Adrian Hayter is a penetration tester with over 10 years of experience developing and breaking into web applications. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Information Security and a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Danang Heriyadi is an Indonesian computer security researcher specialized in reverse engineering and software exploitation with more than five years hands on experience.
He is currently working at Hatsecure as an Instructor for "Advanced Exploit and ShellCode Development". As a researcher, he loves to share IT Security knowledge in his blog at FuzzerByte (http://www.fuzzerbyte.com).
Tajinder Singh Kalsi is the co-founder and Chief Technical Evangelist at Virscent Technologies Pvt Ltd with more than six years of working experience in the field of IT. He commenced his career with WIPRO as a Technical Associate, and later became an IT Consultant cum Trainer. As of now, he conducts seminars in colleges all across India, on topics, such as information security, Android application development, website development, and cloud computing, and has covered more than 100 colleges and nearly 8500 plus students till now. Apart from training, he also maintains a blog (www.virscent.com/blog), which pounds into various hacking tricks. Catch him on facebook at—www.facebook.com/tajinder.kalsi.tj or follow his website—www.tajinderkalsi.com.
Brian Sak, CCIE #14441, is currently a Technical Solutions Architect at Cisco Systems, where he is engaged in solutions development and helps Cisco partners build and improve their consulting services. Prior to Cisco, Brian performed security consulting and assessment services for large financial institutions, US government agencies, and enterprises in the Fortune 500. He has nearly 20 years of industry experience with the majority of that spent in Information Security. In addition to numerous technical security and industry certifications, Brian has a Master's degree in Information Security and Assurance, and is a contributor to The Center for Internet Security and other security-focused books and publications.
Kunal Sehgal (KunSeh.com) got into the IT Security industry after completing the Cyberspace Security course from Georgian College (Canada), and has been associated with financial organizations since. This has not only given him experience at a place where security is crucial, but has also provided him with valuable expertise in the field.
Currently, he heads is heading IT Security operations, for the APAC Region of one of the largest European banks. Overall, he has about 10 years of experience in diverse functions ranging from vulnerability assessment, to security governance and from risk assessment to security monitoring. He holds a number of certifications to his name, including Backtrack's very own OSCP, and others, such as TCNA, CISM, CCSK, Security+, Cisco Router Security, ISO 27001 LA, ITIL.
Nitin Sookun (MBCS) is a passionate computer geek residing in the heart of Indian ocean on the beautiful island of Mauritius. He started his computing career as an entrepreneur and founded Indra Co. Ltd. In the quest for more challenge, he handed management of the business over to his family and joined Linkbynet Indian Ocean Ltd as a Unix/Linux System Engineer. He is currently an engineer at Orange Business Services.
Nitin has been an openSUSE Advocate since 2009 and spends his free time evangelizing Linux and FOSS. He is an active member of various user groups and open source projects, among them openSUSE Project, MATE Desktop Project, Free Software Foundation, Linux User Group of Mauritius, and the Mauritius Software Craftsmanship Community.
He enjoys scripting in Bash, Perl, and Python, and usually publishes his work on his blog. His latest work "Project Evil Genius" is a script adapted to port/install Penetration Testing tools on openSUSE. His tutorials are often translated to various languages and shared within the open source community. Nitin is a free thinker and believes in sharing knowledge. He enjoys socializing with professionals from various fields.