Abhishek Singh

CEO MyGov

President & CEO NeGD

MD & CEO Digital India Corporation (DIC) at Govt of India

Tulika Pandey

Director Cyber Security

Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology

Govt of India

An electronics & Communication(s) Engineer by Profession and currently holds the position of Director (Cyber Security) with the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.

29 year professional experience of - Research & Development, Project Evolution & Management and Policy Formulation (National & International), Team Leadership of National Programmes in the area of Information & Communication Technologies. Also has a Diploma in Internet Governance (University of Malta) & PG Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights Law, ILI, New Delhi

Skillset
    ● Technical Reports and Research Papers
    ● Country Position Papers and Policy formulation

Society Member of Engineering, Research, Standards, Technical Committees
    ● IEEE Women in Engineering Society
    ● Institution of Engineer & Telecommunication Engineer (IETE)
    ● Standards for Telecom Equipments of the Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC, Dept. of Telecommunications, Govt. of India
    ● International Advisory Board of the International Conference on “COMmunication System & NETworkS (COMSNETS)”.
    ● United Nation’s ‘Internet Governance Forum’ and was instrumental in establishing the Indian Chapter of Internet Governance Forum (IIGF)
    ● Governmental Advisory Committee of ‘Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’.

Sunil Varkey

Vice President - Global Financial Services

Forescout Technologies Inc.

Sunil Varkey has over 26 years of Security leadership experience, with large global corporates in banking, telecoms, ITES, software and manufacturing.

Sunil is Forescout CTO for its EMEA & APJ, prior to this he led Cyber Security Assessment and Testing for HSBC, he also worked with Symantec as CTO and Strategist, Wipro as Global CISO and Fellow, as Head of Security and Privacy at Idea Cellular, and in GE, Barclays and SABB.

Academically, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics engineering with an MBA. He is also CISSP, CIPP/US, GSNA, CISA, CGEIT, CRISC, SCF, ABCP, ITIL- V2 manager and Six Sigma GB certified.

He has participated in various advisory forums globally, and published and presented various articles sessions related to the information assurance domain. Multiple patent applications of him, on Information security are currently in consideration with patent offices.

Dr. Mahesh Kalyanaraman

Associate Vice President, Risk & Compliance

HCL Technologies Limited

Senior Information Security Professional with over 25 years of versatile experience in Information Security Management, Security Architecture, Governance, Risk and Compliance.


PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• • CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional


• • CISA – Certified Information Systems Auditor


• • CISM – Certified Information Systems Manager


• • CCSK – Cloud Computing Security Knowledge


• • CLIP BS 10012 – Certified Lead Implementer for BS 10012


• • ITIL Foundation Ver. 3.0


• • CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate


• • CCSA – Certified Checkpoint Security Administrator (Checkpoint 2000)


• • ISSP – Information Systems Security Professional from University of Queensland


• • BS 7799 certified Lead Auditor


• • SANS Course on Auditing Networks, Perimeters and Systems (Audit 507)


• • SANS Course on Advanced Computer Forensics and Incidence Response (FOR 508)


• • Data Security Council of India certified Lead Assessor in Privacy


• • ACIArb - Associate level course on Arbitration (Alternate Dispute Resolution) conducted jointly by Nani Palkhivala Foundation and CIArb –


• • Certified Corporate Director from Institute of Directors

• • Working as Director, Corporate Security in Cognizant Technology Solutions


• • Worked in Tata Communications Limited, HCL Technologies, CSC, Shaw Wallace & Co Ltd etc

• • Associated with University of Madras as visiting faculty and member of their Advisory Committee for their M.Sc – Cyber Forensics and Information Security course


• • Invited by Interpol for their Underground Economy Conference 2013 and represented Tata Communications in their headquarters at Lyon, France in September 2013


• • Invited by Kerala Police to present a paper on “Insight to Ransomware” in CoCoN 2013 – An Global Information Security Conference in September 2013


• • Represented India in the ISO / IEC SC 27 conference held in Hong Kong in April 2014.
  
  • o Reviewed the new standards on Cloud Security ISO 27017, ISO 27005, ISO 27036, ISO 27018
  
  
  • o Nominated as Co – Editor for re-development of ISO 27008 (Technical Guidelines for Auditors on Information Security)
  
  
  
  

Burgess Cooper

Partner – Deputy Cyber Leader

Consulting Services

Ernst & Young LLP 

Amb. Dunston Pereira

Chief Operating Officer

The Royal Office of H. H Sheikh 

Ahmed Bin Faisal Al Qassimi

Mr Dunston, COO to the private office of HH Shiekh Ahmed Bin Faisal Al Qassimi is a well-versed and versatile personality who was in corporate leadership roles with multinationals for almost 30 years.

With vast experience in business excellence, he became an entrepreneur at the age of 46 and had been on a successful journey since then. He received the national award for business excellence in 2018 and the state award in 2019

With his vast expertise in a global relationship, he has taken up this challenging assignment with the private office to make it one of the most acclaimed and accepted business organization in the world

He is also a good humanitarian who is serving as an ambassador to about 10 NGO organizations across the world.

Dr. Elisa Costante

VP of Research and Head

Forescout Research Labs

Forescout Technologies

Elisa Costante holds a PhD in Cyber Security. As head of Forescout Research Labs, she drives the execution of cyber-security research aiming at understanding the evolution of the threat landscape and at identifying mitigation techniques.

Michael Ferguson

CTO, APAC

Netskope

Michael ‘Fergo’ Ferguson is a Cloud Security Evangelist and Senior Sales Engineer at Netskope. He is a highly customer-focused security professional, having worked in the cyber security industry for over 10 years across the Asia Pacific Region. Michael has been CISSP certified for over 6 years, speaking at various industry events (e.g. Gartner, AISA), whilst also working on large Data Loss Prevention and Cloud Security projects with some of Australia's most recognizable organizations such as Westpac Bank, CCA and Macquarie Bank. Michael has extensive web, email and cloud security experience, specializing in running DLP and Insider Threat programs. Michael is English by birth but migrated to Sydney, Australia nine years ago.

