LtC (ret) Eric Filiol, is the head of (C+V)O research lab at ESIEA, France and senior consultant in offensive cybersecurity and intelligence. He spent 22 years in the French Army (Infantry/Marine Corps).

He holds an Engineer diploma in Cryptology, a PhD in applied mathematics and computer science and a Habilitation Thesis in Computer Science. He is graduated from NATO in InfoOps. He is the Editor-in-chief of the Journal in Computer Virology. He has been a speaker at international security events including Black Hat, CCC, CanSecWest, PacSec, Hack.lu, Brucon, H2HC…

Mr. Eric Filiol
Head of (C+V)O research lab at ESIEA, France,
Senior Consultant in Offensive Cybersecurity and Intelligence.

Mr. David Baptiste , Baptiste David is a computer science engineer who has been working for the CVO laboratory for many years. His research areas are based on operational and offensive computer security for protection of critical systems. He is specialized n reverse engineering, kernel development and malware analysis. He has especially worked on GostCrypt and many antivirus projects for many years. He made numerous conferences all over the world about security and offensive techniques.

Mr. David Baptiste
Researcher, CVO Lab ESIEA, France

Mr. Paul Amicelli

Mr. Paul Amicelli
Researcher, ESIEA Group

Mr. Roshdi Osman, PCI-ISA, CISM, CRISC, CISSP, PCI-P is an information security specialist with over 13 years’ experience in information security leadership roles at various organizations including Fortune 500 companies.

Roshdi is a strategic governance, risk and compliance (GRC) manager, and has established security strategy and roadmap, built the security framework and implemented all the components to achieve GRC as Business as Usual.

He has an established track record in building, from the ground up, an effective Information Security organization and in building an accountable information security conscious culture in the organization.

As the Head of Security Governance in Banque Saudi Fransi, Roshdi functions as Deputy CISO, Head of Information Security Governance, Risk Management and Security Compliance functions.

Roshdi has a Master's in Internet Security and is a Payment Card Industry Internal Security Assessor (PCI-ISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Payment Card Industry Professional (PCI-P).

Mr. Roshdi Osman PCI-ISA, CISM, CRISC, CISSP, PCI-P Head of Security Governance in Banque Saudi Fransi,
Deputy CISO, Head of Information Security Governance, Risk Management and Security Compliance functions.

Dr. Amirudin Abdul Wahab (“Dr Amir”) is currently the Chief Executive Officer of CyberSecurity Malaysia, a strategic agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Malaysia and the agency that monitors sovereignty of the country. He has more than 20 years of ICT working experience in the telecom and IT sector in the Government as well as in the semi-government and private sectors.

Through his leadership at Cybersecurity Malaysia, Dr Amir managed to contribute to Malaysia's achievement in attaining number #3 rank in the world, in the 2014 International Telecom Union (ITU) Global Cyber Security Index and becoming the first World Trustmark Alliance Chairman to be reappointed to a second term, was selected to receive an ASEAN Award as the Outstanding Chief Information/Security Officer Award.

He served as a National Committee Member of the e-Sovereignty Committee chaired by the Honourable Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, the National Chairman of the Industry Standards Committee on Information Technology, Communications and Multimedia (ISC G), Chairman of Impartial Committee for Malaysian Software Testing Board (MTSB), Board member of the National ICT Association of Malaysia (PIKOM), Chairman of PIKOM Information Security Committee and also a Board member of Cloud Security Alliance, Malaysia Chapter. He is also an OIC Task Force Member on ICT and Cyber Security and a Fellow at Malaysian Institute of Management. Dr Amir was also appointed by the Honourable Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia as one of the high-profile 11 member Independent Panel Committee of the Ministry of Education chaired by Tun Zaki Hamid, the former Chief Justice, to study National Examination Board examination systems.

Dr Amir holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering (ITEE), University of Queensland, Australia. Dr Amir also holds two Masters degrees, a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Duqubue, Iowa, USA, a Masters in Information Technology from National University of Malaysia (UKM) and a Bachelor of Science Engineering in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

Academically, Dr Amir is an Adjunct Professor at the International Islamic University of Malaysia (UIAM) and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and is one at Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) Malaysia and currently also serves as an Industry Advisory Panel (IAP) Member of the Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and at Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN).

