Nipun Jaswal is an IT security business executive and a passionate IT security researcher with more than seven years of professional experience, who possesses knowledge in all aspects of IT security testing and implementation, with expertise in managing cross-cultural teams and planning the execution of security needs beyond national boundaries.
He is an M.tech in Computer Sciences and a thought leader who has contributed to raising the bar of understanding on cyber safety and ethical hacking among students of many colleges and universities in India. He is a voracious public speaker and talks about improving IT security, insider threats, social engineering, wireless forensics, and exploit writing. He is the author of numerous IT security articles with modern security magazines such as Eforensics, Hakin9, Security Kaizen, and many more. Many famous companies, such as Apple, Microsoft, AT&T, Offensive Security, Rapid7, Blackberry, Nokia, www.zynga.com, and many others have thanked him for finding vulnerabilities in their systems. He has also been acknowledged with the Award of Excellence from the National Cyber Defense and Research Center (NCDRC) for his tremendous contributions to the IT security industry.
In his current profile, he leads a team of super specialists in cyber security to protect various clients from cyber security threats and network intrusion by providing permanent solutions and services. Please feel free to contact him via e-mail at [email protected].
At the very first, I would like to thank everyone who read the Mastering Metasploit first and second edition. I would like to thank my mother for being a source of inspiration throughout my life. I would like to thank my team of superheroes including Adhokshaj Mishra for carrying out smooth operations and helping me out while I was working on this. I am thankful to Shivam, Deepankar, and Tajinder for not letting me feel stressed out by planning amazing trips. I would like to thank Mr. Adrian Pruteanu for reviewing my work and suggesting all the changes. I would like to thank everyone at Packt including Prachi, Namrata, and especially Trusha for being incredibly supportive, patient and responsive even on weekends. Last but not the least; I would like to thank the almighty for providing me with the immense power to work on this project.