About me

“I’m satisfied with nothing less than the very best in everything I do, and I continue to raise the bar because excellence is always ahead”.

Serhii A.Nesterenko

Can you remember meeting an expert who you could trust and rely on?

Meet Serhii A. Nesterenko, established expert in various cybersecurity domains: Red teaming, Penetration Testing, OSINT and Counter Social Engineering. Serhii is a top-qualified Cybersecurity Consultant and as well a passionate cybersecurity educator with extensive work experience and impressive professional background. Serhii taught more than 15 thousands of students around the world, among them security professionals, penetration testers, law enforcement, intelligence and counterterrorism specialists. His advise and hands-on skills have helped thousands of people to keep their assets safe from cybercriminals. He continues sharing his wide knowledge to make this world safe and secure.

Serhii worked for top world companies providing cybersecurity services for such world industry leaders as Deutsche Bank and Comodo Cybersecurity. He specializes in the hardest cybersecurity-related industry – protecting financial institutions. His cybersecurity courses are released by such authoritative companies as Packt, Udemy and Station X.

Students especially love Serhii for his extraordinary ability to explain very complicated things in an easy, fun and understandable ways in the shortest time possible. It happens because Serhii presents the material in accordance with the cut-of-the-edge brain science that allows students to sink in the most complicated information with easiness – and remember it for long.

Beside cybersecurity knowledge, Serhii has many years of unique experience in psychological security, people profiling, and continue elaborating on the cyber psychology topics. He is one of a few experts in social engineering threats who provided a full-pledged course on this hot topic (“The Dark Art of Social Engineering and HUMINT. Find out how spies and hackers steal your secrets – and how to stop them”) that goes to the roots of the problem to provide a bulletproof defense from the most cunning social engineering attacks. This is the only course that discovers connection between methods of Social Engineers and HUMINT techniques used by spies to steal secret information.

His bestselling course “Cybersecurity Attacks (Red Team Activity)” became the gateway to profession of pentester for many people around the world, bringing a new wave of employees to the industry.

His course “The Secrets of OSINT. Become James Bond of the Internet and find out everything about anyone” considered as one of the most popular in this domain and recommended by such top companies as Nasdaq, Volkswagen, Box, NetApp, Evenbright. Many students of the course now use the gained skills and knowledge in their work making the cyberspace more secure and safer place.

Mass media about Serhii Nesterenko:

 

«Serhii Nesterenko is a cybersecurity consultant and penetration tester with rich experience in the information security field. He has consulted for international business companies, military staff, NGOs, politicians, members of Parliament, law enforcement, and other VIPs on security issues. His wide knowledge of information technologies and human psychology enables him to elaborate effective technologies to prevent and overcome even the most cunning cyberattacks… Serhii is also the author of the video course Cybersecurity Attacks (Red Team Activity) that was released by Packt Publishing in February. He is also well-known for his publications and lectures on cybersecurity, anti-fraud, and counter-cyberespionage issues».

«Social engineering attacks: how to defend against them and how to fight back», «Techgenix», May 30, 2018