Danang Avan Maulana

Danang Avan Maulana (Avan) is an Adversarial Security Engineer at Punggawa Cybersecurity and an independent security researcher from Indonesia. His work spans penetration testing, vulnerability research, adversary emulation, red team operations, application security, and social engineering, with a focus on understanding how technical weaknesses and human behavior can be leveraged in real-world attack scenarios. Avan is also the founder of TegalSec, a cybersecurity community he has been building since 2018, where he contributes to security research and knowledge sharing. His work includes researching real-world attack surfaces, developing offensive security tools, and exploring practical approaches to adversarial security. His current research explores the intersection between technical exploitation and the human attack surface. He develops Pretexta, an open-source framework for structured social engineering assessments, and is the author of Hack The Human, a book exploring social engineering and human-focused attacks from an offensive security perspective.