Danish Tariq

Security Engineer & Security Researcher

Danish Tariq is a Security Engineer by profession and a Security researcher by passion. He has been working in Cyber Security for over 8 years and it all started out of a curiosity to break things and look deep down into those things (physical or virtual) back in his teenage years. His major expertise is Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessments.

He was also involved in bug bounty programs as well, where he helped many companies by finding vulnerabilities at different levels. Companies include Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, Blackberry, Adobe, etc.

– Spoke @ BlackHat MEA 2022 (Briefing: Supply-Chain Attacks)

– Featured in “The Register” for an initial workaround for the NPM dependency attacks.

– Certified Ethical Hacker, Certified Vulnerability Assessor (CVA), Certified AppSec Practitioner, Certified Network Security Specialist (CNSS), IBM Cyber Security Analyst

– Ex-Chapter Leader @ OWASP

– Ex-Top Rated freelancer (Information security category) on Upwork

– Recent security research and CVEs include – CVE-2022-2848 & CVE-2022-25523

– Served as a Moderator @ OWASP 2022 Global AppSec APAC.