Anand Prakash Profile
Anand Prakash

@anandpraka_sh

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Founder & CEO, @pingsafeai , Top ranked whitehat hacker on Twitter, Uber, LinkedIn, Meta

Singapore
Joined March 2013
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Anand Prakash
2 years
[NEW] [FIXED] Shiba Inu cloud credentials leaked on a public repository! Full Story here: #bugbounty #cloudsecurity #web3community #Cryptocurency #shibainu @CoinDesk @Cointelegraph @PingsafeAI
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Anand Prakash
5 years
[Bug bounty] How I could have hacked your Uber account! Read here:
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Anand Prakash
11 months
PingSafe raises $3.3M seed funding round to expand globally.
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Anand Prakash
6 years
Hacking Tinder Accounts using Facebook Accountkit (fixed)
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Anand Prakash
8 years
A very simple Facebook account takeover bug reward $15k reported by me
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Anand Prakash
5 years
[Bug Bounty] Leakage of Client Secret, Server tokens of all Uber developer applications
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Anand Prakash
7 years
How I took control of your Twitter account (tweeting, viewing/deleting photos and other media)
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Killing an Uber bug that gave anyone, absolutely anyone, free rides for life: another "ethical hacker" story for you.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
#SaturdayMood I found a bug in Tinder app in 2018 and earned a bounty of $5,000 from Facebook and $1250 from Tinder, separately. I tried everything before I arrived at this. More context on this article -
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Anand Prakash
2 years
Indian companies will end up paying fines up to 250 crores per the new Data Protection Bill. More seriousness of cyber security in companies? #cybersecurity #cloudsecurity #itsecurity @PingsafeAI
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Anand Prakash
5 months
Almost a decade ago, my journey in cyber security started as a white hat hacker finding bugs in platforms that were used by billions of people. I made a living out of bug bounty while @MittalNishant7 has been focused on solving payments for millions of users.
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Anand Prakash
5 months
Thank you, Mårten. HackerOne played a phenomenal role in my journey in cyber security. 🙏
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Mårten Mickos
5 months
Congrats to ethical hacker Anand Prakash on an amazing outcome for his startup PingSafe, acquired for over $100 million by SentinelOne
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Anand Prakash
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Anand Prakash
7 years
[Fixed] How anyone could have used Uber to ride for free! #bugbounty
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Anand Prakash
8 months
Stoked to share the first brand film by @pingsafeai to reinstate the voice that keeps most CISOs awake at night - compliance won't make you hack-proof. Making an engaging ad on the topic of #CloudSecurity has been the toughest challenge we've faced in a long time. #cnapp #cspm
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Anand Prakash
4 years
@vivekramac sir your videos of wifi hacking in 2013 helped newbies like me to start career in cyber security 😍😍🙏🙏🙏
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Anand Prakash
10 years
Facebook vulnerability that allowed attacker to post from victim's profile http://t.co/eseG4G40zD cc @Bugcrowd @Hacker0x01 #bugbounty
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Anand Prakash
1 year
We're hiring. Know any white hat hackers out there? 😎 Cc: @PingsafeAI
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Anand Prakash
6 years
I am very excited to be speaking at this important conference around Blockchain Security in Las Vegas! Join me in the discussion at @hoshocon with this 25% discount off registration. hashtag #HoshoCon
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Most white hat hackers rewarded in the world by Facebook are in India. But how does a hacker become a founder and why? This is my story.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Having the opportunity to learn wifi hacking from you and now having you as an angel investor @PingSafeai is an incredibly proud moment for me and my team, sir! ❤️
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Vivek Ramachandran
1 year
Great to finally meet @anandpraka_sh of @PingsafeAI over dinner - very proud of what they have achieved in such a short time! @PingsafeAI is also my first angel investment! Thanks to @smdcmc for connecting me with Anand.
