User:Vandave

Vandana Verma Sehgal


Vandana is a seasoned security professional with over a decade worth of experience ranging from application security to infrastructure and now dealing with DevSecOps and Cloud Security.

Vandana is a global speaker and Women in Cyber Security Advocate. She received Global cybersecurity influencer among IFSEC Global's "Top Influencers in Security and Fire" Category for 2019. She recently received Cybersecurity Women of the year award by Women Cyberjutsu Society in the Category “Secure Coder”. She has also been listed as one of the top women leaders in this field of technology and cybersecurity in India by Instasafe.

She works with various communities (InfoseGirls, OWASP, WoSec and null) and is passionate about increasing female participation in Infosec space. She has trained over 400 Diversity Participants around the globe on Web Application Security.

 CTF Winner 
 * WINJA at Nullcon, Goa 2015

 Speaker 
 * Defcon - AppSec Village (August, 2019)
 * Diana Initiative (August, 2019)
 * RootConf, Bangalore 2019 (Developers Conference)
 * Security Guild 2019 - Link
 * Owasp ApSec EU (July 2018)


 * Kids Glove at c0c0n (Kerala Police Conference), 2017

 Trainer   Paper Review Committee 
 * Nullcon, Goa 2017
 * BSides Delhi, 2018
 * AppSec USA (October 2018)
 * AppSec California (January 2019)
 * Training for St. Cloud University, Minnesota (January 2019)
 * Training for Cairo University, Egypt (February 2019)
 * Owasp Seasides (March 2019)
 * Global AppSec Tel Aviv (May 2019)
 * Assistant Trainer at Blackhat USA (August, 2019)

●     Global AppSec Tel Aviv 2019

●     Grace Hopper USA 2019 (Security/Privacy Review Track)

●     Grace Hopper India 2019 (Security/Privacy Review Track)

●     BSides Ahmedabad

 International Award and Honours 

●     Cybersecurity Women of the year award by Women Cyberjutsu Society in the Category “Secure Coder”

●      Counted as Top #5 Global cybersecurity influencer among IFSEC Global's "Top Influencers in Security and Fire" Category for 2019:

●      listed as one of the top women leaders in this field of technology and cybersecurity in India

●     Appreciation Letter from Head of the Cyber Security Department, St. Cloud University, Minnesota

 Upcoming Speaking Engagements:- 

●     11th September - Keynote Speaker at Global AppSec DC -  https://dc.globalappsec.org/

●     06th November - All Day DevOps (Online Conference)- (https://www.alldaydevops.com/addo-speakers)

 Mentions:- 

Hacker Stories with Kim Crawley on Peerlyst (https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/hacker-heroes-vandana-verma-kimberly-crawley)

HackInterview - https://medium.com/bugbountywriteup/hackinterview-with-vandana-document-your-learning-in-the-form-of-blogs-3b265ec03be1

Owasp hacker Kids :- (Interview on the event)

Twitter:- InfosecVandana

Linkedin:- Vandana Verma

Email : Vandana.verma@owasp.org