J Sam Daniel Stalin

Senior Television Journalist and News Anchor

J Sam Daniel Stalin, an award winning senior television journalist and news anchor is a household name in India and the diaspora, for credible, unbiased and ethical television news reporting.

A seasoned Television Journalist with proven leadership and twenty one years of reporting experience across seven countries with the premier NDTV 24 X 7 (New Delhi Television Ltd), presently heading the bureau in Chennai. Also report widely on NDTV's digital and new media platform. http://www.ndtv.com/topic/sam-daniel

Apar Gupta

Executive Director

Internet Freedom Foundation

Apar is a lawyer and the Executive Director of the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF). The IFF is an Indian digital liberties organisation that seeks to ensure that technology respects fundamental rights.

Apar completed his post-graduate studies from the Columbia University School of Law and have practised for more than a decade. After graduation, he worked as a commercial litigator in top law firms such as Karanjawala & Co. and was a partner at Advani & Co. During this period he represented a diverse set of clients from India's top corporate groups, high net worth individuals and public sector units, even being retained as a counsel for the government of India in the High Court of Delhi. Apar continues to write op-eds and journal articles for Indian Express, The Hindu, IIC Quarterly and Seminar etc. and have written a book on the I.T. Act, 2000 published by LexisNexis.

From 2015, he has have been working extensively on public interest issues which include strategic litigation and organisation of campaigns and collectives. In courts, Apar's work as a lawyer includes key digital rights cases on privacy and censorship. He served as a counsel in key constitutional challenges on Section 66A, the Right to Privacy and Aadhaar, the Kashmir Internet Shutdown case representing public interest litigants. Beyond court work he has worked extensively with activists to set up digital campaigns such as those on Net Neutrality (SaveTheInternet.in), fight against defamation laws (SpeechBill.in) and safeguard privacy (SaveOurPrivacy.in). Apar is committed to advancing values of the Constitution of India in a digital, technology mediated society.

In 2020 he was inducted as an Ashoka Fellow for his work at IFF.

Bikash Barai

Co-founder

FireCompass

George Eapen

Group Chief Information Officer

Petrofac

George Eapen is currently the Group CIO for Petrofac (FTSE 250), an international provider of energy services, with around 11,500 employees supporting international and national oil, gas and renewable energy companies to unlock more value in key geographies including, Malaysia, India, Middle East, Russia and the CIS, the UK and the Americas. In his current role, George and his team manages IT & Digital strategy for the Company. George also serves on the Global Board of Advisors for IBM Security.

George was previously Chief Information Security Officer for GE Global Regions/ GE International. In that role, George was responsible for defining Cyber Security strategy for Enterprise IT & OT for all the GE regions outside of US which accounted for $75B revenue for the Company. George has 15 years of global experience (USA, India, Singapore, Italy, China & Middle East) with multiple businesses (Healthcare, Aviation, Oil & Gas,) in diverse IT domains (Software development, Quality, Auditing, Infrastructure, Operations & Cyber Security).

George is a well-known thought leader in the field of Cyber having presented extensively on the topic at over 30 conferences worldwide, including key notes at Microsoft Ignite 2019, IBM Think 2020 and GISEC. George also serves as a Non-Executive Board member for many Cyber Organisations and committees. George is a recipient of multiple awards globally and was also featured in Intelligent CIO, Security Middle East and Cyber Sentinels magazine.

George holds an Electrical Engineering degree from MG University, an MBA from Symbiosis, India and an Executive MBA from MIT Sloan.

John Durcan

Senior Digital

Transformation Specialist

Enterprise Ireland

Ramses Gallego

International Chief Technology-

Officer

CyberRes

Ryan Sherstobitoff

Vice President

Threat Research & Intelligence

SecurityScorecard

Prashant Choudhary

Partner

Cybersecurity EY

Prashant is currently Partner with EY. He is focussed on providing Cybersecurity services to Global Financial Services clients in India & Middle East region. Prashant brings 20 years of deep and proven expertise in his chosen field of Cybersecurity in Financial Services Industry. Prashant leverages his strength & passion to build & scale up world class delivery capability by leveraging IP, collaboration ecosystem (internal & Alliances) & Centre of Excellence (COEs).

He delivers wide range of Cybersecurity solutions to his clients including Cybersecurity Strategy & Transformation, Identity & Access Management, Operations & Technology Resilience, Third Party Risk Mgmt, Privacy, Digital Cyber, IT Control Assurance, Regulatory Compliance, Application Security, Ethical Hacking/ Red Teaming, Cyber Customer journey, Cyber Awareness, Security Ops Centre (SOC), Threat Hunting & Incident Response, etc.

Prior to joining EY, Prashant served Deutsche Bank for a decade in various Global & Regional leadership roles; including Head of Risk for Technology & Operations, Global Head of Resilience & Global Head of Corporate Risk for its Ops & Tech entity.

Jonathan Rouse

Detective Inspector - ARGOS

Child Abuse & Sexual Crime Group

State crime command, Queensland Police Service, Australia; POLCYB DIRECTOR

Cecilia WALLIN

Former Criminal Intelligence Officer

Specialist advisor child sexual exploitation material

INTERPOL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN

Cecilia WALLIN, Criminal Intelligence Officer at INTERPOL Crimes against Children, is the team leader for the team based in the Asian region. Cecilia has 12 years’ experience in the investigation of child sexual exploitation at a local, national and international level. She joined the Swedish Police Authority in 2005 after graduating from Uppsala University in Sweden with a Degree in Master of Laws. Cecilia has investigated numerous child sexual abuse cases, interviewing offenders and victims and analysing material. While stationed at the Cyber Crime Unit, National Operations Department in Stockholm, Sweden, she was also the coordinator and instructor for the National Training for investigations and victim identification. She is a part of an International network of experts focusing efforts to identify the sexually abused children depicted in images and videos located across the world and is also an administrator of the International Child Sexual Exploitation database (ICSE) and instructor of INTERPOL’s trainings.