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Anand Prakash
7 years
Excited to become a part of Tech30 India #yourstory #tsparks
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7 years
#Tech30 Company #1 : AppSecure, a startup focussing on using crowdsourced vulnerability information to make applications secure. #tsparks
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Anand Prakash
6 years
Thank you @freeCodeCamp
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Quincy Larson
6 years
This guy is a living legend. It's exciting to learn how he operates, and to write about him.
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Anand Prakash
6 years
In Las Vegas for @HoshoCon - the first blockchain security conference #Hoshocon
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Anand Prakash
1 year
15% of all couples in the world meet in college so what are the odds that 2 hackers will meet in college, fall in love and be happily married ? This is my favorite women's day story, mostly because every year on this day - it's my #womanintech 's birthday.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
It all started in 2008 when my family in Rajasthan sent me to Kota by chance. I say "chance" because Kota was unheard of in my predominantly farmer family.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
#StillHiring (email dafny @pingsafe .com if interested) 23% of startups fail because of hiring the wrong people, it took us a few years but how we got this one thing right is personally a big achievement.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Onboarding a wrong co-founder is a type 2 error, which makes it one of the top reasons for startup failures. And if you find the right co-founder who loves the problem you’re solving as much as you do, it’s a match made in heaven 😃
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Anand Prakash
1 year
We play devil's advocates all the time and so we're able to safeguard corporates and customers the way we do. 😎 See how i did it here-
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Thank you for believing in our vision and working with us to make it a reality. I am extremely appreciative of the entire Surge team. @pushpakkedia @Sid_1_0 @swatik_80 @smdcmc @_surgeahead ❤️ @MittalNishant7
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Anandamoy Roychowdhary
1 year
Killing it at @G2dotcom ratings in their first year of listing @PingsafeAI ! take a bow team @sehacure @MittalNishant7 @Sid_1_0 @pushpakkedia , keep on surging @_surgeahead :)
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Back in 2017, while trying to routinely check up on applications that are used by everyday people to find anomalies in codes, I started looking at Uber as an interesting case study.
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Anand Prakash
2 years
At @nullcon Goa! Let’s catchup 🤗
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Anand Prakash
4 years
Download PhotoStat app(Indian) - a free alternative to the CamScanner app. Link:
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Anand Prakash
7 years
seems like @Unocoin was hacked. says possible data leak of all customers.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Finally!, some good news for #privacy in India! Excited to see the DPDP Bill 2022 promote co-regulation for better compliance & enforcement. All my fellow #cybersecurity enthusiasts, what do you think?
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Anand Prakash
1 year
An application that is used by over 131M people in the world, I was curious if there could be any issues that would interest other hackers and I went down the rabbit hole of searching for vulnerabilities in the code. To my surprise, there was a huge one!
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Anand Prakash
6 years
Facebook’s 50 Million Users data breach
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Anand Prakash
1 year
“Is someone listening to my phone call recordings?” This question popped into my head one day while I was using a call recorder and wondered what would happen if it got hacked and my private conversations were leaked.
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Anand Prakash
11 months
As I reflect on what's to come for PingSafe, I am struck by the recognition and opportunities that have come our way to date. Together, we are driven to create a safer online world for the billions of users who rely on it.
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Anand Prakash
3 years
[New] How we could have listened to anyone's call recordings! (iOS) Thanks to @zackwhittaker from TechCrunch for getting this fixed.
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Anand Prakash
6 years
Will be delivering a talk on Bug bounty @DoRA_IITK on 21st March 2018.
@AppSecure
AppSecure Security
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@DoRA_IITK 21st March 2018.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
I was able to take several trips in the US and India without paying any money, all thanks to this bug(after taking due permission from team for replicating this bug). All I had to do was - book a ride and use an invalid payment method and the ride ended up going through as free.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
"Anand, everyone knows these cybersecurity issues, but no one wants to talk about it!" - Anil Kumar Appayanna CISO at Grab (Grab a Grub Services Ltd)
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Anand Prakash
1 year
( I even made a video to show proof-of-concept to show that all I had to do was specify an invalid payment method, expressed in a simple string of characters like "abc" or "xyz," and not be billed for the ride.) D
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Anand Prakash
5 years
Lol 😂
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Baptiste Robert
5 years
Ladies and Gentlemen, It's an honour for me to present you the encryption made in @BJP4India ...
