About the Author
Prakhar Prasad is a web application security researcher and penetration tester
from India. He has been a successful participant in various bug bounty programs
and has discovered security aws on websites such as Google, Facebook, Twitter,
PayPal, Slack, and many more. He secured the tenth position worldwide in the year
2014 at HackerOne's platform. He is OSCP and OSWP certied, which are some of
the most widely respected certications in the information security industry. He
occasionally performs training and security assessment for various government,
non-government, and educational organizations.
I am thankful from the bottom of my heart to the editors of this
book, Kajal Thapar, Amrita Noronha, and Manthan Raja, for helping
and assisting me at various stages of this book. The kick starter
behind this book is my dear friend Rafay Baloch, a known name in
the ethical-hacking community; he has been a constant source of
encouragement and motivation.
The last chapter of this book on API testing is written entirely by
Pranav Hivarekar, a renowned researcher in the domain of web
application security, who is a very good friend of mine and a down-
to-earth human being. I'm immensely thankful to him for coming up
with and authoring a guest chapter for this book.
I'll do injustice if I don't mention my family, friends, and loved ones,
who have always worked behind the scenes to keep me pumped up
and motivated at different stages of this book. This book wouldn't be
possible without their efforts.