Sridhar Govardhan

Industry expert, Mentor,

Faculty in

Specialized Training Institutes and University

I have overall of 21 years in business-critical domain of cyber defence, data protection and regulatory compliance and extensive hands-on knowledge of all leading information security technology.
• Cyber Incident Response
• SIEM Platform
• Product Security
• Risk Management
• Security Process Governance
• Enterprise Security Architecture
• IT Security & Infrastructure Management
• Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity Planning
• Security Framework
• Security Compliance
• Strategy Planning
• Information Security Awareness
• Security Solutioning
• Technology & Process Audits
• Cyber Defence
• Vulnerability Management
• Information Privacy
I have acquired 11 industry-recognized certifications in the domains of IT, Information Security, Cyber Security Framework and Secure Enterprise Architecture (CFE, CISA, CISM, SABSA, CDPSE).
I have worked as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of large IT/ITES organization in my previous job and currently Head of Information Security in large Internet technology company. I hold a bachelor’s degree in engineering and MTech from BITS Pilani. I have three patents (pending) in Cognitive Security. Sridhar has co-authored a book on “Insider Threat” published by Forbes Asia and DSCI. I hold numerous awards and accolades from the industry bodies and consortiums.
I am currently associated as industry expert, mentor and faculty in specialized training institutes and university, I am involved from course design, board of studies and being faculty and mentoring students.

William Hagestad II, LTCOL, USMC Retired

A Simple Author

Red Dragon 1949

Lieutenant Colonel, USMC (Retired) Bill Hagestad a field experienced international cyber warfare officer. Specializing in both defensive & offensive cyber operations. He teaches cyber intelligence & protecting critical infrastructure at one of the National Security Agencies’ Cyber Centers of Excellence

He is an internationally registered white hat hacker as well as an internationally recognized & respected authority on the People’s Republic of China’s use of computer and information network systems as a weapon. He speaks internationally on the subject of China’s hegemony in the information age.

In 2012, Bill’s first book “21stCentury Chinese Cyber Warfare” debuted. In 2013 he published another seminal work about the People’s Republic of China’s Cyber Activities “Operation Middle Kingdom: China's Use of Computers & Networks as a Weapon System”. In 2014, Bill has also published both “Chinese Information Warfare Doctrine Development 1994 – 2014”; and, “China's Plans for Winning Information Confrontation: Important Chinese Information Warfare Articles - Information Confrontation”.

In August 2015, Bill published “Chinese Cyber Crime” a view into the Chinese hacking underworld and a 2nd edition in February 2016. Lieutenant Colonel Hagestad provides current cyber threat assessments to international defense, intelligence and law enforcement entities. He speaks both domestically and internationally on strategic information security threats Chinese Cyber Threat. In 2020 the 2nd edition of China’s Use of Computer Systems as a Strategic Weapon was published.

Bill’s education includes a Bachelor of Arts in Mandarin Chinese, with minor emphasis in Classical Chinese and Modern Japanese, University of Minnesota. He earned a Master of Science in Military Strategy from the US Marine Corps Command & Staff College in 2002. He holds a Master of Science in Security Technologies from the College of Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota and a Master of Science in the Management of Technology from the Technological Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota.

Bill is also the author of “21st Century Chinese Cyber Warfare”, ISBN 978-1849283342 published in 2012, and 2013: “Operation Middle Kingdom: China's Use of Computers & Networks as a Weapon System ISBN: 978-1482577105 and Chinese Cyber Crime 2016, 2nd edition ISBN: 978-1523816552

Daniel Ehrenreich

Industrial Cyber Security Consultat

Secure communications and Control Experts

Daniel Ehrenreich, BSc. is a consultant and lecturer acting at Secure Communications and Control Experts, periodically lecturing at industry conferences cyber defense for industrial control systems; Daniel has over 30 years’ experience with ICS systems for: electricity, water, gas and power plants as part of his activities at Tadiran, Motorola, Siemens and Waterfall Security. Reselected 6th time as the Chairman for ICS Cybersec 2021 taking place on 27-10-2021 in Israel.

Zoe Braiterman

Angel Redoble

Chairman and Founding President,

Philippine Inst. of Cyber Security Professionals

Chairman, MVP Group Cyber Security Council

Mr. Angel Redoble is a First Vice President and the Chief Information Security Officer of PLDT Group, Smart Communications and ePLDT Group and formerly a Senior consultant of Indra Sistemas leading cybersecurity projects in Spain. He is currently the Chairman and Founding President of the Philippine Institute of Cyber Security Professionals and The Chairman of the MVP Group Cyber Security Council and currently an Adjunct faculty and course director on Cybersecurity Executive Course at the Asian Institute of Management. Mr. Redoble is the former Chairman of the PNP Anti Cybercrime Group National Advisory Council. An alumnus of the National Defense College of the Philippines, where he is also a regular lecturer on the topics Cyber Security and Cyber Warfare. On an international level, Mr. Redoble accomplished the Cyber Warfare: Weaponry and Strategies of Digital Conflict program from the Technolytics Institute in the USA, Completed and passed the online course International Cyber Conflict authorized by the New York State University and completed the Master en Gestion y Direccion de Seguridad de la Informacion in Madrid, Spain. Backed by his rich cyber security expertise and experience, Mr. Redoble received the 2013 Asia Pacific Information Security Leadership Award from an international organization ISC2. Angel also received the 2013 and 2016 Awards from the Philippine National Police Anti Cybercrime Group for his contributions in Anti-Cyber Crime campaign. He completed and passed the online program Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age from Harvard University with a final weighted mean of grades of 98.8%, He is also an alumnus of Harvard Kennedy School on “Executives in National and International Security”. Angel recently completed and passed the Cyber Security for Business Leaders Program at SAID Business School University of Oxford.

Maninder Singh

Chairman

National Council on Skill Development & Entrepreneurship

ASSOCHAM

A young enthusiastic scholar, visionary leader, dynamic entrepreneur and a social reformist with desire to develop the nation through various initiatives and endeavors in Renewable Energy, Power, Ayurveda, Technology, Education, Skill Development & Social Work.

