Nitesh Dhanjani is a well known information security researcher and speaker. Dhanjani is the author of "Hacking: The Next Generation" (O'Reilly), "Network Security Tools: Writing, Hacking, and Modifying Security Tools" (O'Reilly), and "HackNotes:Linux and Unix Security" (Osborne McGraw-Hill). He is also a contributing author to "Hacking Exposed 4" (Osborne McGraw-Hill) and "HackNotes:Network Security" (Osborne McGraw-Hill).

At Ernst & Young, Nitesh is Executive Director in the Americas Information Security Center of Excellence (CoE), responsible for helping some of the largest corporations successfully establish enterprise wide information security programs and solutions. Nitesh is also responsible for evangelizing brand new technology service lines around emerging technologies and trends such as mobile security, cloud computing, and social media.

Prior to E&Y, Dhanjani was Senior Director of Application Security and Assessments at Equifax where he spearheaded security efforts into enhancing the enterprise SDLC, created a process for performing source code security reviews & threat modeling, and managed the attack & penetration team. Before Equifax, Dhanjani was Senior Advisor at Foundstone's Professional Services group where, in addition to performing security assessments, he contributed to and taught Foundstone's Ultimate Hacking security courses.

Dhanjani holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Dhanjani's personal blog is located at dhanjani.com. You can follow him on Twitter here: @nitesh_dhanjani