Bio

Aditya K Sood (Ph.D) is a security practitioner, researcher, and consultant. With the experience of more than 14 years, he provides strategic leadership in the field of information security, covering products and infrastructure. He is well experienced in propelling the business by making security a salable business trait. He directs the development and implementation of application security policies, procedures, and guidelines to ensure that security controls are deployed in line with business strategies. He works effectively with cross-functional teams to execute information security plans including compliance, risk, secure development, security assessments including penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and threat modeling. Dr. Sood has research interests in cloud security, malware automation and analysis, application security, and secure software design. He has worked on a number of projects pertaining to product/appliance security, networks, mobile, and web applications while serving Fortune 500 clients for IOActive, KPMG and others. He is also a founder of SecNiche Security Labs, an independent web portal for sharing research with the security community. He has authored several papers for various magazines and journals including IEEE, Elsevier, CrossTalk, ISACA, Virus Bulletin, and Usenix. His work has been featured in several media outlets including Associated Press, Fox News, The Register, Guardian, Business Insider, CBC, and others. He has been an active speaker at industry conferences and presented at Blackhat, DEFCON, HackInTheBox, RSA, Virus Bulletin, OWASP, and many others. Dr. Sood obtained his Ph.D from Michigan State University in Computer Sciences. Dr. Sood is also an author of the ''Targeted Cyber Attacks'' book published by Syngress. He obtained his GC under EB-1A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) criteria.