A young enthusiastic scholar, visionary leader, dynamic entrepreneur and a social reformist with desire to develop the nation through various initiatives and endeavors in Renewable Energy, Power, Ayurveda, Technology, Education, Skill Development & Social Work.

Recently, his passion and well-orchestrated efforts has given him the esteemed position of Chairman, National Council on Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in ASSOCHAM as a result of his immense and selfless hardwork for society. His works reflects in his strategies to solve social issues, and play crucial role as part of the solution. He is also an Advisor to international data management company Aiisma Inc.

Education and training come as passion to this man having set up several organizations across the nation & skilled more than 14000+ students and 600+ professionals across India & abroad. Former Hon’ble Education Minister (GOI) Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju released his book “Comprehensive Career Guide”, which is reflection of his in-depth research on over 140+ career options to help the student fraternity

He has raised businesses through Innovation and PR and has a history of turning around projects to make them profitable. He has advised number of organizations to successfully launch and run operations in India. He is also the Secretary of Bal Bharti Academy (NGO) where under his able leadership they have provided skill development to more than 15000 people in last 5 years; Founder – The Concern, Advisor to Economic Times (Event) and Advisor to Paralympic Golf Association of Delhi and Citizen Experience Foundation of India along with being on board of more than 15 organizations.

He is one of the Core Group Members of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Brigade & is a proud follower and disciple of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Ji.

A visionary who holds the vision that makes a world with knowledge at its grass root. As he states in his own words, “the vision is for the world where humanity belongs to genius”. With the mission to build a society for mankind where each and every human being can write his own success story, he is set forth to meet all the challenges & indefatigable pave the way for new developments for the youth of the nation.

He is truly a discerning professional in the field of management and a widely respected transformational leader. He has been a voracious speaker disseminating his ideas and knowledge in various conferences around the globe. He is continuing his work towards betterment of society in all his approach and ethically to fulfill his vision of skilled and adroit India.

• From 2013-15, he has worked extensively in Waste Heat Recovery sector which was involved in increasing efficiency of existing plants and to obtain value out of waste exhaust and bi-products.


• In 2015, he successfully commissioned Biomass to Pellet Demo Plant in Panipat. He also launched the first Hydro-Kinetic Turbine in the country where power is drawn from running water at Chilla canal, Uttarakhand.


• From 2016-17, he has worked on carbonization of Biomass and converting it to Bio-Coal and also worked closely with NTPC to implement the projects.


• He has been extensively working in the field of waste to energy since last 5 years and carries a rich knowledge and experience in the sector with in depth knowledge on customization and adaptability as per local requirements to bring commercial as well as technological strengths to increase the efficiency of the project to desired levels.


• He is also part of the government committee of crop burning solutions of Ministry of Agriculture of Government of India.


• He has been invited by many bodies/organizations across the country to throw light and insights on waste management process which have been duly appreciated by industry leaders and experts.

Illyas Kooliyankal

Senior Vice President & Group CISO

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB)

Abu Dhabi, UAE

Biju K

CISO

Federal Bank

Biju K is a seasoned security professional and a leader in the security technology community. Having previously served as the CISO at Federal Bank and presently heading its Operational Risk Management Division, he has vast experience in aiding financial institutions strengthen their security technology.

An alumnus of Madurai Kamaraj University, he has vast experience and expertise in multiple operational areas including banking, customer relations and risk management. In his various roles at Federal Bank, he has pushed for new technologies for strengthening the backbone of the security infrastructure.

Dinesh O Bareja

Cyber Security Specialist & V-CISO

Ajit Hatti

Founder

PureID Labs

Ajit is a serial inventor and innovator. He has been developing enterprise class security products over a decade and a half. Ajit regularly presents his research & tools at conferences like BlackHat, C0C0N and DEF CON. He is also the co-founder of Null - Open Security Community & the founder of Blockchain Village which he organises at DEF CON every year

Kiran Kumar P.G.

Head of Security Advisory

Digital 14, UAE

Babitha BP

Chief Information Security Officer

CSB Bank Ltd

Chief Information Security Officer in CSB Bank Ltd (formerly known as Catholic Syrian Bank), is the head of IT security, driving the IT security strategy and implementation forward whilst protecting the business from security threats and cyber-hacking. Have 20+ years of diverse Information Technology & security experience, building high- performance cross-functional teams that have consistently delivered excellent results. Has held a series of roles in Information Technology for over a decade.

Speaker in many National and International Tech Forums & summits. Involved in mentoring young professionals in their career path. Frequent speaker in colleges and schools to make students aware about cyber security & career. Part of various cyber security awareness campaigns by ASAP Kerala government, Rotary Clubs, IEEE,IMA etc.

A Graduate of Bachelor of Technology (B Tech) from Kerala University, a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) issued by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), holds Diploma in information audit (DISA) holds Certified Network Security Specialist (CNSS) issued by International Cyber Security Institute and is a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers. (CAIIB) from Indian Institute of Banking & Finance (IIBF).

Board member of ISACA Cochin Chapter. Has been honoured with India's top IT Security lnfluencers and Community Contributors Award 2021 by CISO Platform, lnfosec Maestro Awards 2021, Cyber Security Leadership Award by CX0 and Tech Summit 2021,Cyber Sentinel Award 2020, CX0 Tech Excellence award 2020 by CXOTV News Virtual Tech Summit and Award 2020, Best IT Leader Information Security and Risk Management by BFSI Innovation and Tech Summit, Defenders 100 Award by CISOCONNECT, BOLD CISO Award by dynamic CISO 2020, Top 100 CISO Award 2020 by CISO Platform and lnfosec Maestro Award 2019.

Article were published in Mathrubhumi newspaper,banking Frontier Magazine, CEO Lounge and ETCISO.

First Lady CISO in Indian Banking Industry.

Rahul Sasi

Founder

CloudSEK

Rahul Sasi is an Indian entrepreneur, Founder of CloudSEK, and a security expert. He was voted as the top influential Cyber Security person in 2015, he has made significant open source contribution to the security landscape and an invited speaker to over 20+ countries. He is part of working committees of RBI ,MeitY and IIT Kanpur Startup Investments.

