Nikhil Mittal is a hacker, infosec researcher, speaker and enthusiast. His area of interest includes red teaming, active directory security, attack research, defense strategies and post exploitation research. He has 10+ years of experience in red teaming. He specializes in assessing security risks at secure environments that require novel attack vectors and "out of the box" approach. He has worked extensively on Active Directory attacks, defense and bypassing detection mechanisms and Offensive PowerShell for red teaming. He is creator of multiple tools like Nishang, a post exploitation framework in PowerShell and Deploy-Deception a framework for deploying Active Directory deception. In his spare time, Nikhil researches on new attack methodologies and updates his tools and frameworks. Nikhil has held trainings and boot camps for various corporate clients (in US, Europe and SE Asia), and at the world's top information security conferences. He has spoken/trained at conferences like Defcon, BlackHat, CanSecWest, BruCON, 44CON and more. He blogs at https://www.labofapenetrationtester.com/