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 deep experience of working with clients to provide innovative security insight that truly reflects the commercial and operational needs of the organization from strategic advice to testing and analysis to incident response and recovery. He is an active participant in the international security community and 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. Akash runs Appsecco a company focused on Application Security. He has authored the book - Burp Suite Essentials published by PacktPub November 2014 which is listed as a reference by the creators of Burp Suite (ISBN 978-1783550111).

Madhu Akula is a security ninja, security and devops researcher with extensive experience in the industry ranging from client facing assignments building scalable and secure infrastructure, to publishing industry leading research to running training sessions for companies and governments alike.

Madhu’s research papers are frequently selected for major security industry conferences including Defcon 24, All Day DevOps, DevSecCon, DevOpsDays India, ToorCon, DefCamp, SkydogCon and NolaCon. Madhu was a keynote speaker for the National Cyber Security conference at Dayananda Sagar College in Feb 2016
When he’s not working with Appsecco’s clients or speaking at events he’s actively involved in researching vulnerabilities in open source products/platforms such as WordPress, Ntop, Opendocman etc. and is also a contributing bug hunter with Code Vigilant (a project to Secure Open Source Software). His research has identified many vulnerabilities in over 200 organizations including US Department of Homeland Security, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Adobe, LinkedIn, Ebay, At&t, Blackberry, Cisco, Barracuda etc. He is also an active member with Bugcrowd, Hackerone, Synack etc.

Madhu has trained over 5000 people in information security for companies and organisations including the Indian Navy and the Ministry of e-services in a leading Gulf state.