Shomiron Das Gupta

Founder & CEO DNIF HYPERCLOUD

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Shomiron Das Gupta founded and leads DNIF HYPERCLOUD, a cloud-native security information and event management platform operated by NETMONASTERY Systems Inc. across India and the United States. He is an intrusion analyst by discipline rather than a general software executive — the company describes him as having spent about two decades building threat detection systems — and the product reflects that background in a specific way. Conventional SIEM practice examines alerts one at a time and drowns analysts in volume. DNIF’s stated method inverts it, working from tactical signals upward to strategic ones and applying cognitive graph analytics across connected signals so that, on the company’s own account, something like three hundred individual threats resolve into six to eight campaign clusters an analyst can actually reason about. The platform is engineered for petabyte-scale log analytics, holds PCI DSS v3.2.1 certification, and the business behind it has been recognised as a Gartner Cool Vendor and in the DSCI Excellence Awards. Das Gupta speaks regularly at Defcon, NullCon, AISS and the Gartner Summit; away from the work he is a trained mountaineer who has climbed in the Himalayas.

Career Highlights

• Has worked as an intrusion analyst building threat detection systems for approximately two decades.
• Founded DNIF, trading through NETMONASTERY Systems Inc., out of a cybersecurity services practice.
• Leads the company as chief executive with operations in India and the United States.
• Built the product around a tactical-to-strategic approach that reverses conventional SIEM methodology in order to surface whole threat campaigns rather than isolated alerts.
• Applied cognitive graph analytics over connected signals to collapse large volumes of individual threats into a small number of campaign clusters.
• Engineered DNIF HYPERCLOUD for petabyte-scale security log analytics, spanning SIEM, log management, user analytics and security automation.
• DNIF named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2014.
• DNIF recognised in the DSCI Excellence Awards in 2018.
• Achieved PCI DSS v3.2.1 certification for the platform.
• Built a senior team including a chief technology officer who previously held a leadership position at Symantec, a chief operating officer with more than 30 years in telecoms, and a governance and compliance lead with a 30-year IT career.
• Presents at Defcon, NullCon, AISS and the Gartner Summit.
• Represented DNIF at GISEC 2024 in Dubai on 30 April 2024, giving interviews to Enterprise IT World MEA and CIO TV.

Professional Journey

Das Gupta’s career has been built inside intrusion analysis — the practice of reading network and system telemetry to identify an attacker already inside an environment. The company describes him as a highly experienced intrusion analyst who has been building threat detection systems for about twenty years, which places the start of that work around the mid-2000s, when SIEM as a product category was still forming and most detection engineering was done by hand inside services firms.

DNIF grew out of exactly that world. The company’s account of its own founding is that its founders brought more than a decade of cybersecurity services industry experience, and the product’s defining idea is a direct reaction to what that work is like. Services analysts see the same failure repeatedly: a platform generates alerts faster than anyone can triage them, each alert is examined alone, and the campaign connecting them is never seen. DNIF’s answer was to invert the direction of analysis — start tactical, at the level of individual signals, and build upward to the strategic picture — using graph analytics over connected signals so that related activity collapses into a small number of coherent campaigns.

That thesis was recognised externally early: Gartner named DNIF a Cool Vendor in 2014, and the Data Security Council of India recognised the company in its Excellence Awards in 2018. The business trades as NETMONASTERY Systems Inc., with DNIF as the product brand, and operates across India and the United States.

The current platform, DNIF HYPERCLOUD, extends the original SIEM into cloud-native log management, user behaviour analytics and security automation, built to hold petabyte-scale log volumes — a requirement that follows directly from the campaign-detection premise, since you cannot correlate across a campaign if you have discarded the logs. Under Das Gupta’s leadership the platform achieved PCI DSS v3.2.1 certification, an important credential for the payments and financial customers such platforms serve.

He has assembled a senior team with depth outside his own specialism: Santosh Vishwanath as chief technology officer, previously a Symantec leader with more than seventeen years building secure, scalable systems; Badri Narayanan Parthasarathy as chief operating officer with over thirty years in telecoms; Bineet Sharma as chief revenue officer; and Harshal Dewoolkar, a thirty-year IT veteran, on governance and compliance.

Das Gupta remains the company’s public voice, presenting at Defcon, NullCon, AISS and the Gartner Summit, and representing DNIF internationally — including at GISEC 2024 in Dubai on 30 April that year, where he gave interviews to Enterprise IT World MEA and CIO TV and spoke about the company’s need for stronger brand penetration in the region.

Education

No education could be established for Shomiron Das Gupta from any source in this review, including DNIF’s own About page and all interview coverage found. None is asserted.