Balapure - Learning Metasploit Exploitation and Development

Aditya Balapure is an information security researcher, consultant, and an author with expertise in the fields of Web Application Penetration Testing and Enterprise Server Security. Aditya has 3 years' of practical experience in the field of information security. He has quite a few credentials to his name, such as Associate of ISC2 (CISSP), CEH, ECSA, MCP, a few international publications, as well as a few research articles. His deep interest in vulnerability assessment and offensive penetration testing groups him among the white hats of the information security arena. Aditya is extensively involved in conducting corporate trainings in addition to his constant hobby of vulnerability disclosure and security research.

I would like to thank God, my parents, and my friends who have been of valuable help to me always, throughout my life.

Kubilay Onur Gungor has been working in the IT Security field for more than 7 years; he started his professional security career with the cryptanalysis of imagesimages encrypted using chaotic logistic maps. He gained experience in the Network Security field by working in the Data Processing Center of Isik University where he was the president of the Information Security and Research Club. After working as a QA tester on the Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner project, he continued his career in the Penetration Testing field with one of the leading security companies in Turkey. He performed many penetration tests and consultancies for the IT infrastructure of several large clients, such as banks, government institutions, and telecommunication companies.

Currently (since September 2012), he is working with the Sony Europe Incident Management team to develop incident management and overall cyber security strategies.

Kubilay has also been developing multidisciplinary cyber security approaches, including criminology, conflict management, perception management, terrorism, unconventional warfare theory, international relations, and sociology. He is the founder of Arquanum Multidisciplinary Cyber Security and Intelligence, an international research society for implications of implementing different disciplines into cyber struggles.

Kubilay has participated in many security conferences as a frequent speaker.

Besides security certificates, he holds Foreign Policy, Marketing and Brand Management, and Surviving certificates.

He is a full-patch member of the Freedom Riders Motorcycle Club .

Abhinav Singh is a young information security specialist from India. He has a keen interest in the field of Hacking and Network Security and has adopted this field as his full-time employment. He is the author of Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook , Packt Publishing , a book dealing with pen-testing using the most widely used framework. Abhinav's work has been quoted in several portals and technology magazines. He is also an active contributor to the SecurityXploded community. He can be reached via e-mail at <>. His Twitter handle is @abhinavbom.

I would like to thank my grandparents for their blessings, my parents for their support, and my sister for being my perfect doctor.