Nitesh Dhanjani is a well known security researcher, author, and speaker. Dhanjani is currently Senior Manager at Ernst & Young LLP where he leads their Application Security Services efforts. Dhanjani is responsible for evangelizing new application security service lines, ensuring current service lines stay bleeding edge, and helping enterprises develop world-class application security strategies.

Prior to E&Y, Dhanjani was Senior Director of Application Security and Assessments at Equifax where he spearheaded brand new security efforts into enhancing the enterprise SDLC, created a process for performing source code security reviews & Threat Modeling, and managed the Attack & Penetration team. Before Equifax, Dhanjani was Senior Advisor at Foundstone's Professional Services group where, in addition to performing security assessments, he contributed and taught Foundstone's Ultimate Hacking security courses.

Dhanjani is the author of "Network Security Tools: Writing, Hacking, and Modifying Security Tools" (O'Reilly) and "HackNotes: Linux and Unix Security" (Osborne McGraw-Hill). He is also a contributing author to "Hacking Exposed 4" (Osborne McGraw-Hill) and "HackNotes: Network Security". Dhanjani has been invited to talk at various information security events such as the Black Hat Briefings, RSA, Hack in the Box, and OSCON.

Dhanjani graduated from Purdue University with both a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science.