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Anand Prakash
1 year
My co-founder and I started as enemies. Now, we’re partners in making the Internet safe for leading businesses and their customers. Nishant and I got connected through @PhonePe .
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Anand Prakash
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When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I'm a professional problem solver. Except my problems involve cybercriminals and the fate of the internet. What's your favorite problem to solve as an ethical hacker?
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Anand Prakash
1 year
proactive security for vulnerability discovery and since most of the tools would miss this, there is a need for testing your applications manually.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Thanos of LinkedIn? Reporting a bug on LinkedIn that could delete any post!
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Anand Prakash
1 year
I of course ended up alerting Uber about this and they fixed the bug the same day, curbing numerous potential issues in the future.
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Anand Prakash
6 years
@fs0c131y good news is that you are not from India. Otherwise an FIR would have been filed against you. hahaha :D
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Anand Prakash
3 years
[NEW] How we could have tracked anyone's live location using Truecaller's "Guardians" app
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Words that keep me going as a founder on some of the hardest days 🙌
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Anand Prakash
5 years
@rootxharsh Hunting beyond recon.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Although It felt extremely good to find and report this bug, issues like this are recurring and present many hard problems for brands such as revenue loss, so here are some points for brands to safeguard their applications
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Anand Prakash
1 year
@VIT_univ @facebook @PingsafeAI Moral of the story? Do what you love, always, and it'll take you to magical places.
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Anand Prakash
11 months
We couldn't have made it this far if it weren't for you. We quadrupled our customer base once in 2022, excited to do it again. This time - globally. 💪 😎
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Anand Prakash
3 years
Technical details here: @PingsafeAI @AppSecure
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Ivan Mehta
3 years
New from me and @sehacure . Truecaller's Guardian app fixed a massive bug that let hackers take over any accounts. Once the hacker took over an account, they could track your family's live location, and know their info such as name and phone number.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
We understand how hackers think and operate, and this understanding gives us a very unique perspective on solving security code issues.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
2. Consistent security assessments are required for finding new flaws like this so engage with an external community of hackers, there is nothing like 100% security.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
3.Have more checks on CI/CD to detect issues early on, this needs to be done before things get pushed to production which enables shift-left security.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Smart homes may be cool, but they're not so smart if they're vulnerable to cyberattacks, no? There will be an expected supply of 1.8 billion smart home devices by 2025, what would you do to make sure the hackers don’t come waltzing in?
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Anand Prakash
1 year
@VIT_univ @SecurityTube @Nirgoldshlager @NealPoole I joined @Flipkart as the first-ever security intern after a lot of effort, since I was not even allowed to sit in the placement interviews because of a reason I'll share another time.
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Anand Prakash
1 year
But, I know you might still be thinking, how did such a large issue go unnoticed by the team? Well, that's where the expertise of an ethical hacker like me comes in.
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Anand Prakash
9 years
[New Blog post] Hacking http://t.co/FSEMlrIj8C to see data(PII, instagram access tokens etc.) of 62.5 million users http://t.co/MGZq9oyxBi
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Visited our booth at @csabangalore yet? Come say hi and meet our experts to know how @PingsafeAI can secure your multi-cloud infrastructure.
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PingSafe (Now a Part of SentinelOne)
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Hello Bengaluru & CSA! Swing by our booth and have a chat with our experts on how PingSafe can redefine cloud security for your organization. @sehacure @dhirajapj2008 #CSA #CSABangalorechapter #cloudsecurity #cloudcompliance #CSPM #CNAP
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Bithumb Cryptocurrency Exchange duped, shows $250 million excess
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Anand Prakash
1 year
We met in 2012 in college. She was doing her M-tech and I, my B-tech. Like every young tech savvy guy in college at that point, I sent her a friend request on Facebook. She accepted it and I instantly noticed how much we both had in common - same hometown, same interests.
