KAPDA
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Kanoon Pajoheshgarane Daneshe Amneiat (KAPDA, Persian: کانون پژوهشگران دانش امنیت) meaning Security Science Researchers' Institute is an Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

-based company established in 2002 by Pedram Hayati and Shayan Najd. It provides continuous security protocols to computer systems and to software applications. It is a security analyzer team that is in charge of providing the security protocols in order to bring security to the software users where the developer
Software developer
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s lacked in providing. Their reason behind working on web application
Web application
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s is that the 75% of server
Server (computing)
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s attack enter through it.

The KAPDA company has two team of workers, the coordinators and the researchers. The researchers work under the supervision of coordinators who overview what is being done in security operations. The group that composes the researchers involve amateur and professional hackers
Hacker (computer security)
In computer security and everyday language, a hacker is someone who breaks into computers and computer networks. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, including profit, protest, or because of the challenge...

 or experts in computer system security. The company The Persian Hacker Security Team is an example of a company supported by the Research Institute. They also undertake activities like assessing the security of web browser
Web browser
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s and vendors.

Kapda has been inactive since 01/01/2007.
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