Sameer is Vice President of Security Consulting at Spirent Communications, leading the Spirent SecurityLabs ethical hacking and security research team. Sameer is recognized a leader in cyber security, with 20 years’ of experience in penetration testing and security research. Sameer has contributed research for leading industry groups such as OWASP and CTIA, and regularly contributes on security-related topics to leading publications and outlets such as Security Week, Business Insider, ZDnet, SC Magazine and Security Boulevard. He has also spoken at cyber security conferences such as DefCon, CyberSecurity Chicago, BlockCon, MilCis, Arm Tech Con, SINET Innovation Summit and IoT Slam etc. on security trends related to the emerging web, mobile communications, IoT, Cloud, 5G and the automotive industry. Prior to Spirent, Sameer has worked for a number of leading security companies, including Trustwave-SpiderLabs and Cenzic Inc., where he led the incident response, penetration testing, vulnerability scanning and managed security testing services team.