OWASP 2025 Global AppSec EU

Abhay Bhargav is the Founder of the Chief Research Officer of AppSecEngineer, an elite, hands-on online training platform and we45 a specialized AppSec Company. Abhay started his career as a breaker of apps, in pentesting and red-teaming, but today is more involved in scaling AppSec with Cloud-Native Security and DevSecOps He has created some pioneering works in the area of DevSecOps and AppSec Automation, including the world’s first hands-on training program on DevSecOps, focused on Application Security Automation. In addition to this, Abhay is active in his research of new technologies and their impact on Application Security, specifically Cloud-Native Security. In addition, Abhay has contributed to pioneering work in the Vulnerability Management space, being the architect of a leading Vulnerability Management and Correlation Product, Orchestron. Abhay is also committed to Open-Source and has developed the first-ever Threat Modeling solution at the crossroads of Agile and DevSecOps, called ThreatPlaybook. Abhay is a speaker and trainer at major industry events including DEF CON, BlackHat, OWASP AppSecUSA, EU and AppSecCali. His training programs have been sold-out events at conferences like AppSecUSA, EU, AppSecDay Melbourne, CodeBlue (Japan), BlackHat and so on. He's authored two international publications on Java Security and PCI Compliance as well.