About

Nagasahas DS is a highly skilled Technical Security Architect and Senior Security Consultant with over a decade of experience in the field of Information Security. He is passionate about exploring and learning new technologies and has a strong background in software testing and application security. Nagasahas is also a major contributor to the open-source community, having been recognized for his skills in security and awarded a bug bounty for several security bugs reported. Nagasahas has extensive knowledge of industry, security developments, and programming techniques. He is adept in risk assessment, project management, and security audits and has a thorough hands-on understanding of web-based application attacks and defenses, including at least the OWASP Top 10 and familiarity with penetration testing methods. Nagasahas is capable of independently solving complex technical problems without direct supervision and has strong hands in testing an application for various web applications to SQL injection, XSS, and other top 10 OWASP vulnerabilities. Currently working as a Senior Information Security Consultant for Happiest Minds, Nagasahas collaborates with product development and solution teams proactively to manage software security risk aligned with business goals and to achieve Secure Development Lifecycle. He is responsible for scoping security activities based on Business requirement document and Architecture, security architectural review, and risk assessments. Nagasahas also engages in a wide variety of security activities from Application Penetration testing, Network/Servers, Vulnerability Assessments, Secure Code Reviews, Firewall Configuration Review, Risk Assessments, Architecture review, Data and Privacy Assessments, Threat modeling, and much more. Prior to his current role, Nagasahas has worked with SAP as a Sr. Product Security Expert, Team Lead, and Principal Security Engineer. He has conducted application security assessments on various SAP products and other acquisitions/partners and has also reviewed and analyzed SAP security patches. Nagasahas has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from Sir M Visvesvaraya Institute of Technology and a Diploma of Education in Computer Science from M.N.Technical Institute - India. Overall, Nagasahas is an Information Security freak with a great knowledge of Information Security, Software testing, and understanding of the application on the first glance. He is well equipped with open-source and freeware tools to test web applications for security and has worked as a Security Consultant for various projects, helping them fix the issues.