Ankit Giri

Blogger, Public Speaker, and Ethical Hacker in Pune, Maharashtra, India

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Entrepreneur, presenter, and a blogger, Ankit has a diverse background in writing informational blogs. A penetration tester by profession with 8+ years of experience and a security enthusiast by heart. Part time bug bounty hunter. Featured in Hall of fame of EFF,GM,SONY, HTC, Pagerduty, HTC, AT&T,Mobikwik and with multiple other Hall Of Fames. He loves speaking in conferences, has been a feature at Cyber Security Asia 2022, TestFlix 2021, COCON 2021, RedTeam Security Summit 2020, The Hackers Meetup 2020, AWS Community Day 2020, DeepSec Austria 2019, BSides Ahemdabad 2019, RSA APAC 2018, BSides Delhi 2017, CSA, Dehradun,Cyber Square Summit, OWASP Jaipur and has been a regular feature at Infosec meetups like Null and OWASP Delhi Chapter, TestTribe and Peerlyst meetups. He had presented his research on the following topics:

Mastering AWS Pentesting and Methodology

Cloud Security & Best Practices in AWS,

Ineluctable weakness of logical vulnerabilities

Pwning Windows Mobile Applications,

IoT Security Risks & Challenges,

Application of Machine Learning in Criminal Profiling,

Pentesting Mobile Applications.

Ankit has also taken hands-on session on Securing AWS environments at null Bachaav.

He has taken guest lectures in getting started with AWS, and Mobile computing at Fore School of Management.

Recently presented guest lecture on "Ineluctable weakness of logical vulnerabilities" at IIT Roorkee, Online Summer Training Program on Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security.
Another guest lecture at The Department of Information Technology of NIT, Online One Week International Webinar Series on *Top Trending Technologies in the World.*

He has published article in PenTest magzine on IoT security. He has been a featured profile at Peerlyst.

He has recently taken up YouTube as a passion to bring the latest from the tech world with reviews, opinions and suggestions, cyber security as a career option, travel to add to the diverse personality of his!

He has founded an enterprise ASG (Ajay Shankar Giri) Consultancy which deals with cyber security awareness, training and consulting in the domain of Information security. The enterprise is named in fond memory and gratitude of his late father, and is envisioned to make the youth of India more education aware..

He is a nature lover, traveller, blogger, photography enthusiast and avid follower of governance. Being in application security domain, Ankit also takes an interest in RTI activism and carry it as a skill with RTI certifications.

  • Work
    • Tavisca, A cxLoyalty company
  • Education
    • NIET, AKTU