Manideep Konakandla is an Author, Security Researcher, Speaker and a J.N Tata Scholar. He has 10 years of experience in security which includes around 6 years of industry experience. Manideep’s primary interest is in application/product security. He also likes exploring other areas in security and worked on container security, wireless security and physical devices security in the past. Manideep completed his Master’s in Information Security from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) with an outstanding student service award for his research. At his graduation ceremony, CMU said - “Manideep undoubtedly helped raise the profile of CMU and INI”.

After Masters, he joined Amazon’s Application Security team in Seattle where he is currently a Senior Security Engineer and a Tech Lead. He recently started working as the tech lead for a new project on improving the security of Amazon’s mobile applications. Before this engagement, Manideep was the tech lead of a team working on designing, building secure by default controls into internal web frameworks to mitigate top web vulnerabilities. He also worked a lot on architecture reviews, threat modelling, code reviews and security testing for complex Amazon applications related to payments, identity and sellers. Manideep fixed lot of gaps in OWASP CSRF prevention cheat sheet and is now one of the primary author and editor of it.

Before Masters, Manideep worked as a Tech Lead for Core Security & Data Analytics team at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in INDIA where he led people with 3 to 4 times his experience. He worked with CIO, IT security head and received appreciations for his extraordinary performance in enhancing organization's security posture.

Below are some of Manideep’s career highlights

• Featured in India's largest circulated newspapers including Deccan Chronicle, The Hindu, The Hans India, Vaartha, Andhra Jyothi, Sakshi, Andhrabhoomi etc. for his achievements in security domain. He was also interviewed by HMTV news channel
• Presented research findings at multiple conferences including at OWASP AppSec USA, BSides San Francisco, Container World, RSA Conference (poster), ZonCon and WebdevCon (Amazon internal), Grehack etc.
• Received ~45,000$ in scholarships for his master’s degree from ISC2 Organization, ISSA Foundation, J.N Tata Endowment and Carnegie Mellon University
• Selected as an RSAC Scholar to represent Carnegie Mellon at RSA Conference 2017
• Authored a book at an age of 21 which made him one of the youngest authors in INDIA to write a book on Hacking. Looking back at the book today, Manideep feels that he should have done better on it
• Youngest member in a cyber-security exercise conducted by British Petroleum (BP). Rest of the members in the exercise include C.S.O of IBM, Wipro, HP, Infosys and TCS
• Trained more than 15,000 people in the field of Information Security domain including corporate security teams, corporate developers, cyber police and students
• Has bunch of certifications under his name
• Reported critical vulnerabilities on many websites and applications including Yahoo Messenger, Jease CMS, universities providing masters in information and cyber security - CMU, Purdue, USC, NEU, SUNY Brook etc. Has 2 dozen (low critical) WP plugin, CMS CVE-IDs under his name
• Speaker at more than 60 seminars and workshops on 'Cyber Crime Eradication' and 'Ethical Hacking & Cyber Forensics' including at IIT Guwahati, ISTE (Indian Society for Technical Education), CSI (Computer Society of India) and Tata Consultancy Services
• Worked as a research assistant at Cylab, one of the world’s finest security research institutes
• Cracked Sodexo MNC meal passes barcode algorithm and presented it at NULL security meetup
• Co-author of Center for Internet Security (CIS) Docker 1.12 benchmark
• Worked as a part-time faculty for C and C++ during sophomore days and trained more than 1000 people in designing games, anti-virus and virus codes etc. Also, worked as a part-time faculty for Ethical Hacking courses during junior and senior years
• Despite his extra-curricular activities, Manideep was always one among the top 1% students throughout his academics

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