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Anand Prakash
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@ImManiSangwan @vivekramac Happy birthday and women's day Manisha, you inspire me like no one else! Keep shooting for the stars always. #FindYourManisha
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Anand Prakash
2 years
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@VIT_univ @SecurityTube @Nirgoldshlager @NealPoole @Flipkart @PingsafeAI I started off as a lone ranger and now India is the largest hub of ethical hunters in the world. Our unique #jugaad skills really help us think differently and solve problems that no one even anticipates.
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Anand Prakash
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Ransomware is the gift that keeps giving.. to cybercriminals, that is! The latest strain making waves in the cybersecurity community is Rorschach. How do you stay ahead of the game and ensure your business is fully protected?
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@PhonePe @PingsafeAI Without him, I’m not sure we’d be able to scale as fast as we did in the last two years. #FindYourNishant
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Anand Prakash
7 years
Seriously N/A? :(
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Osama Ansari
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Pwning a company using IDOR & Blind XSS
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Anand Prakash
1 year
@VIT_univ It was in college that I learnt about Wifi hacking through @securitytube & continued to learn for two more years. My grades started slipping since most of the things I loved were not a part of the college curriculum & I ended up getting my first ever back in the first semester.
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@ImManiSangwan Soon enough, Manisha and I started hanging out in the library, watching Wi-Fi hacking videos from @vivekramac and shared many cups of tea (she loves it and passed on the habit).
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Anand Prakash
1 year
Conversing with ETCISO was anything but cloudy! Had a great time discussing the power of offensive security in the cloud. Do watch the video, if you’re interested in learning more about it! [)
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Anandamoy Roychowdhary
1 year
@vivekramac @anandpraka_sh @PingsafeAI making the internet safer , one dinner at a time ! We at @_surgeahead are always happy to see surge founders invest in each others success :)
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Anand Prakash
1 year
How dangerous can leaked cloud credentials be for your company? And how to safeguard against them.
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Anand Prakash
5 years
@ehsahil @rootxharsh deleting my fb .
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Anand Prakash
1 year
@VIT_univ @SecurityTube @Nirgoldshlager @NealPoole @Flipkart @PingsafeAI @ET_CISO Follow @PingsafeAI for all updates on the event (they'll be more pro-active in posting updates from the event) and wish me luck, please. 😀
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We know how attackers operate because most of us ethical hackers at @PingsafeAI have been there, and done that. And so, we are solving the problem of cloud security by putting ourselves in the attackers’ shoes.
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Anand Prakash
6 years
@prakharprasad i left almost :P
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Anand Prakash
8 years
Youtube has deleted my POC video marking it as scam :\
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Anand Prakash
5 months
What's the news? PingSafe joins forces with @SentinelOne , marking a pivotal moment in the world of cybersecurity globally. This isn't just an acquisition; it's a fusion of innovation, shared visions, and a commitment to fortify the digital world we navigate every day.
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@ImManiSangwan (In case you're wondering, I did end up reporting the bug to Facebook and collected the handsome bounty.) D
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Anand Prakash
1 year
@Subhajit19017 @envoyglobal @PingsafeAI 3. "I'd say the best part is their team. The speed at which they accommodate your change/feature request is applaudable. Do you want something new? Tell them and you'll have it within a week." - @0xGaurav Security Lead, @sliceit_
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Anand Prakash
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@VIT_univ @SecurityTube @Nirgoldshlager @NealPoole For someone who was born & raised in a small city to a middle-class family, bug bounty became a source of income for me. But this got me thinking of how important it is to protect people all over the world & the role of cybersecurity in the future for regular people like you & me
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@Subhajit19017 @envoyglobal 2."There have never been false alerts & each minute spent on PingSafe’s dashboard is worth it. I strongly recommend using @PingsafeAI for cloud security" - Aditi Lath, Cloud Security Leader, Byju's
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Today, as we have this news to share, it seems surreal that a few years ago, Nishant and I coincidentally fell in love with the same problem at the same time - making the Internet safe for users across the globe.
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