Andrs Riancho is an application security expert that currently leads the community-driven, Open Source, w3af project and provides in-depth Web Application Penetration Testing services to companies around the world. In the research field, he discovered critical vulnerabilities in IPS appliances from 3com and ISS; and contributed with SAP research performed at his former employer. His main focus has always been the Web Application Security field, in which he developed w3af, a Web Application Attack and Audit Framework used extensively by penetration testers and security consultants. Andrs has spoken and held trainings at many security conferences around the globe, like PHDays (Moscow), SecTor (Toronto), OWASP (Poland), CONFidence (Poland), OWASP World C0n (USA), CanSecWest (Canada), T2 (Finland), and ekoparty (Buenos Aires). Andrs founded Bonsai in 2009 in order to further research automated Web Application Vulnerability detection and exploitation.