Varun Kohli

Lead Security Engineer - Machine Learning

Google

Varun is a traveler by heart and a Lead Security Engineer - Machine Learning with Google by profession. He started his career as a software engineer with a product development organization and now works on developing machine learning models to detect abuse on Google Cloud. He is an avid machine learning developer, researcher and a public speaker. Google Crowdsource, c0c0n, Nullcon, Amdocs R&D and SkyConf Poland are to name a few.

Ravindra Ramnani

Senior Solutions Architect

Elastic

Varun is a traveler by heart and a Lead Security Engineer - Machine Learning with Google by profession. He started his career as a software engineer with a product development organization and now works on developing machine learning models to detect abuse on Google Cloud. He is an avid machine learning developer, researcher and a public speaker. Google Crowdsource, c0c0n, Nullcon, Amdocs R&D and SkyConf Poland are to name a few.

Baptiste DAVID

ESIEA (C + V)O LabLaval,

France

DAVID Baptiste is an independent researcher. His research is mainly focused on malware analysis, security under Windows operating system, networks, kernel development and vulnerabilities. Sometimes math, physic or anything cool from that stuff is perfect for him to enhance everyday life. He also likes good food and good vine (we never change), but he is okay if you offer him beers. He has already made several conferences including: iAwacs, c0c0n, Ground zero summit, EICAR, ECCWS, Defcon, Black Hat USA.

Nehal Mehta

President and Co-founder

Rainbow Secure

Adv. (Dr.) Prashant Mali

President

Cyber Law Consulting

(Advocates & Attorneys)

Dr. Abhilasha Vyas

Vertical Head

Cloud Security

CloudThat Technologies Bangalore

Jiten Jain

Director

Voyager Infosec

Jiten Jain is a leading Cyber Security Expert having specialization in Geopolitical intelligence analysis and mapping them to Global CyberConflicts. He is currently heading Indian Infosec Consortium, an independent not-for-profit organization of leading cyber experts in India. He is also the co-founder of Voyager Infosec, a technology startup specializing in cyber threat intelligence. He is regularly quoted on Technology and Cyber issues in Print and Electronic Media.

Jiten is a recipient of Chevening fellowship by British Government and has studied Cyber Defense and Information Assurance at Defence Academy of United Kingdom. He is the Youngest speaker to have addressed Air Commanders Conferences of Indian Air Force, Acknowledging his authority on cyber security Amity University has conferred him Honorary Professorship. Jiten is also a visiting faculty on Cyber Operations and Intelligence at the National Police Academy of India and Foreign Service Institute of Ministry of External Affairs.

Tal Catran

Accelerators Guru & cyber security expert

Business Development & Marketing Expert with broad experience in aspects international marketing, commercialization, assimilating technologies into corporates.

Education
- B.A in Economics and Logistics from Bar-Ilan University
- L.L.B from The Academic Center of Law and Business

Professional Experience
  - Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)
  - MHT- Training & Technical Publications Division
  - Marketing and Business Development Senior Consultant. MHT is the knowledge base center for the entire IAI, systems and products developed, manufactured and maintained for customers in over 60 countries worldwide. MHT is a leader in developing training technologies, conducting professional courses for operators and technicians as well as establish Aviation, UAV and Cyber Academies worldwide
  - International Keynote speaker and professional lecturer on technology innovation and startup eco-systems worldwide, presenting a wide overview regarding entrepreneurial challenges, the era of accelerators, Incubators, startups founders, angel investors, VC and everything in between.
  - Participated and mentioned in several events in India:
       - Nasscom- WCIT-NILF 2018
       - 2nd Aerospace & Defense Manufacturing Technologies conference (2017)
       - Forbes India
       - New India Express
       - Financial Express
   - International Startup Accelerator’s Guru, established up to date 12 and currently manages 5 in a variety of technologies, including HLS & Defense, Smart Cities, Cyber, Blockchain and Women Digital Health
   - Commander (Res) Israeli Navy. Graduated Israel's IDF- Naval Academy and served in the Navy for 13 years, in a variety of combat and operations roles. ranked Commander (res)


Holding a bachelor's degree in Economics and Logistics from Bar-Ilan University and a bachelors in legislative law from Academic Center of Law and Business, Tal Catran is a pioneering expert in Business Development &Marketing.

Founder and speaker at TC Holdings, he has previously served as Marketing and Business Development Senior Consultant at Israel Aerospace Industries. Presently, he serves as an International Keynote Speaker and Start-Up Ecosystem Builder.

With vast experience in a variety of fields, including international marketing, commercialization, assimilating of technologies into corporates, Catran is a celebrated lecturer on technology innovation and startup ecosystems. He has expertly presented on multiple topics, such as today’s entrepreneurial challenges, the era of accelerators, incubators, startups founders and angel investors worldwide.

Joseph Mlodzianowski

Author

Trainer and Founder of Texas Cyber Summit

oseph Mlodzianowski is an information security aficionado and adventurer; he started multiple villages at RSA Conference, DEFCON, and BLACK HAT, among others, including founding the Red Team Village with the help of great friends. He has been in the information technology security field for more than 25 years working in infrastructure, security, networks, systems, design, offense, and defense. Joseph is currently an enterprise security architect of Cisco Managed Services. He spent more than 10 years in the Department of Defense as an operator, principal security network engineer, and SME designing and deploying complex technologies and supporting missions around the world in multiple theaters. He has consulted, investigated, and provided support for multiple federal agencies over the past 15 years.

Joseph continues to contribute to content, reviews, and editing in the certification testing and curriculum process. He spent almost 15 years in the energy sector supporting refineries, pipelines, and chemical plants; specializing in industrial control networks; and building data centers.

