Roman Zaikin
Security Researcher At Check Point Software Technologies at Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolRoman Zaikin is a security researcher at Check Point Software Technologies with 11 years of hands-on experience uncovering critical vulnerabilities in major platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram, eBay, AliExpress, Microsoft and TikTok. He blends deep technical skills in reverse engineering, protocol analysis, penetration testing and low-level systems understanding with practical network and system administration experience. A seasoned speaker and educator, Roman presented at Black Hat Vegas 2019 on WhatsApp protocol decryption and has taught over 1,000 students through ITSafe, designing curricula in web and mobile security. His background includes consulting for financial institutions and government organizations, producing proof-of-concept exploits and training, while holding 15+ certifications that reflect broad, self-taught mastery. Colleagues value his out-of-the-box thinking and appetite for drilling down to the byte level to reveal subtle, high-impact security flaws.
11 years of coding experience
Practical engineer, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, 90+, Practical engineer, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, 90+ at מכללת אורט רחובות
English, עברית, רוסית
Github Skills (21)
whatsapp10
protocol-buffers9
pentesting9
penetration-testing8
injection8
testing7
security7
python7
database7
web-testing6
google-maps6
sql-injection6
sqlmap5
google5
sql5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
romanzaikin/BurpExtension-WhatsApp-Decryption-CheckPoint
Aug 2018 - Oct 2019
This tool was created during our research at Checkpoint Software Technologies on Whatsapp Protocol (This repository will be updated after BlackHat 2019)
Contributions:29 commits, 7 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 2 months
burpsuite-extenderprotocol-bufferswhatsapp
romanzaikin/OllyDbg-v1.10-With-Best-Plugins-And-Immunity-Debugger-theme-
Sep 2016 - Apr 2021
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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