Mohammad Espargham
Kansas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMohammad Espargham is a cybersecurity leader and OWASP Iran Chapter head with over 10 years of hands-on and managerial experience in web and IoT security. He created and contributes to notable OWASP tools like VBScan, Joomscan, and Nettacker, enhancing vulnerability detection and WAF bypass techniques for widely used platforms such as Joomla. His background spans roles as CISO, security researcher, and instructor at top Iranian institutions, blending practical penetration-testing automation with academic research. Now based in Kansas, he continues to advance fuzzing and automated vulnerability discovery while mentoring the next generation of security practitioners. An atypical strength is his dual focus on building community-driven open-source scanners and translating that work into measurable defensive improvements for organizations.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Mohammad Bagher University
English, Persian
Github Skills (9)
it-security10
scanner10
exploit10
scanning10
joomla10
vulnerability-scanners10
web-application-security10
security10
php9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OWASP/joomscan
Sep 2016 - Oct 2019
OWASP Joomla Vulnerability Scanner Project https://www.secologist.com/
Role in this project:
Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:6 releases, 41 commits, 14 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mohammad primarily contributed to the OWASP Joomla! Vulnerability Scanner by adding and modifying modules related to vulnerability detection. They focused on identifying and mitigating security issues, particularly those related to Joomla! CMS. The commits show the user adding detection signatures for various types of vulnerabilities and updating the scanner's database and functionality. The user also worked on improving the scanner's ability to detect and bypass web application firewalls.
joomlaowaspvulnerability-scannersjoomla-cmsjoomscan
rezasp/Trash
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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