Nishant Sharma is a Researcher and Technical Manager at Pentester Academy and Attack Defense. He is also the Architect at Hacker Arsenal where he leads the development of multiple gadgets for WiFi pentesting such as WiMonitor, WiNX and WiMini. He also handles technical content creation and moderation for Pentester Academy TV. He has 7+ years of experience in information security field including 5+ years in WiFi security research and development. He has conducted WiFi Pentesting training at Blackhat USA. He has also delivered other trainings/workshops at HITB Amsterdam/Singapore, OWASP NZ day, DEFCON USA villages. He has presented/published his work at Blackhat USA/Asia Arsenal, DEFCON USA/China, Wireless Village, Packet Village and IoT village. Prior to joining Pentester Academy, he worked as a firmware developer and contributed in developing new features for the enterprise-grade WiFi APs and maintaining the state of the art WIPS solution. He has a Master degree in Information Security from IIIT Delhi. He has also published peer-reviewed academic research on HMAC security. His areas of interest include WiFi and IoT security, AD security, forensics and cryptography.
