In this episode listen to Vivek talk about how he was introduced to computers & how an internship in Switzerland helped him find his calling in infosec, his journey from SecurityTube.net to Pentester Academy , to writing comic-books for security enthusiast and eventually starting his current venture SquareX .
This episode brings you the exclusive story of Vivek's infosec journey which he confirmed about talking for the 1st time on a podcast. Tune in to this almost 2 hour long episode to learn in detail about his journey.
Speaker Intro
Vivek Ramachandran is the Founder of SquareX, which is building a productivity-first consumer security product and has raised a 6M USD seed round from Sequoia Capital SEA.
Previously, he was the Founder, CEO of Pentester Academy which trained thousands of customers from government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and smaller enterprises from over 90 countries. Pentester Academy was acquired by INE in 2021.
Vivek has been researching Wi-Fi security for over a decade. He discovered the Caffe Latte attack, broke WEP Cloaking, conceptualized enterprise Wi-Fi Backdoors, created Chellam (Wi-Fi Firewall), WiMonitor Enterprise (802.11ac monitoring), Chigula (Wi-Fi traffic analysis via SQL), Deceptacon (IoT Honeypots) and others. He is the author of multiple five star rated books on Wi-Fi security which have together sold over 20,000+ copies worldwide and have been translated to multiple languages.
He is a regular speaker/trainer at top security conferences such as Blackhat USA, Europe and Abu Dhabi, DEFCON, Brucon, HITB, Hacktivity and others. Vivek’s work on wireless security (Caffe Latte attack) has been quoted in BBC online, InfoWorld, MacWorld, The Register, IT World Canada and others.
You can reach out to him on
Twitter - https://twitter.com/vivekramac LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekramachandran/ SquareX - https://sqrx.com/
SquareX LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/squarexonline/
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