Automation Ninja, Appsecco
Madhu is a security ninja, security and devops researcher with extensive experience in the industry ranging from client facing assignments building scalable and secure infrastructure, to publishing industry leading research to running training sessions for companies and governments alike.
Madhu’s research papers are frequently selected for major security industry conferences including Defcon 24, All Day DevOps (2016, 2017), DevSecCon (London, Singapore, Boston), DevOpsDays India, c0c0n, Serverless Summit, ToorCon, DefCamp, SkydogCon, NolaCon and null, etc. Madhu was a keynote speaker for the National Cyber Security conference at Dayananda Sagar College in Feb 2016.
When he’s not working with Appsecco’s clients or speaking at events he’s actively involved in researching vulnerabilities in open source products/platforms such as WordPress, Ntop, Opendocman etc. and is also a contributing bug hunter with Code Vigilant (a project to Secure Open Source Software). His research has identified many vulnerabilities in over 200 organisations including US Department of Homeland Security, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Adobe, LinkedIn, Ebay, At&t, Blackberry, Cisco, Barracuda etc. He is also an active member with Bugcrowd, Hackerone, Synack etc.
Madhu has trained over 5000 people in information security for companies and organisations including the Indian Navy and the Ministry of e-services in a leading Gulf state.
He is co-author of Security Automation with Ansible2 book published by Packt Publishing in December 2017, which is listed as a resource by the RedHat Ansible itself.
Participating sessions details
| Title | Description | type | When | Time | Acting as |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SOC Monitoring Visualisation | AppSec SOC Monitoring Visualisation | working-session | Wed | PM-2 | participant |
| AWS Lambda Security | How to secure Lambda functions | product-session | Wed | PM-1 | participant |
| Security Crowdsourcing | Working Sessions for Security Crowdsourcing | working-session | Tue | PM-3 | participant |
| Securing GitHub Integrations | How to secure Github Integrations | working-session | participant | ||
| Securing the CI Pipeline | Secure the CI/CD pipeline | working-session | Thu | PM-2,PM-3 | participant |
| Security Champions | participant | ||||
| Agile Practices for Security Teams | Agile Practices for Security Teams | working-session | Tue | PM-1 | participant |
| Security Playbooks | participant | ||||
| Adding security to VSTS pipeline | DevSecOps: adding security testing, review and configurations to a VSTS pipeline | working-session | Tue | PM-3 | participant |
| Docker and Kubernetes Threat Modeling Cheat Sheet | Docker and Kubernetes Threat Modeling Cheat Sheet | working-session | Wed | PM-1 | participant |
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