultant and Forensic Lab Manager at BlackBerry | Cylance. Karanbir has, in all roles, worked with multiple Fortune 500 companies, sector-leading firms, healthcare organizations, and other organizations in a variety of verticals ranging from Large-Scale Incident Response to Traditional “Dead Disk” and Mobile Forensic Engagements. Karanbir is proficient in both traditional, on-premise infrastructure investigations as well as Microsoft Azure/Microsoft M365-based investigations. Karanbir has also given a number of talks at various conferences such as BlueTeamCon, DEFCON Villages, CactusCon, and local organizations such as OWASP on varying topics relating to cybersecurity as well as carried out a myriad of workshops and trainings ranging from half-day workshops at local organizations to two-day trainings at DEFCON for DEFCON Trainings. With Mandiant, Mr. Singh has responded to significant cyber intrusions, in the region and globally.

Presenting in the following sessions:

Friday

Oct 30, 2026

12:45 PM

Session 8

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When the Breach Hits: Legal, Operational, and Sovereignty Considerations for Tribal Nations

Cyber incidents are no longer hypothetical for Tribal Nations—they are an operational, legal, and governance reality. Join Evan Wolff, Jody Cummings, and Jenny Patten Magallanes for an interactive session that explores and simulates how tribal governments can prepare for, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity incidents while navigating the unique legal landscape shaped by tribal sovereignty, jurisdictional complexity, and resource constraints.

Moderating the following sessions:

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