About the Reviewers
Akash Mahajan is an accomplished security professional with over a decade's experience of providing specialist application and infrastructure consulting services at the highest levels to companies, governments, and organizations around the world.
He has a lot of experience of working with clients to provide cutting edge security insight that truly reflects the commercial and operational needs of the organization, ranging from strategic advice and testing and analysis to incident response and recovery.
He is an active participant in the international security community and a conference speaker both individually, as chapter lead of the Bangalore chapter of OWASP--the global organization responsible for defining the standards for web application security--and as a co-founder of NULL, India’s largest open security community.
He is the author of Burp Suite Essentials, by Packt, and also a technical reviewer for Mobile Application Penetration Testing.
Thank you Izzat for making the job of technical reviewing as smooth as it can be.
Nishant Das Patnaik is an experienced application security and DevSecOps engineer. He is currently working as an application security engineer at eBay Bangalore. In the past, he has worked as an application security researcher at InMobi and as a senior paranoid at Yahoo!. He loves to share his work with the InfoSec and developer community through public speaking and open source projects. Hence, he has been a presenter at Black Hat Europe 2016, Black Hat USA 2016, Black Hat USA 2013, and Nullcon 2012. He loves to code in Python, Node.js, and PHP. He has authored a book, Software Hacking, published by Vikas Publishing, and he is also the technical reviewer of a book, iOS Penetration Testing: A Definitive Guide to iOS Security, published by Apress Inc. When he is not working, you can either find him playing the piano or experimenting in the kitchen. You may reach out to him on Twitter at @dpnishant and check out some of his open source projects at github.com/dpnishant.
I would like to thank my parents, Manoj Das Pattanaik and Ipsita Das Pattanaik, for all of their sacrifices to give me better opportunities in life, and my sister, Sulagna, without whose support, love, and blessings I would not have been able to achieve what I have today. I would also like to thank all of my really close friends, Diwakar Kumar Dinkar, Abhilash Sahoo, Piyush Pattanayak, Vivek Singh Yadav, Somasish Sahoo, and my colleagues at eBay and Yahoo!, who have always been a constant source of support and encouragement. I would like to thank Izzat Contractor from Packt Publishing Limited, and Ishan Girdhar, for giving me this great opportunity to work with them. Last but not least, I would like to thank the Supreme Almighty for constantly bestowing some of his kindest blessings on me.
Sreenath Sasikumar is the CEO of MashupAcademy, a fullstack educational startup, and also a web security consultant. He also works with Kerala Police Cyberdome as a deputy commander and is the board member of OWASP, Kerala. He loves open source and has created eight Mozilla add-ons, including Clear Console, the featured add-on, which was selected among the best Firefox add-ons of 2013. He has created the world's first-of-its-kind hacking browser, PenQ. He works as start-up mentor to technology firms and student start-ups. He is also a co-organizer and speaker at Google Developer Group, Trivandrum.
Bhargav Tandel has over 5 years of experience in Information Security with companies such as Reliance Jio, Vodafone, and Wipro. His core expertise and passions are vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, ethical hacking, information security, and system administration. He is currently pursuing the OSCP certification. He has the ability to solve complex problems involving a wide variety of information systems, work independently on large-scale projects, and thrive under pressure in fast-paced environments while directing multiple projects from the concept to the implementation.
You can connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhargav-tandel-aa046646 or e-mail him at er.bhargav18@gmail.com. You can also subscribe his YouTube Channel, www.youtube.com/bhargavtandel.
I would like to dedicate this book to my family and friends, who have always stood by me. Jigar Tank (www.hupp.in) and Utkarsh Bhatt, my friends, who have always been there for me. My sir, Rakesh Dwivedi, gave me the reason to continue learning and growing. My extended family made of friends, new and old, makes life more exciting and are far too many to list.
Above all, I'd like to thank my parents and my love, Urvashi, for always being there and inspiring me to never back down.Thank you, all!!