About Me

I’m Bhagavan Bollina, aka xcriminal, a hacker and security aficionado. I’m currently pursuing my masters of engineering in Cybersecurity at University of Maryland, College Park. I’m passionate about breaking and building things in the cloud. I enjoy exploring cloud security, web security, and network security.

I was a core member of the cloud security R&D and testing team at Appsecco. My enthusiasm for cloud security has led me to do multiple community speaking engagements at null meetups and conferences.

Skills & Expertise

▶ Application Security      ▶ Cloud Security
▶ Network Security          ▶ Red Teaming
▶ Threat Hunting            ▶ Malware Analysis
▶ DevSecOps             

Achievements

• Won the Pentesters Academy’s labs for winning the Cloud Security Sprint challenge, 2022
• Secured 8th Rank in Payatu all India hiring CTF challenge, 2021
• Ranked all-time Top 1000 Security Researchers & MVP Q3 (2020) in Bugcrowd
• Worked as Academic Affairs Secretary at BML Munjal University, 2020-2021
• Received Appreciation from United Nations Information Security Team for ethically reporting a vulnerability in their domain, 2020
• Responsibly reported bugs in applications to 100+ organizations and received monetary rewards and hall of fame recognition

Publications

• “Offensive Web Application Security Framework.” Design Engineering.
• “SQL -Mode, Detection & Prevention.” International Journal of All Research Education and Scientific Methods (IJARESM)
• “An Analysis of Cloud Security.” International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET)

Certifications

• Cisco Cyber Security Fundamentals
• Certified Ethical Hacker(CEH V11)
• Google Technical Fundamentals
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• Certified Azure Red Teaming Professional(CARTP)
• eLearnSecurity Web Application Penetration Tester Extreme (eWPTXv2)
• Certified Red Teaming Professional (CRTP)
• Certified Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK)
• Certified Cloud Security Knowledge (BSCP)

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