About
Who built SkilledScan
Ahad Ansari
Cybersecurity consultant and penetration tester · Founder of SkilledScan
India
Ahad Ansari is a cybersecurity consultant and penetration tester from India, and the founder of SkilledScan. Since 2017 he has completed more than 500 security projects for businesses in over 70 countries: web application and API penetration tests, vulnerability assessments, malware cleanups, digital forensics and incident response.
Across 110 reviewed client projects he holds an average rating of 4.9 out of 5.
His clients range from single-site owners to agencies and security teams, in finance, healthcare, retail and e-commerce. He built SkilledScan to offer that testing as a product: governed scans that report only confirmed findings, each with evidence and a fix.
- security projects completed
- 500+security projects completed
- countries served
- 70+countries served
- average rating across 110 client reviews
- 4.9/5average rating across 110 client reviews
- year of the first client project
- 2017year of the first client project
Expertise
What Ahad Ansari works on
Penetration testing
- Web application penetration testing
- API security testing
- Server and network penetration testing
- Virtual machine and cloud server testing
- Security review of PHP software and React builds
- E-commerce and CMS security (Shopify, WordPress)
Vulnerability assessment
- Vulnerability scanning and reporting
- Scanning programs across many websites
- Security headers and server configuration
- Firewall testing on servers and workstations
Incident response and forensics
- Malware analysis and cleanup
- Ransomware infection analysis
- Digital forensics, including for litigation
- Compromised website recovery
- Blocklist and malicious-flag removal
- Keylogger and intrusion checks on Windows
Hardening and defense
- DDoS mitigation
- WordPress and server hardening
- Intrusion detection rules (Snort)
- Network traffic analysis (Wireshark)
- Secure remote access and VPN setup
Governance and compliance
- Security audits and audit documentation
- ISMS reporting
- Compliance assessments for GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS
- Risk assessment and data protection
Intelligence and research
- OSINT and reconnaissance
- Security research
- Responsible vulnerability disclosure
Skills
- Penetration Testing
- Web Security
- Computer Security
- Network Security
- Internet Security
- Security
- Digital Forensics
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Management
- Data Protection
- Compliance
- Website Testing
- Testing / QA
- Usability Testing
- Linux
- Windows Desktop
- VMware
- Virtual Machines
- Web Hosting
- cPanel
- Troubleshooting
- PHP
- HTML
- MySQL
- phpMyAdmin
- Database Management
- Web Development
- eCommerce
- Data Processing
- Research
Sectors
- Finance
- Healthcare
- Retail
- E-commerce
Reach
Clients in 70+ countries
Americas
- United States
- Canada
- Mexico
- Colombia
- Peru
- Chile
Europe
- United Kingdom
- Ireland
- Germany
- France
- Italy
- Spain
- Portugal
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Sweden
- Lithuania
- North Macedonia
Middle East and Africa
- United Arab Emirates
- Saudi Arabia
- Qatar
- Jordan
- Nigeria
- Tunisia
Asia-Pacific
- India
- Sri Lanka
- Singapore
- Malaysia
- Indonesia
- Thailand
- Japan
- South Korea
- Australia
Work with Ahad Ansari
For a penetration test, a security assessment or help with an incident, email him directly or connect on LinkedIn.