About the Author

Akash Mahajan is "That Web Application Security Guy." He has more than 10 years of experience in application and network security. Before starting his own company, he was a technical lead for one of the leading American commercial security software companies specializing in endpoint security. He then started working on the security of the web infrastructure for the Government of India.

He is the founder and community manager at null - The Open Security Community, where he has made major contributions in making null a national-level group and null Bangalore the biggest and most vibrant chapter.

He is currently a chapter leader of Open Web Application Security Project Bangalore (OWASP Bangalore).

He is the founder of AppSec Labs, a company focused on application security, where he works with small- and medium-sized companies in securing their web server security, web security, and mobile security, and guiding them to stay secure while being competitive.

Currently, his areas of research include DevOps, SecOps, security in SDLC, cloud security, and security awareness through community building. He conducts a lot of training as well, including the extremely popular Xtreme Web Hacking.

He was actively involved with the Bangalore Barcamp Planners group and has organized events such as AppJam and MobileCamps all over India, where he has evangelized security to small- and medium-sized enterprises.