A cybersecurity consultant, educator, and researcher with over 15 years of industry experience, Montii specialises in strengthening organisational security through incident response, SOC optimisation, and AI-driven security practices. He has extensive hands-on experience deploying and integrating leading security technologies, including SIEM, EDR, SOAR, and AI-assisted analytics platforms, to improve detection and response outcomes.

Montii has worked with global enterprise clients as well as SMEs, advising on security operations design, vendor selection, and technology benchmarking. His expertise spans compliance landscapes such as ISO, PCI DSS, GDPR, and SOC 2, where he aligns governance requirements with technical controls and vendor capabilities to deliver measurable security improvements.

Alongside his consultancy, Montii teaches and mentors professionals in applied threat intelligence, incident management, and the integration of AI into enterprise security stacks. His focus is on ensuring organisations, from fast-growing SMEs to global corporations, can adapt to the evolving vendor ecosystem and leverage next-generation tools effectively.

Research and Practice Areas

• Incident Response Readiness & Simulation – developing frameworks organisations can use to test, benchmark, and strengthen their response capabilities.
  
  
• AI-Augmented Security Operations – applying AI and LLMs within SIEM, SOAR, and EDR platforms to accelerate detection, triage, and response.
  
  
• SOC Effectiveness & Vendor Benchmarking – evaluating SOC services and technology providers to compare value, scalability, and operational impact.
  
  
• Threat Intelligence at Scale – leveraging AI to automate enrichment, correlate threat feeds, and integrate intelligence across multiple vendor platforms.
  
  
• Governance, Risk & Compliance Tooling – examining how AI-driven platforms and vendor solutions can streamline assurance and reporting processes.
  
  
• Resilient Architectures – designing adaptive, cloud-native environments with vendor technologies that integrate predictive analytics and autonomous defence.