Joseph holds a broad range of certifications, including the Cisco CCIE, CNE, CSNA, CNSS-4012, CISSP, ITILv4, NSA IAM, NSA IEM, OIAC1180, FEMA IS-00317, ACMA, First Responder, Hazmat Certified, Member of Bexar County Sheriff's Office CERT, MCSE, and Certified Hacking Investigator. He also is a founding contributor to the CyManII | Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute, a member of Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3aawg.org), and founder of the Texas Cyber Summit and Grayhat Conferences. He believes in giving back to the community and supporting nonprofits.

Alexander Manners

Principal Security Engineer

Prelude Research, Inc

Alex Manners is a Principal Cybersecurity Engineer at Prelude Research Inc. There, he leads the Security Research and Engineering team building attacks, agents, and more, for an autonomous red teaming platform called “Operator”. Prior to joining Prelude, Alex spent 2 years at The MITRE Corporation as the research and development (R&D) team lead for the CALDERA adversary emulation framework and a member of the ATT&CK Evaluations team. His experience spans the government and private sector, including cloud security at Amazon Web Services (AWS), federal contracting at CACI, and several years as a Cyber Warfare Operations Officer in the US Air Force (USAF).

Kristopher Willis

Principal Security Engineer

Prelude Research, Inc

ristopher WillisKristopher Willis is a Principal Cyber Security Researcher at Prelude. Kris has both his Masters in Computer Security Fundamentals, CSE and Bachelors in Information Studies from the University of South Florida. During his time at the University of South Florida, Kris played numerous capture the flag (CTF) competitions and was a 2-term President of Whitehatters Computer Security Club (WCSC). Kris has since gone on to professionally compete, organize, and create challenges for CTFs. Professionally, Kris has experience within Academia, DoD contracting (both small and large), and within the DOE National Lab space. Kris was a technical lead on AFRL BlackBadge program which facilitated DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC). Kris was also a technical lead on ACT and ACT2 programs delivering operationally ready offensive cyber tools. Kris’s primarily technical background is in software vulnerability research, automated program analysis, program synthesis, and offensive cyber tool development.

Michael C. Long II

Principal Adversary Emulation Engineer

MITRE Corporation

Michael Long is a Principal Adversary Emulation Engineer at the MITRE Corporation and a former U.S. Army Cyber Operations Specialist. Michael has over 10 years' experience in offensive and defensive cyber operations. With MITRE, Michael practices adversary emulation to improve the cybersecurity of our nation' most sensitive and critical networks.

Akib Sayyed

Founder

Matrix Shell

Akib, working in telecom security field since last 9 years. He is the founder of Matrix Shell, a telecom security consulting company, Presented in information security conferences such as NullCon 2012, 2015, C0c0n 2014,Nullcon 2017, Nullcon 2021. He loves to discover new attacks in telecom network. As telecom security enthusiast he has built some proprietary tools for telecom network security assessment.

Hidayath Khan

Sr. Red Team Lead

Kimberly-Clark

idayath Khan is a seasoned industry veteran with dedicated InfoSec experience spanning more than two decades. “Khan” – as he is usually known in the Cybersecurity Industry is also a SANS Instructor and teaches SANS popular courses such as “Network Penetration Testing” & “Security Essentials” courses. Currently, Khan works as a ‘Sr. Red Team Lead’ for Kimberly-Clark – a fortune 50 organization based out of Bangalore, India. His previous experiences include working in senior cyber security roles for various organizations across Middle East including Emirates Airlines, Belgacom/Scanit, eHosting-Datafort & Sentelist. He has his CISSP, GCED, GCIH, GPEN, GSEC, GREM certifications and brings with him a wealth of knowledge and hands-on skills garnered from the trenches in various consulting assignments for a range of fortune 100 companies across the EMEA and APAC region.

His Expertise Includes: Red Teaming, Purple Teaming, Adversary Emulation, Network/Wireless/ERP/SAP Penetration Testing, Incident Handling & Response, Security Audits, Defense-in-depth, Defensible Network Architectures, CIS Controls Audit, Active Defense, Cyber Deception, Windows Security hardening & Unix Security hardening.

Khan is also an active contributor to the information security community and has published several articles in leading regional magazines such as Computer News Middle East, Network Middle East & Security Advisor Middle East. He is also a prominent speaker at various security conferences and has been involved with SANS Institute as a GIAC Advisory Board member and mentor since 2001.

Dr. Shashi Karhail

Security Researcher

Free Lancer

Dr. Shashi Karhail has worked as Lead Engineer with Samsung Advance Technology Group and is currently a Security Researcher Free lancer. Being a passionate Cybersecurity Enthusiast, Dr. Shashi enjoys sharing her technical knowledge with others and has done so by participating and delivering expert talks on various international platforms. Her educational qualifications include BCA, MCA, and a Ph.D. in Grid Computing Security.

Prof. Triveni Singh, IPS

Superintendent of Police

Cyber Crimes

Uttar Pradesh Police

Prof. Triveni Singh, IPS is currently posted as SP, Cyber Crimes, Uttar Pradesh Police. He has done his Bachelor’s from Allahabad University; MBA (Finance) from IGNOU; Ph.D. in ‘Financial Cyber Crime Management’ from Amity University, Uttar Pradesh and is a Certified Ethical Hacker and Computer Forensic Investigator.

He has served in different government departments including Jail, Rural Development, and has worked in different capacities in Vigilance, Economic Offences, Anti-Corruption, and District Law Enforcement wings of Police. He is a resource person to many organizations such as CBI, NPA, ICAI, NCRB, State Judicial Academies, etc., and is a regular keynote speaker at various national and international conferences. He has been honored with several distinctions, notably:

• President Medal for Gallantry by The President of India


• Certificate of Honor by Director, CBI


• Winner - India Cyber Cop of the Year Award, 2012 by DSCI-NASSCOM


• Commendation Disc by DGP, Uttar Pradesh


• Life Time Achievement Award by Digital Investigators Association


• Conferred as ‘Honorary Professor’ by Amity University, Uttar Pradesh


• Amity Alumni Achievers Award 2017 by Amity University, Uttar Pradesh


• Law Enforcement Award by Visa Security Summit, Seoul, South Korea


• Gold Commendation Disc awarded by DGP Uttar Pradesh.


