About the Author

Vijay Kumar Velu is a passionate information security practitioner, speaker, and blogger, currently working as a cyber security technical manager at one of the Big4 consultancies based in India. He has more than 10 years of IT industry experience, is a licensed penetration tester, and has specialized in providing technical solutions to a variety of cyber problems, ranging from simple security configuration reviews to cyber threat intelligence. Vijay holds multiple security qualifications including Certified Ethical Hacker, EC-council Certified Security Analyst, and Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator. He loves hands-on technological challenges.

Vijay was invited to speak at the National Cyber Security Summit (NCSS), Indian Cyber Conference (InCyCon), Open Cloud Conference, and Ethical Hacking Conference held in India, and he has also delivered multiple guest lectures and training on the importance of information security at various business schools in India. He also recently reviewed Learning Android Forensics, Packt Publishing.

For the information security community, Vijay serves as the director of the Bangalore chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and chair member of the National Cyber Defence and Research Center (NCDRC).

I would like to dedicate this book to my mother and sister for believing in me and always encouraging me to do what I like with all my crazy ideas. Special thanks to my family, friends (Hackerz), core team (Rachel H Martis, Anil Dikshit, Karthik Belur Sridhar, Vikram Sridharan and Vishal Patel), and Lokesh Gowda for allowing me ample amount of time in shaping this book.

A huge thanks to Darren Fuller, my mentor and friend, for providing his support and insights. Also to the excellent team at Packt Publishing for all the support that they provided throughout the journey of this book, specially Sachin and Nirant for their indubitable coordination.