About Session

When asked about security, website owners commonly reply with “Why would anyone hack me? I’m just a small business owner!”. In this interactive session, we would deconstruct how hackers hack WordPress sites, and what you can do to prevent it.

You’ll get to see the hacker side of things, and get answers to:
1) What would a hacker gain by hacking your WordPress website?
2) Security testing methodology
3) Tools used to exploit your site
4) Commonly vulnerable areas which are exploited
5) Performing the hack & Retaining access
6) Easy to implement steps which will super secure your WordPress site and protect it from getting hacked

Speaker Information

Ananda Krishna is the co-founder & CTO of Astra Security, a SaaS suite that secures businesses from cyber threats. Now a security architect & full-stack developer, Ananda wrote his first Remote administration tool (RAT) at the age of 14.

He has been acknowledged by Indian Navy, Microsoft, United Airlines etc. for finding critical security vulnerabilities in their systems. Winner of the Best Security Product at Global Conference on Cyberspace 2017 (awarded by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India) & French Tech Ticket, Paris (awarded by François Hollande, Former President of France).

After helping some top businesses around the globe secure their websites & apps, realized a gap in security solutions being used. Led to Astra, with an aim to make security super simple for business owners. Astra is a Techstars alumni from the Berlin cohort, which puts the company in the likes of DigitalOcean, Sendgrid, Uber etc.

At Astra he’s building an intelligent security ecosystem – web application firewall (WAF), malware detection & analysis, large scale SaaS applications, APIs & more.