Imran Bashir has a M.Sc. in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, and has a background in software development, solution architecture, infrastructure management, and IT service management. He is also a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and British Computer Society (BCS). Imran has sixteen years of experience in the public and financial sectors. He worked on large scale IT projects for public sector before moving to financial services industry. Since then he has worked in various technical roles for different financial companies in Europe’s financial capital, London. He is currently working for an investment bank in London as Vice President in the technology department.

I would like to thank the talented team at Packt including Ajith Menon, Nilesh Sawakhande, Sumeet Sawant, and Tushar Gupta, who provided prompt guidance and very valuable feedback throughout this project. I am also extremely thankful to the reviewer, Daniel Kraft, who provided constructive and very useful feedback that helped tremendously to improve the material in this book.

I thank my wife and children for putting up with my all-night and weekend-long writing sessions.

Finally, I would like to thank my parents, whose blessings on me have made everything possible for me.