• Digital Forensic Investigating officer Excellence Award by International


• Association of Scientist & Researchers

He has authored many case studies in national and international journals and is often quoted on cyber-crime issues by several media houses. He is co-author of the book 'Hidden Files' which is based on real cases of cybercrime investigation and runs a radio show on RedFM to spread cyber safety awareness. He has solved several complex cyber-crime cases in which about 600 cybercriminals and over Rs. 4000 crore of fraudulent money was involved.

Dr. Faruk Kazi

Professor & Dean R&D

VJTI Mumbai

Amit Dubey

Cyber Crime Investigator

Amit is a renowned National Security Expert and a Crime Investigator on Cyber Forensics and Ethical Hacking to various Indian InvestigationAgencies and Police dept.He has been invited by IndianParliament to consult Parliamentary Standing Committees on Cyber Security issues.CNN-IBN featured him as National Security Expert and covered few of his cases in a documentary on“Cyber warfare in India”in 2012.Author of two books named“Return of The Trojan Horse,Tales of Criminal Investigation”and ‘Hidden Files’which includes few of his interesting and thrilling crime cases that he has worked and solved successfully.He also runs a Radio Show 'RedFM Hidden Files'.Few of his demonstration of hacking a mobile in just 10 seconds got viral on social media.A commonwealth UK,chevening fellow and an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur,Awarded at many international platforms including the prestigious Golden Peacock Award,Aegis Graham Bell Award,Indo-American Chamber of Commerce for Best Innovation in Cyber Security.

Santosh Gulivindala

Security Engineer

ServiceNow

Santosh Gulivindala, security engineer who has 10+ yrs experience in Web & Mobile application Security. Worked across multiple projects in various domains like Banking, Insurance, Government Sector, Health, Ecommerce,Independent platforms security. Passionate about delivering trainings on web application and mobile applicationsecurity from a whitebox perspective.

Viraj Gandhi

Sr Staff Product Security Engineer

SailPoint

Viraj Gandhi, Sr Staff Product Security Engineer at SailPoint, holding Masters and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

Spent a decade in Agile/Scrum software development before plunging into cybersecurity space.

In-depth knowledge of common web application vulnerabilities (OWASP Top Ten)

Designing processes for security reviews, threat modeling, and partnering with product engineering teams

Experience working across teams to help drive security improvements across the enterprise by providing security advice and risk assessment.

A strong advocate for equity at the Workplace and currently volunteering with WiCyS, a community promoting the advancement of women in the cybersecurity workforce.

Sandeep Rao

Enterprise Sales Engineer

CrowdStrike India

Vandana Verma Sehgal

Security Relations Leader

Snyk

India

Vandana is a seasoned security professional with experience ranging from application security to infrastructure and now dealing with DevSecOps. She has been Keynote speaker / Speaker /Trainer at various public events ranging from Global OWASP AppSec events to BlackHat events to regional events like BSides events in India. She is part of the OWASP Global board of directors. She also works in various communities towards diversity initiatives InfosecGirls, InfosecDiversity and null.

She has been recipient of multiple prestigious awards like Global cybersecurity influencer among IFSEC Global's "Top Influencers in Security and Fire" Category for 2019, Cybersecurity Women of the year award by Women Cyberjutsu Society in the Category “Secure Coder”.

Yashodhan Vivek Mandke

Head of Compliance and Quality

Payatu Security Consulting PVT Ltd

11 years in R&D for IoT and AI product development and Security. Currently working as Head of Compliance and quality at Payatu Security Consulting PVT Ltd. Responsibility involves researching IoT security, create new methods and algorithms for IoT security.

Research on Side-channel attacks and Fault Injection for IoT devices Achieving the necessary ISO certifications such as ISO 27001, ISO / IEC 15408, ISA 62443, and accreditations ISO17025 of security compliance for the organization. Developing threat modeling for IoT products

Experience with globally accepted IoT security standards, compliance, and guidelines such as IoTSF, GSMA IoT Security Guidelines, ARM-PSA, etc.

Shruthi Kamath

Customer Success Manager

Appsecco

Saurabh Sharma

Senior Security Researcher

Kaspersky

Saurabh is a Senior security researcher on the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky. He`s contributing to GReAT’s mission by helping to investigate the most active and advanced threat actors, targeted attacks, attacker tools and more. Saurabh’s professional passions include reverse engineering malware, uncovering, tracking and analyzing APT campaigns and reporting all about it.

Misha Mehra

Senior Security Analyst

DRDO, New Delhi

Misha Mehra is working as Scientist D in DIT&CS DRDO Hqr. She holds a master’s degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD) and a bachelor degree from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She has been part of a specialised cyber security course from Masarky University, Czech Republic for building trustworthy cyber security systems. She was awarded the prestigious award for “Cyber Innovater - Women in Cyber: Making a difference” from The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) in the year 2021. She was also awarded the “Women Scientist of the Year” award by Engineering Watch magazine in the year 2014. She has also been conferred with DRDO Technology Day Award in the year 2012.

She has authored research papers in the field of cyber security which are published in prestigious conferences. Her latest paper is on “Improving ML Detection of IoT Botnets using Comprehensive Data and Feature Set”, published in 13th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETs) 2021. Another paper on “Event triggered malware: A new challenge to sandboxing” was published in 2015 Annual IEEE India Conference (INDICON).

Her sound knowledge on building secure cyber systems has been utilised in designing and developing indigenous cyber security solutions for DRDO. Her major contributions include development of two security solutions- one for secure transferring of files in cross domain networks and another for carrying out security audits for windows and Linux based systems. She has been working extensively on machine learning techniques so as to apply them in the area of cyber security. On this line, she has developed a tool based on neural networks to detect the presence of confidential text in classified documents. During her masters’ thesis at IITD, she has used supervised machine learning techniques to detect the presence of botnets in IoT networks and SSH logs. She has also worked on open source sandboxing techniques for analysing windows and linux based malwares. She has also been instrumental in the formulation and implementation of security policies and guidelines and deployment of security solutions in DRDO and other agencies. Besides research and academics, she is a trained kathak dancer. Her hobbies include reading and travelling while listening to music.

