About the Authors

Prashant Verma, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) is a Sr. Practice Manager—Security Testing at Paladion Networks. Information security has been his interest and research area for the past 10 years. He has been involved with mobile security since 2008. One of his career achievements has been to establish mobile security as a service at Paladion Networks.

He loves to share his knowledge, research, and experience via training, workshops, and guest lectures. He has spoken at premier global security conferences such as OWASP Asia Pacific 2012 in Sydney and RSA Conference Asia Pacific and Japan 2014 in Singapore. He has shared his knowledge via webinars and trainings.

He is primary security consultant for leading financial institutions.

His banking security experience was translated into his co-authored book Security Testing Handbook for Banking Applications, IT Governance Publishing. He has written articles for Hacki9 and Palizine Magazine.

Beyond mobile platforms, he holds expertise in various other areas of InfoSec, such as Security Testing, Security Management and Consulting. He has occasionally, analyzed security incidents and cybercrimes. He has conducted assessments for organizations globally at multiple locations. He is a subject matter expert and his work has earned him a distinguished position with his customers.

He can be contacted at verma.prashantkumar@gmail.com. His Twitter handle is @prashantverma21. He occasionally writes on his personal blog at www.prashantverma21.blogspot.in.

I would like to thank my parents, my wife, my sister, and my colleagues and friends for supporting and encouraging me for this book.

Akshay Dixit is an information security specialist, consultant, speaker, researcher, and entrepreneur. He has been providing consulting services in information security to various government and business establishments, specializing in mobile and web security. Akshay is an active researcher in the field of mobile security. He has developed various commercial and in-house tools and utilities for the security assessment of mobile devices and applications. His current research involves artificial intelligence and mobile device exploitation. He has been invited to several international conferences to give training, talks and workshops. He has written articles for various blogs and magazines on topics such as mobile security, social engineering, and web exploitation.

Akshay co-founded and currently holds the position of Chief Technology Officer at Anzen Technologies, an information security consulting firm specializing in providing end-to-end security services.

Anzen Technologies (http://www.anzentech.com) is a one-stop solution for industry-leading services, solutions and products in the cyber security, IT governance, risk management, and compliance space. Anzen's vision is to instill end-to-end security in organizations, aligned to their business requirements, in order to ensure their lasting success.

I would like to thank my Baba, a scholar, an inspiration, and one of the best storytellers I've met. I thank my parents, my brother, my sister, all the people who think well of and for me, and my wife Parul, a dreamer and a friend.