02 May,2022 03:18 PM IST | Mumbai | BrandMedia
Rony Das
Bongaigaon entrepreneur Rony Das has been hitting the right notes as a security analyst. Das is a data security researcher in India who has been accorded recognition by Google, among others.
Hailing from Bongaigaon in western Assam, Rony Das is a security researcher who runs his security startup called Axom Security, which provides security services besides enabling cybersecurity education.
A few months back, Rony Das won a bounty of USD 5000 from Google for reporting a vulnerability in their Android platform. He reported the bug in the Android Foreground Services which could be exploited by banking malwares, among others, to hack into user data. Working on the reported bug, the tech giant fixed the same, thereby protecting sensitive data of millions of Android users.
Rony comes from middle class family background. His father, Rupan Das, runs a tailor shop in Bongaigaon and his mother, Rita Das, is a home maker. His exceptional work and the hours of work he put in has changed his situation. His parents didn't know what exactly he was doing until 2014, when he went to participate for ethical hacking competition in Kolkata and took the second prize for the very first time. Things have changed since then.
In 2015, when he was a class XII student at Bongaigaon Railway HS School, Rony used his phone to find out severe security flaw in the website run by the Gauhati University. The university administration thanked Rony for his work. And there was no looking back since then.
The self-learner did his graduation in the science stream from Birjhora Mahavidyalaya college in Bongaigaon and continued his cybersecurity research.
Rony's cybersecurity bug reports have been acknowledged by the people and organizations he reported, besides being well noted by the media.
Dreaming to strengthen the cybersecurity scenario in the country, Rony founded the company Axom Security. His startup now working on research in Zero-day vulnerabilities and provide top quality cybersecurity education which will makes people job-ready as a penetration tester.
Achievements
Reported serious vulnerabilities on their website back in 2015:
Founded Zero Day vulnerability in Google's Android OS-level component letting bad threat actors access Hardware level components without letting users know a thing:
More references: https://linktr.ee/ronydas
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