A calculated risk-taker with deep technical industry knowledge, Dr Amirudin had built a strong reputation for developing effective and unique strategies and incubating new models and designs. He maintains a well-deserved national and international reputation in his field where he had been invited as keynote speaker in various local and international conferences and featured regularly in the local TV, Radio, newspapers, magazines and online Medias. Embracing the core values of integrity, innovation and growth, he consistently ranks among the top 5% of employees within the ICT Industry in Malaysia and listed in the Who’s Who in Malaysia in 2014.

Dr. Amirudin Abdul Wahab
Chief Executive Officer of CyberSecurity Malaysia

Detective Inspector Macdonald has 30 years of experience in both Municipal and Provincial Policing in the Province of Ontario. Dave is a Multi-Jurisdictional Major Case Manager with the Ontario Provincial Police, and has been involved in the investigation and management of Major Criminal cases for 15 years. Dave is currently the case manager for a Canadian and International cybercrime investigation involving the largest data seizure in Canadian history. This has resulted in necessary change to the infrastructure of the Technical Crime Unit of the Ontario Provincial Police as well as creative solutions to the storage, management and Forensic Analysis of this mega data.

Dave has been Detachment Commander in three locations in the Province of Ontario, a Level One Incident Commander, and Crisis Negotiator for the Ontario Provincial Police.

Detective Inspector Macdonald
Manager, Canadian and International cybercrime investigation

Raymond H. Velez Raymond H. Velez is currently the Regional Manager, Asia Pacific, Global Product Protection, Eli Lilly And Company. In this role, he manages drug anti-counterfeiting investigations in the Asia Pacific Region. He is currently based in Bangkok, Thailand.

Some of the investigations under his direction and supervision have led to the dismantling of organizations responsible for the global distribution of counterfeit drugs. He has in-depth experience working internet-based wholesale and retail operations and is also well-versed in the global flow of counterfeit drugs from source country manufacturing to retail “brick and mortar” distribution.

Mr. Velez has also conducted and participated in training on several continents regarding the worldwide threat counterfeit medicines pose to patient safety.

By way of history, Mr. Velez entered on duty with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1980 in Seattle, Washington, USA. His career led to San Francisco, then to postings in Pakistan and India before he retired from the FBI in 2001 while assigned to the American Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.

Mr. Velez has broad experience in various investigative fields ranging from terrorism to drug trafficking. He has also conducted training of police and other government officials throughout Asia and the United States.

From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Velez was the Senior Investigator for Microsoft Corporation, Law and Corporate Affairs, responsible for IPR investigations in South Asia Pacific.

Raymond H. Velez
Regional Manager
Asia Pacific, Global Product Protection, Eli Lilly And Company>br /> Bangkok, Thailand

A J Maina
Head of Cybersecurity, Dept. of New Media & Information Security
Nigerian Communications Commission

Ahmed Baig, is prominent speaker and Digital / cyber-security expert in the MENA region; He has been security advisor in various Smart City and National ID programs in Middle East.

Ahmed previously Head of information security and compliance at a Dubai Government Entity, CISO at an Abu Dhabi Government Entity and Head - Business Management and Advisory Services at TECOM (A Member of Dubai Holding). He brings to his current role more than 16 years of experience in Risk Management & Compliance, and Information Security Advisory Services; He has previously worked on projects for Major Airlines, Banks, Defense and Federal Agencies across the Middle East.

He is also founder of CISO Council and Chief Architect for CGMS (Corporate Governance Management System) and ITGMS (IT Governance Management System) frameworks covering Risk Management, IT Governance, Information Security, and Business Continuity in service providers and government entities. He has been a key member of eSecurity domain within Interstandards (Web Security Standard) developed regionally and also been part of OISSG. Ahmed's key assignments as principal consultant for various GRC, ISMS projects to help clients comply with required standards and regulations mainly ADSIC, ISR, ISO 27001, ISO 20000, ITIL, ISF and CobIT.

