Vikas Kumar is a Senior Security Consultant at NCC Group. His interests including low-level application security, containers, embedded security, and cryptography. Vikas Kumar is a Senior Security Consultant at NCC Group, an information security firm specializing in application, network, and mobile security. He joined the team February 2016. His interests including low-level application security, containers, embedded security, and cryptography. Vikas graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's in Computer Science. Prior to NCC Group, Vikas interned as a Security/Devops Engineer at RelateIQ in 2015, and as a Security Engineer at Duo Labs in 2014. While at the University of Michigan, he co-lead Michigan Hackers’ Security Team, which co-hosted 2 Capture The Flag events with Facebook. He did cryptography research with Professor Alex Halderman, focusing on applying (and optimizing) known attacks against RSA to internet wide scans of TLS and SSH configurations. He also did a basic analysis of Bluetooth Low Energy protocol security.