Samit Anwer
Citrix R&D Software Engineer II
Bengaluru Area, India
Samit Anwer is a Web and Mobile Application Security researcher and penetration tester. He has been active in the security community since the last 3 years soon after completing his Master's degree from IIIT, Delhi in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing. He is an active member of the Null Bangalore chapter and has spoken on various security topics. He is actively involved with vulnerability research in popular Web and Mobile apps and has responsibly disclosed several security issues with Google Cloud Print API, XSS filter evasion on IE 11/MS Edge, code execution on Microsoft Windows 10, and buffer overflows on MS Edge/IE 11. He currently works for Citrix R&D India Pvt. Limited, Bangalore as a Security researcher.
His technical interests lie in using static program analysis techniques to mitigate security and performance issues on mobile/web apps, breaking web/mobile apps, and researching on cutting edge authentication and authorization mechanisms. When he is not breaking apps, you can find him occupied with outdoor sports, on a food spree or traveling.
His previous published works are as follows:
1. Chiromancer: A Tool for Boosting Android Application Performance [MobileSOFT Conference 2014, Hyderabad, India]
2. Detecting Performance Antipatterns before migrating to the Cloud [IEEE CloudCom 2013, Bristol, U.K.]
3. Performance Antipatterns: Detection and Evaluation of their Effects in the Cloud [IEEE Services 2014, Anchorage, Alaska]