Mr. Ahmed Qurram Baig
Senior Director - Corporate Strategy, Risk & Excellence, Dubai Government Entity
Founder: Digital Risk Alliance

I am a 23 year police veteran who is currently the Sergeant in charge of the Technological Crime Unit within the Vancouver Police Department which consists of eight Digital Forensic Examiners and two Internet Investigators.

Police Experience
British Columbia Provincial Correctional Officer from 1989 until 1993.
Matsqui Police and Abbotsford Police from 1993 until 2003.
Vancouver Police Department since February 2003.
General Uniform Duties, Traffic Collision Investigation, Crowd Control Unit, Emergency Response Team, Beat Enforcement Team, Major Crime Section and Technological Crime.

Technological Crime Experience

• Identified suspects through various technological investigative avenues, such as tracing e-mails, IP address identification, and undercover operations and digital device forensics;
• Seized various digital devices such as computers, cellular phones, and other digital storage mediums in a secure method to lawfully preserve evidence for prosecution purposes;
• Participated in technological working groups to develop strategies and best practices to remedy challenges associated with technology, including participating in the development of various Police Databases.
• Conducted presentations regarding various aspects of criminal and high tech investigations, as well developed local and national solutions for technological crime investigations for law enforcement agencies.

• 1st Vice President- British Columbia Chapter- High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA)
• Board member- Canadian Chiefs of Police -National Technological Crime Advisory Committee (NTCAC)
• Member- The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLYCB)

BRANDT WATKINS
Sergeant in charge
Technological Crime Unit, Vancouver Police Department

Ajit Hatti is a Co-founder of “null -Open security community”, His work is focused on Infrastructure Security, providing Trusted Computing On Hostile Platforms & most of his papers are in social interest. Invented the widely exploited “Applanting” attack.

Currently working on securing systems using Cryptography at Symantec Corporation, he has worked as and Engineer and Researcher with many security companies like IBM-ISS, Bulelane, Zscaler in past.

He has previously presented his security research at BlackHat, NullCon, Ground Zero Summit, c0c0n, ClubHack.

Ajit Hatti,
Co-founder of “null -Open security community”

Anant Shrivastava is an experienced information security professional with 7 yrs of corporate experience with expertise in Mobile, Web application and Linux Security.

He has developed his expertise in mobile security over years and has successfully executed multiple mobile application security assessment projects. He has trained 100+ delegates on Android Security at various conferences (Nullcon - 2012, g0s - 2013, c0c0n - 2013). He has created Android Tamer (http://www.androidtamer.com)a Linux environment specially designed for Android Testing. He has also delivered talks at various security conferences on Android Operating System and Web application technologies. He holds various industry recognized certifications such as SANS GWAPT (GIAC Certified Web Application Testing), CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) and RHCE (RedHat certified Engineer).

He is one of the co-author for OWASP Testing Guide v4. His whitepaper on "Web Application Fingerprinting" is referred as authority reference in OWASP Testing Guide. He has written multiple tools for web application and android testing, which are listed in his Github profile (https://github.com/anantshri/). He has credited with multiple responsible public disclosures (refer http://www.osvdb.org/creditees/10234-anant-shrivastava). His tool named SVN Extractor (https://github.com/anantshri/svn-extractor) is warmly received by penetration testing community. He has built a security solutions repository for WordPressCMS which contains open source code snippets to provide protection against known attack patterns (https://github.com/anantshri/wp-security). He is also a lead for project named as Code Vigilant (http://www.codevigilant.com), which aims to identify security, issues in open source software's and currently holds 150+ vulnerability disclosures.

I work since 2013 on Android security, mainly malware detection and vulnerability detection. With custom tools, I have analysed around one hundred bank applications up to now. I showed the results in Chaos Communication Congress on December 2014 and BlackHat Asia 2015 (focused on asian applications).

Mr. Irolla Paul
IT Engineer
ESIEA (C + V)^O Lab.

