Monnappa K A

Security Researcher and Trainer

Monnappa K A is a Security professional with over 15 years of experience in incident response and investigation. He previously worked for Microsoft & Cisco as a threat hunter mainly focusing on threat hunting, investigation, and research of advanced cyber attacks.

He is the author of the best-selling book “Learning Malware Analysis.”He is the review board member for Black Hat Asia, Black Hat USA, Black Hat Europe. He is the creator of Limon Linux sandbox and the winner of the Volatility plugin contest 2016. He is the co-founder of the cybersecurity research community “Cysinfo” (https://www.cysinfo.com).

He has conducted training sessions on malware analysis, reverse engineering, and memory forensics at Black Hat, BruCON, HITB, FIRST (Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams), SEC-T, OPCDE, and 4SICS-SCADA/ICS cybersecurity summit. He has presented at various security conferences, including Black Hat, FIRST, SEC-T, 4SICS-SCADA/ICS summit, DSCI, National Cyber Defence Summit, and Cysinfo meetings on various topics related to memory forensics, malware analysis, reverse engineering, and rootkit analysis.  He has also authored various articles in eForensics and Hakin9 magazines. You can find some of his contributions to the community in his YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/c/MonnappaKA), and you can read his blog posts at https://cysinfo.com

What students say about this training:

“It is an excellent Malware introductory course which helps me to learn basic ideas and provide a guideline for further study in the future”

“Well organised & run”

“Particularly appreciative of how the course materials were well-prepared, and how informative [the] explanations were”

“Great course. Next time I would like to be on site.”