Nishant Sharma is a Researcher and Technical Manager at Pentester Academy. He is also the Architect and Developer 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 presented/published his work at Blackhat Arsenal, Wireless Village, IoT village and Demo labs (DEFCON). He has contributed to "Pentest Gadget book" authored by Mr. Vivek Ramachandran and multiple security-related tools/projects like Vulnerable Router Project, Damn Vulnerable Wordpress and WiFi forensics challenges. Prior to joining Pentester Academy, he worked as a firmware developer at Mojo Networks where he contributed in developing new features for the enterprise-grade WiFi APs and maintaining the 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.