Rugved Mehta is an Information Security Enthusiast working as a Technology Auditor in an Investment Bank. He has always been interested in security, be it national or international, physical or system security. His areas of interest and research include PsyOps, Perception Management, Mind Control, Aviation security, Open Source Intelligence, Human Intelligence, Signal and Technical Intelligence, Cyber Warfare, Surveillance among other such covert ops.

When not in office, he keeps reading and understanding covert things trying to uncover whatever he can.

Rugved Mehta
Technology Auditor in an Investment Bank.

Gaurav Trivedi is a Consultant with one of the Big Fours and an Information Security Enthusiast. He is extremely passionate about aviation and follows the aviation industry very closely. His other areas of interest include surveillance, human intelligence and the ever changing world of Information Security.

Gaurav Trivedi
Consultant with one of the Big Fours.

Yashin Mehaboobe is an embedded security researcher. He's been invited to speak at multiple conferences such as HITB Amsterdam, Nullcon, c0c0n, Kaspersky NextGeneration, Ground Zero Summit and Toorcon San Diego. His areas of interest span hardware security, malware analysis and reverse engineering. Yashin is also the author of various open source tools such as PyTriage and Arcanum.

Yashin Mehaboobe
Security Researcher.

Monnappa K.A is based out of Bangalore,India. He works with Cisco Systems focusing on threat intelligence and investigation of advanced cyber attacks. His Fields of interest include malware analysis, reverse engineering, memory forensics and threat intelligence.As an active speaker in security conferences like Nullcon and SecurityXploded (cyber security) meetings, he has presented on various topics which include Memory Forensics, malware analysis, Rootkit analysis and conducted training in FIRST(Forum of Incident Response and Security teams) conference in Amsterdam. He has also authored various articles in Hakin9, eForensics and HackInsight magazines.

Monnappa K.A
Information Security Investigator
Cisco Systems.

Akash 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 specialising in end point security. He started in security working on web infrastructure for the government of India.

Akash is the founder and community Manager at null - The Open Security Community where he has made major contributions in making the community a national phenomenon.

He is currently one of the Chapter Leaders of Open Web Application Security Project Bangalore (OWASP Bangalore).

He founded and runs The AppSec Lab a company focussed on Application Security where he works with small and medium companies in securing their web server security, web security, mobile security and guiding them to stay secure while being competitive. Current areas of research for him include devops, secops, security in SDLC, Cloud Security, Security awareness through community building. He does a lot of trainings as well including the extremely popular Xtreme Web Hacking.

Akash Mahaja
Founder and community Manager at null
Founder and runs The AppSec Lab

Abhijeth is a security analyst working for Adobe Systems. His interest in security domain since when he was 14 year old has made him explore many things and share them with his peers. He is also a member of hall of fames like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, At&t, Dropbox, etc and one among Top 10 researchers in Synack a Crowdsourcing Security Intelligence platform. He started to conduct workshops since 19 and since then he conducted sessions at IIT K, ISM Dhanbad, IIIT-H, JNTU-H, AU, KLU, SVU, GITAM(H&VSP), CBIT etc.., more than 60 other educational institutions. Believes in need for more security awareness and free responsible disclosures. His interests also include Social media marketing, Digital Marketing and Web designing.

Abhijeth Dugginapeddi
Security Analyst
Adobe Systems

Jayesh Singh Chauhan has around 4 years of experience in infosec industry and works as a Senior Security Engineer. He is an OWASP leader of the project, OWASP SKANDA. He is also the author of open source tools, CSRF PoC Generator and Skanda. He has spoken at c0c0n 2013 and GES 2014 and is a regular presenter in NULL local meets.

Jayesh Singh Chauhan
Senior Security Engineer
PwC

Rahul has over 7 years of experience in security, research and product development. He has presented his papers in 28 different forums in 14 different countries. He is the founder and CTO of CloudSek a Machine learning based threat detection technology . Prior to founding Cloudsek he was a Sr Engineer at Citrix where he held the responsibility of making citrix products secure.

