Top 10 Ethical Hackers of India 2016

This list got the best Indian patriotic hackers which did change the meaning of hacking, hacking is not what we call stealing or making frauds they give it a new name a motive to fight back for India without any means of greed or something. They fought for the nation's pride.
The Top Ten
1 Saket Modi

Saket Modi is the Co-founder and CEO of Lucideus, an enterprise cyber security platforms company.A computer science engineer by education, he founded Lucideus in 2012 while in his final year of engineering. Incubated from IIT Bombay and backed by Cisco's former Chairman and CEO John Chambers, Lucideus today protects multiple Fortune 500 companies with its cyber risk measurement and mitigation platform called SAFE.Saket is a part of Fortune Magazine's 40under40, Entrepreneur Magazine's 35under35, Forbes Magazine's 30under30 lists among others. He was given the title of "Champion of Change" by the Government of India in 2017.

2 Ankit Fadia

Ankit Fadia is an independent computer security and digital intelligence consultant with definitive experience in the field of Internet security based out of the Silicon Valley in California, USA. He has authored 14 internationally best-selling books on numerous topics related to Computer Security that have been widely appreciated by both professionals and industry leaders the world over. His books have sold a record 10 million copies across the globe, have been translated into Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Polish and are also being used as reference textbooks in some of the most prestigious academic institutions around the world. He was one of eight people named MTV India's Youth Icon of the Year for the year 2008.

3 Sunny Vaghela

Sunny Vaghela is one of the countries pioneer Information Security & Cyber Crime Consultant. The young and dynamic personality of Sunny has not only assisted in solving complex cyber crime cases but has also played an instrumental role in creating awareness about information security and cyber crimes. During his graduation at Nirma University he developed projects like SMS Based Control System, Voice Recognition Based Control System exhibiting his sharp acumen for technology. At the age of 18, Sunny exposed loopholes like SMS & Call Forging in Mobile Networks. The technology that allowed to send SMS or Make Call to any International Number from any number of your choice. At Present, He is Director & Chief Technical Officer at TechDefence Consulting Pvt Ltd which is rapidly growing security services & investigation consulting organization focusing on Cyber Crime Investigations, Cyber Law Consulting, Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing, Informabertion Security Training.

4 Manan Shah

Manan Shah is an Indian entrepreneur and ethical hacker. He is the co-founder and CEO of Avalance Security, an online cyber security company involved with securing government and corporate web services.

He has been awarded the title of "Most Valuable Professional (MVP)" by the Microsoft for Securing Cyber Space. He is commonly referred to as the "Indian Firewall" and is a frequent technology writer in the Indian media. His the also holder of Limca Book of Record and Guinness Book of World Record.

His also spoken at security conferences including BlackHat, ToorCon, Clubhack, Defcon Chennai, Defcon Bangalore, Nullcon, THC etc. about my research findings.

His also Founded and Reported Vulnerability (Bugs) in Numerous Web Applications including Twitter, Yahoo!, Facebook, Nokia,Blackberry, Paypal, Skype, Dropbox, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Ping.fm, Adobe etc, Soundcloud, Samsung, IIT, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, etc.

in 2016 his part of Microsoft world's best 100 ...more

5 Vivek Ramchandran

Vivek Ramachandran is a world renowned security researcher and evangelist. His expertise includes computer and network security, exploit research, wireless security, computer forensics, embedded systems security, compliance and e-Governance. He is the author of the books �" "Wireless Penetration Testing using Backtrack" and "The Metasploit Megaprimer", both up for worldwide release in mid 2011. Vivek is a B.Tech from IIT Guwahati and an advisor to the computer science department's Security Lab. In 2006, Microsoft declared Vivek as one of the winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout Contest held in India among an estimated 65,000 participants. The competition was aimed at finding leading Security Experts in India. Vivek was also awarded a Team Achievement Award by Cisco Systems for his contribution to the 802.1x and Port Security modules in the Catalyst 6500 series of switches. These are high end security features used in Enterprises

6 Rahul Tyagi

Rahul Tyagi is a sovereign computer security consultant and has state-of-the-art familiarity in the field of computers. Recently Tyagi conversed with several media channels to create consciousness in people regarding the threats and terror of hacking. He was also invited as a speaker in the principal ethical hacking conference definitely CON, Chennai where he presented his research paper amongst other security experts. His research paper has also been published globally on exploit-db and packetstormsecurity, which are world renowned research paper database communities.

Rahul Tyagi is presently working as the brand ambassador of TCIL-IT Chandigarh as Corporate Ethical Hacking Trainer. He also provides his services to 'Cyber Security & Anti hacking Organization of India' as Vice-President. Additionally, he is the Technical Head of News Paper Association of India as well.

7 Trishneet Arora

Trishneet Arora is an Indian author, cyber security expert, and entrepreneur. Arora has written books on various topics related to Cyber Security, Ethical Hacking and Web Defense.

With no family background in computers, Arora, a first-generation entrepreneur, set up his own company - TAC Security Solutions, which is into providing security to the corporate against any network vulnerabilities and data theft. Some of his prominent corporate clients include Reliance Industries, Central Bureau of Investigation, Punjab Police (India) and Gujarat Police.He also helps Punjab and Gujrat police in cracking down on cyber crime, and training senior level officers. Arora has already offered training to employees of some of the corporate giants.

He has now turned his company's focus on providing specialised services to corporates called Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) as he has seen an increase in number of cases wherein portals of companies are hacked for ...more

8 Aseem Jakhar
9 Aaditya Purani

Aaditya Purani is one of the Finest Security Researcher from India. He is well rounded, passionate and fast in cracking things. As far as I can tell, he is the best Indian CTF Player, and he also plays with Current World Number 1 Team DCUA. I wish him all the best for his future in United States. He deserves this.

10 Santhosh Kothakota
The Contenders
11 Sai Satish

Sai Satish is an young Entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of Indian Servers. Administrator of Andhrahackers (Top hacking awareness forum in INDIA).Author of "HACKING SECRETS" an Internationally sold hacking book, a renowned Ethical Hacker & Cyber Security Expert. Thousands of college students and professionals got benefited by his lectures which are delivered at 90+ colleges all over the WORLD. He worked as Microsoft Student Partner, Corporate.Net Trainer. He was rewarded by IAS officers for pentesting on government sites, which helped to them to improve security and safe transactions and Forensic Investigator. He was interviewed by Many International, national and regional news channels like Dap News(caombodia), AAjtak, The Hindu,Deccan Chronicle, Zee T.V.,TV9, NTV, Eenadu, Sakshi etc.
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12 Koushik Dutta

Rings a bell? Koushik Dutta or "Koush" is responsible for Clockworkmod recovery and Rom Manager for Android rooting and the core member of famed UnrEVOked team. He has been a.net developer from heart and had his internship initially at Microsoft and is a former MVP. He decided to leave Microsoft and hack Android cellphones like there was no tomorrow. Sony approached him after geohot humped them like anything but he politely declined.

Sony approached him after geohot humped them like anything but he politely declined
Bravo for his efforts, we are able to root painlessly using UnREVOked.
Now only if UnrEVOked can release UnrEVOked 3.33 soon

13 Pankaj Patidar
14 Harsha Vardhan
15 Rahul Sasi
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