Nishchal Bhalla, the Founder of Security Compass, is a specialist in product, code, web application, host and network reviews. Nish has coauthored "Buffer Overflow Attacks: Detect, Exploit & Prevent" and is a contributing author for "Windows XP Professional Security", "HackNotes: Network Security", "Writing Security Tools and Exploits" and "Hacking Exposed: Web Applications, 2nd Edition". Nish has also been involved in the open source projects such as YASSP and OWASP, and is the chair of the Toronto Chapter. He has also written articles for securityfocus and also spoken at web seminars for Global Knowledge and University of Florida. He is a frequent speaker on emerging security issues. He has spoken at reputed Security Conferences such as at "Reverse Engineering Conference 2005" in Montreal, the "HackInTheBox 2005" in Malaysia and "ISC2's Infosec Conference" in Las Vegas and New York. He also has created and taught the Exploiting & Defending Classes for Security Compass. Some of the upcoming conferences he is going to be speaking at are "ISC2's Infosec Conference" in DC/Toronto, CSI's NetSec conference in Arizona and Dallascon. Prior to joining Security Compass, Nish was a Principal Consultant at Foundstone, where he performed numerous security reviews (Web Application / Code ) for major software companies, online banking and trading & e-commerce sites. He also helped develop and teach the "Secure Coding" class, the Ultimate Hacking, Ultimate Web Hacking and Ultimate Hacking Expert classes. Prior to working at Foundstone, Nish provided engineering and security consulting services as an independent consultant to a variety of organizations including Sun Microsystems, Lucent Technologies, TD Waterhouse & The Axa Group. Nish holds his Masters in Parallel Processing from Sheffield University, is a post graduate in Finance from Strathclyde University and a Bachelor in Commerce from Bangalore University.