Melih Tas received B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science & Engineering. He is working as a Security Consultant at Synopsys in London, UK. Previous to that he worked as Principal Penetration Tester and Product Owner in a private bank between 2015 and 2020 in Istanbul, Turkey. He also worked as multiple times award-winning entrepreneur and security expert in a private cybersecurity R&D company between 2010 and 2015 where he worked on funded projects. Previous to them, he also worked in a global troubleshooting center where he found the root causes of telecommunication security incidents and frauds and designed measures to prevent them from happening again. He wrote the National VoIP/UC Security Standard Draft by cooperating with the Turkish Standards Institute. He is the author of open-source projects Mr.SIP: SIP-Based Audit and Attack Tool and SIP-DD: SIP-Based DDoS Defense Tool. He holds an OSCP certificate. He is an active speaker in hacker conferences including DEF CON, Black Hat Arsenal, Offzone and NopCon. He likes to do bug bounty hunting in his spare time. His research interests include the design and analysis of both offensive and defensive security mechanisms in the fields of VoIP Security, Network Security, and Web/Mobile Application Security.
