Jugnoo's tech team roped in industry maven Anand Prakash for an evangelized security training session

Jugnoo, a leading mobile app, offering the largest network of auto-rickshaws in India, roped in undisputed guru of ethical hacking, Anand Prakash, as a trainer for a knowledge-sharing session with the tech team of the company. The profound session was aimed at familiarizing the employees on the security threats and vulnerabilities and how to overcome them, giving them insights on the best practices in application security. Aligned with the trend of tech enthusiasts and industry experts lending their knowledge and sharing experiences to enrich their learning, the session was held at Jugnoo's office on 8th January 2016.

Ethical hacking has gained acceptance from the start-up community off-late. Start-ups have started engaging with ethical hackers to identify security loopholes and offer bounty on successfully identifying them. This has also helped startups to fix technology issues in real time and scale up their operations.

Elaborating on the evangelized training session, Samar Singla, Founder and CEO, Jugnoo commented, "We are absolutely delighted to have Anand Prakash volunteer for a session with our employees. It would not only help them in honing their coding skills and identifying loopholes in the system, but will also help them develop an eye for errors. Owing to his passion in the segment, Anand has won many accolades and has been acknowledged and conferred by many social media giants. This makes him the perfect curator for a company with young employees to help them scale in the field."

Anand Prakash is an ethical hacker who believes that people should always follow responsible disclosure. He gave wing to his career with the social media Goliath Facebook, through its bug bounty programme. So far, Anand has reported over 80 bugs on Facebook. He found a vulnerability with Facebook's "Say Thanks" campaign for which he was awarded $12,500, He also interned with Cyber Crime Branch of Gurgaon police to nab cyber criminals.

He has been recognized by many industry biggies for his work like, Facebook, Twitter, Google, RedHat, Github, Yahoo, Etsy, Myntra, Dropbox, Adobe, eBay, Paypal, Coinbase, LaunchKey, Nokia, Mailchimp, ManageWP, Gliph, PikaPay, Bitmit, LocalBitcoins.com, Blackberry, SoundCloud, Angel.co, HackerOne, Active Prospect etc. for reporting security vulnerabilities. He is at present the top most security researcher on Facebook (3rd rank) and Twitter (2nd rank) in the world.

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