Rahul Sasi
Founder and CTO of CloudSek

Divya S. John has around 4 years of experience in infosec industry and works as a Consultant Analyst. She is an IT enthusiast and has worked on various flavours of security. She is a regular at Null local meets.

Divya S. John
Consultant Analyst
7safe

Riyaz Ahemed Walikar Web Application Pentester, Security evangelist and a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), he has been active in the security community for the better part of the last 8 years. He has been actively involved with the Bangalore OWASP and null chapter for the last 4 years and is one of the OWASP Bangalore chapter leads.

He is actively involved with Vulnerability Research in popular Web Applications and Network aware services and has disclosed several security issues in popular software like Apache Archiva, Openfire, Joomla!, EJabberd, .NET Script Injection Bypass and has had luck with finding vulnerabilities with popular web applications like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Cisco, Symantec, Mozilla, PayPal, Ebay, Apigee, Yahoo, Adobe, Tumblr, Pinterest etc. for which he is on the Hall of Fame for most of these services. He has also been a speaker and trainer at several security conferences including OWASP AppsecUSA 2012, BlackHat Abu Dhabi 2012, nullcon Delhi 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and c0c0n 2011.

His technical interests lie with programming, bug bounty, malware analysis, breaking web applications, playing CTFs, researching devices that fall under the Internet of Things category and penetration testing networks exposed to the Internet. When he is not writing/breaking code, you can find him dabbling in photography, stargazing, playing football, reading or fishing.

Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
Web Application Pentester, Security evangelist and a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

Anto Joseph is a Security Engineer for Citrix. He is a strong supporter of Free & Open Information Security Education. His area of interest includes mobile /web app & stand-alone app security.He has talked in various security conferences and has good expertise in Practical Security.

Anto Joseph
Citrix.

Ajin Abraham is an Application Security Engineer for Yodlee, He is the founder of OWASP Xenotix XSS Exploit Framework and Mobile Security Framework. He has been invited to speak at multiple security conferences including ClubHack, NULLCON, OWASP AppSec AsiaPac, BlackHat Europe, Hackmiami, Confidence, BlackHat US, BlackHat Asia, ToorCon, Ground Zero Summit and Hack In the Box. All his research work could be found at http://opensecurity.in.

Ajin Abraham
Application Security Engineer for Yodlee
Founder of OWASP Xenotix XSS Exploit Framework and Mobile Security Framework.

Francis Alexander is an Information Security Researcher. He has a strong vision of Free & Open Information Security Education for all. His areas of interest includes web app & standalone app security, DBMS security, coding tools and fuzzing. He has spoke at multiple conferences such as HiTB AMS 2014,Hack in Paris 2014,Derbycon USA 2013, Defcon Kerala and Defcon Bangalore

Francis Alexander
Information Security Researchere

I was a Microsoft Imagine Cup finalist for 2011 and was amongst top teams for 2010 and worked on creating software and embedded solutions for "Sustainable development" and "Ending hunger and poverty" themes. Besides working on these projects in college I started software and web development firm. I have disclosed vulnerabilities for many firms from manufacturing, Internet shopping, insurance and government sites and was acknowledged by firms for the contribution. I have also won Nullcon Jailbreak 2013 and have spoken at CoCon 2013 and was a chapter moderator for Null mysore chapter. I now work with Philips as a security engineer and help in securing embedded devices and applications, especially in the healthcare domain. Besides work I like to experiment with DIY devices and create new use cases for them. As a hobby I play guitar (sometimes in a band).

Anirudh Duggal
Security Engineer
Philips

Harsh Patel is a information Security Consultant at Capgemini and Co-founder of Team Matrix Community. His area of research include Blockchains, Cryptography , Economics of Information Systems etc. He has been speaker at Cocon 2013 and Financial Cryptography 2014. In the open source domain, his researches include NepenthesFE, Mandi - A decentralized exchange on the blockchains and IRONGRID. He also has been winner of Hackathon @ BSE on blockchains."

Harsh Patel
Information Security Consultant at Capgemini
Co-founder of Team Matrix Community