IVAN PISKUNOV

DevSecOps expert, Security Evangelist, ex-Cloud researcher, InfoSec blogger, Speaker, University lector, Book's author, former member of CTF-team Cr@ZY Geek$

Ivan Piskunov (born March 14, 1988, Irkutsk, Russia) is a Russian and international expert in cybersecurity, ethical hacker, IT blogger, author, lecturer at several Russian universities, and distinguished guest at several American colleges. He has made a significant contribution to the Russian cyber community and the development of the information security industry in Russia in the 2010s. Since 2016, he has been a regular contributor to Hacker e-magazine [3]. In the same year, he launched his personal blog on the Blogger platform [1], where he actively developed the topic of information security issues. His first publications on information security began to appear in 2014 on the Anti-Malware portal [5]. In 2018, he launched his own Telegram channel, "White2Hack," dedicated to information security issues for a wide range of people [3].

After working for several years at various software development companies, he began to work closely with Kubernetes (K8s) and actively immerse himself in DevOps security issues, resulting in the publication of his book "Kubernetes security. Guide for beginners from zero to hero" [2] in mid-2021, written entirely in English. At the same time, he launched another author's blog aimed at international community on Medium [4], and then on Dev.to [9] and Security Exchange [10]. Under Ivan's guidance, several students successfully defended their theses at the Irkutsk branch of Moscow State Linguistic University (2014) and Moscow Polytechnic University (2020).

Certificates and Professional Communities

• 2012: VipNet 3.2 Certified Administrator

• 2013: Member of ex-Russian Information Systems Security Professional Association (RISSPA)

• 2013: Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)

• 2013: GNU\Linux Administrator (equal level by LPIC-1)

• 2014: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

• 2015: ex-Member of Ubunty Community (LinkdIn society)

• 2015: Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

• 2021: Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer

• 2021: AWS Certified Security (SCS-C01)

• 2024: Member of International Association entrepreneurs and executives by Krokit Club (for current entrepreneurs, CEOs and top managers)

• 2024: Member of ReSpot (go-to online platform for seamless relocation, travel, and services in new countries)

Awards and Achievements

• 2009/2010: Member of the CTF team Cr@zY geek$, which took second and first place in the task-based and tack-defense competition

• 2013/2014: Lead of the "IT Planet" national students Olympiad preparation program among Russian universities on base BSU

• 2016: PHDays PHDays VII, speaker\workshop author of the topic "Modern technologies and tools for analyzing malicious software"

• 2017: ZeroNight, sole winner team of the CarPWN competition (hacking Tesla car electronics)

• 2017: Kaspersky CrackMe Challenge — 3rd place (reverse engineering of a sample malicious code)

• 2017: ZeroNight, winner of the "Safe Hacking" by Mail*Ru competition as part of a team (opening an analog safe lock without using brute force tools)

• 2016–2017: Hacker e-magazine, author of the only series of articles at that time in the Russian-language segment of the Internet on the topic of "Reverse Engineering of Malicious Software for newbies"

• 2017/2018 academic year: winner in the "Best Lector" category, Department of Information Security, Moscow Polytechnic University ("IT World Skills Russia 2017" National University Olympiad)

• 2018: Hacker e-magazine, the first series of articles in the Russian-language segment of the Internet on Digital Forensics and cCybercrime Investigation

• 2018–2019: Member of the expert council and editorial board of the Reglament publishing house [16], which publishes several specialized magazines for the banking sector, where he oversees the publication of articles on financial technology security issues

• 2017: Creation of an educational offline course for children, "Ethical Hacking for Kids," based on the "Coddy School" programming school in Moscow, a training program that was unparalleled in Russia at the time of its launch

• 2018: Launch of our own e-learning platform for rebuild author's course "Ethical Hacking for Kids," which has trained about 1,000 people aged 12 to 17 during its existence

• 2017–2019: Informal supervisor of pre-diploma internships and diploma projects, consultant to dozens of students from various Russian universities studying information security

• 2021: Author of the English-language book "Kubernetes Security: Guide for Beginners from Zero to Hero", available on Amazon Kindle dn Gumroad platform

• 2018–2021: Author of several training courses, lecturer at commercial educational institutions like as Academy IT, HackerU, Skillbox, NTC, OTUS

• 2022: Immigration to Europe as an expat, leadership cybersecurity operations for an international financial exchange project

• 2023: Publication of a brochure "Иван Пискунов | (Само)обучение. Исследования, факты и лучшие практики" (Russian language)

• 2024: Release of the English version of the author's brochure "Ivan Piskunov | (Self-)learning. Research, facts, and best practices "

• 2025: Launch of analytical blogs on several platforms: SubStack (), VK (), X (), on topics not directly related to cybersecurity