Paul Rudenko

Paul Rudenko is a security researcher and the person behind MySecScan's external scanning methodology. He works on how an attacker's view of a website — its TLS configuration, HTTP response headers, DNS and email authentication, exposed files and open services — can be measured passively and turned into clear, prioritised fixes.

His focus is the practical end of web security: the configuration-level defences that most sites can deploy in an afternoon but frequently miss, and the small set of issues that are actually being exploited in the wild rather than the long tail of theoretical findings.

He writes the MySecScan guides to be the explanation he wishes existed when first hardening a production site — accurate, vendor-neutral, and grounded in the relevant RFCs and the OWASP Secure Headers Project rather than copied checklists.