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This teenager is already a CEO

From Sandeep Bhaskar DH News Service Ranchi:

At a ripe age of 18, Vineet Kumar, a standard XII student of Army school at Ranchi, is the chief executive officer (CEO) of National Anti-hacking Group (NAG).

This student has already has addressed gatherings at Vellore Institute of Technology and other famous institutions. He also has many offers of work on cyber security waiting for him. And now at a ripe age of 18, he is the chief executive officer (CEO) of National Anti-hacking Group (NAG).

White Hat Vineet Kumar, a standard XII student of Army school at Ranchi, is fast becoming a favourite in the lecture circuits due to his multi-faceted talents.

Proudly displaying a hoard of certificates and letters of appreciation, Vineet says that National Anti-hacking Group (NAG) is a community of ethical hackers to protect country from cyber attack.

“We are currently operating with 4,000-odd ethical hackers and security experts in India. A Black Hat hacker can readily inflict damage to all data, information in the system, if any vulnerability was found in any site. The Black Hat could also mail various attacks like wave application attacks, e-mail forging, if he gets any open port in the site. We suggest how to protect the network of the system. But then before going for the penetration in any site, we do seek a formal permission from the authorities concerned,” said CEO of NAG, a non-profitable organisation registered under Jharkhand government.

A member of Global Ethical Hackers’ Association (GEHA) himself, Vineet has also earned rich accolades for delivering lectures on cyber security in some institutes like Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), MKCL Finishing Schools), Colleges of Military Engineering, Pune.

and Officers of Indian Army among others in recent past.

“Security is what the Indian army requires. We invited Vineet last year in August after we got to know about him. His presentation was indeed very informative and value-based,” said an army officer of Dipatoli Cantonment at Ranchi.

Vineet is also in possession of appreciation letter from the commanding officer Col J Hota of Dipatoli Cantonment besides several degrees namely Novel Certified Linux Professional, Microsoft Certified system engineers, administration, database administrator, solution developer, and Cisco Certified Network Administrator with specialisation in Ethical Hacker-cum- internet security consultant and cyber forensic expertise.

Vineet Kumar also has special offer from the country’s reputed institutes. “While Maharastra Institute of Technology (MIT), Aurangabad has offered me free education at its institute, other institutes like Pune- based management school ISCOM, Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani and MIT, Aurangabad have invited me to develop internet security centres and forensic labs,” Vineet claimed.