Abhay Bhargav is the founder and CTO of we45 Solutions India Pvt. Ltd., an information security solutions company. As the CTO of we45, his primary role is to deliver information security consulting solutions for diverse clientele. He also oversees the information security research and application development activities of we45. He has performed security assessments for enterprises in various industires including banking, software development, retail, telecom, and legal. Previously, he was a security assessor for the payment card industry and has led several security assessments for payment card industry compliance. He specializes in Web application security and has performed security testing and consulting engagements for a wide array of enterprises and governmental/quasi-governmental entities. He also possesses security code review, vulnerability assessment, and penetration testing experience. He has been involved in several such assessments for small and large clients from various industries. Abhay is a regular speaker at industry events. He has spoken at the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) AppSec Conference in New York. He is a regular speaker at prestigious industry events such as the PCI Summit in Mumbai, December 2008, Business Technology Summit and events organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). He is also a trainer and has led several public workshops on information security subjects including PCI, PA-DSS, Web application security, and risk assessment. Apart from his professional interests, Abhay is also a trained Carnatic classical flutist and vocalist. He is also a playwright who has an English comedy play to his writing credits. He blogs actively and maintains an information security blog. He writes articles on computer education for the rural youth on a weekly basis for a leading daily. Dr. B. V. Kumar, currently the director at SESCon Technology Solutions, has a Masters in Technology from IIT Kanpur and a Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of information technology at various levels and in organizations such as ComputerVision Corporation (Singapore), Parametric Technologies (Seoul, S. Korea), Sun Microsystems (India), and Infosys. Prior to SESCon, Dr. Kumar was director and chief architect at Cognizant Technology Solutions and was responsible for the research and development activities such as IP creation, technology evangelization, and branding and project support as well as new initiatives at Cognizant. Dr. Kumar has been working on the enterprise technologies for more than 8 years, focusing on the new enterprise Java and Web services technologies. As a chief architect and director at SESCon Technology Solutions, Dr. Kumar is managing IP and asset creation, technology branding and evangelization, community development, project support, and educational services. Dr. Kumar has filed for two patents in the IT space and published many technological papers in international journals and conferences. He has coauthored Web Services: An Introduction (ISBN 0070593787), J2EE Architecture (ISBN 007059936X), and, more recently, Implementing SOA Using Java EE (ISBN 0321492153).
Given that Java is the platform of choice for enterprise application development the world over, this book fills a much-needed gap by thoroughly and clearly outlining the security requirements of such a critical platform. I strongly believe that this work will prove invaluable to a wide audience, including Java developers, architects, and students. -Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO, Infosys Technologies Ltd. ... a great resource that covers all of the essential topics when building out an application security program. -Ed Bellis, CISO, Orbitz Worldwide