
“Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing” is a hardcover academic volume that explores the principles, threats, and defensive strategies of modern cybersecurity, the work of Shashank Vaidya. Explanations move from established groundwork to contemporary questions, with terminology introduced as it is needed. Aimed at cybersecurity students, IT professionals, and researchers, it is published by Khushbu Publications, Bengaluru, India under its Oxford Academic Publications imprint, and released in 2026.