Corey Ball is an offensive security consultant who breaks APIs, agentic systems, cloud, and the networks that connect them, and builds application security tests at scale. He authored "Hacking APIs" (No Starch Press) and founded APIsec University, a free educational platform that has trained more than 150,000 students in application security. He has more than 15 years in IT and cybersecurity across aerospace, agribusiness, energy, financial technology, government services, and healthcare, with more than a 1,000 penetration tests behind him. He holds a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy from Sacramento State University, along with the OSCP, CCISO, CISSP, and several other industry certifications.