Kanoon Pajoheshgarane Daneshe Amneiat (KAPDA, Persian: کانون پژوهشگران دانش امنیت) meaning Security Science Researchers' Institute is an Iran-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 developers lacked in providing. Their reason behind working on web applications is that the 75% of servers 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 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 browsers and vendors.
Kapda has been inactive since 01/01/2007.