Kurt Baumgartner

Principal Security Researcher

Kaspersky, GReAT

United States

Kurt is a principal security researcher with GReAT. He joined Kaspersky in 2010. He researches and reports on targeted attack activity, complex intrusions, and advanced malware. Some of his favorite past presentations include work and reporting on Darkhotel, Turla, and Sofacy/Zebrocy.
He is interested in privacy and cryptography technologies. Kurt contributes to working groups and shares his findings with other members of various online communities. You can find him at @k_sec on twitter and ksec on keybase.

Nitin Rai

Senior Security Analyst

DRDO, New Delhi

Nitin Rai is working as a Senior Scientist in DIT&CS DRDO. He holds a master’s degree in Internet Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (IISc) and bachelor degree from Lakshmi Narayan College of Technology (LNCT), Bhopal. He has 18+ years of experience in designing and developing Cyber security and Network security solutions for defence users. He has received Group Technology Award for “Design, Development & Implementation” Network Gateway Firewall” in 2004. He has also been conferred with National Technology Day-2019 and National Science Day-2020 award by DRDO. He has authored research papers in the field of cyber security which are published in prestigious conferences. His latest paper is on “PDF Sanitizer”, published in IEEE international conference on Power and Advance Computing Technologies i-PACT 2019. Another paper on Windows API based Malware Detection and Framework Analysis" has been published in International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research Volume, Issue3, March 2012. His sound knowledge on building secure cyber systems has been utilised in designing and developing indigenous cyber security solutions for DRDO. His major contributions include development of two security solutions- one for secure transferring of files in cross domain networks and another for carrying out security audits for windows and linux based systems.

Shivani Sharma

Founder

KLEAP Technologies Pvt Ltd

Suresh Menon

Managing Partner

Leonis Consultancy LLP

Suresh Menon based out of Mumbai brings in 33+ years of IT experience in India and abroad, is Managing Partner @ Leonis Consultancy LLP which is celebrating 10th Anniversary this year.

He has successfully conducted cyber security awareness seminars, regarding the dangers of cyber-crime across the Corporate, Realty, Banking, Hospitality, Government-Education, Healthcare & Telecom.

He has been a speaker @ University College of London (in Mumbai), the CA Institute - Western Region, at Indian Banks Association’s Banking Secure meet. He was invited by the Australian / British High Commission Mumbai, during a visit by their cyber security delegation to India and to deliver a lecture to their employees

He recently was invited by Confederation of Indian Industries, Comptroller Audit General (CAG) Mumbai, UAE Central Bank Abu Dhabi, Mumbai University (UGC), VJTI Mumbai, & as Co-Chair by Institute of Forensic Sciences & TATA Institute of Social Sciences, at their National Conclave in Mumbai, during which the papers presented on cyber security / forensics by their students from all over India, were presented / evaluated.)

He earlier delivered a lecture on cyber security for members of Judiciary, Prosecution Lawyers, Police officers at the LNJN National Institute of Criminology and Forensics Sciences Institute – New Delhi and (NEPA) North Eastern Police Academy, Meghalaya.

Resource person for Police Cyber Cells in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane & Institute of Forensic Sciences.

He is an elite member of the Kerala Police CyberDome.

Suresh holds a Criminal Justice and Data Analysis Certification from IIT Kanpur, he holds a M.A. in Police Administration from Annamalai University, is a CEH, (Certified Ethical Hacker) from EC Council USA, holds Cyber Law Diploma from NALSAR Lawn University Hyderabad

Kavisha Sheth

Security Analyst

Appsecco

Pierre-François Maillard

Independent researcher

Pierre-François Maillard is an engineer in the field of cyber security and operating system. During his courses, he worked with the CVO laboratory (Operational Cryptology and Virology) with a specialization in the UEFI System. He has also worked in various company in reverse engineering and in the industrial cybersecurity. Following his works, he has written a series of 3 articles in MISC, a top French cybersecurity magazine, about the UEFI and the different ways to work on it. He has also organized a workshop and a conference in the same field at C0c0n. He is currently looking for an international PHD in cybersecurity.

Sreelakshmy Palliyil

Information Security Professional

UAE

Information Security Professional with 7+ years if experience in Offensive Security. She has been awarded ‘Top 30 Women in Cyber Security’ ASEAN 2021.

Swathi KV

Information Security Professional

UAE

Senior cyber security professional with 10+ years of experience in defensive security with expertise in SOC operations, threat hunting and SOAR automation

Bishakha Jain

Information Security Consultant

IBM

Ranjith Menon

Co-Founder

h1hakz

Ranjith Menon who has more than 11 years of experience. He is an active player on Bug bounty programs and specialized in Web application, Mobile, Cloud and a contributor to the Security Community and co-founder of h1hakz, an open platform for knowledge sharing through webcast series. Also, he has found many vulnerabilities for many organizations. Also given training on c0c0n XII, c0c0n XI, Bslides delaware, WOPR, HackMiami etc.Apart from hacking, he gets time for fitness from his work schedule.

Ruchira Pokhriyal

Associate Cloud Developer

-Security Specialist

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Miss. Ruchira Pokhriyal, a former Penetration Tester, has expertise in conducting authorized simulated cyberattacks on web applications, and is currently furthering her passion for building secure systems at Amazon Web Services, as an Associate Cloud Security Specialist. You’d often see her advocate for empowering Women in STEM & LGBTQ+ visibility and acceptance. Her educational qualifications include BSc. Computer Science, MSc. Computer Science & MS degree in Cybersecurity.

Aastha Sahni

Lead CyberSecurity Instructor

Flatiron School

Kartheek Lade

Security Researcher

Payatu

Kartheek Lade (0xh3nry) works as a Security Researcher at Payatu focusing on IoT security testing and research. With his background in Automotive security, he loves creating open-source tools and projects, also enjoys developing resources to learn about Automotive security and cybersecurity with ease. He has given talks, workshops/training at conferences like BlackHat Asia Arsenal, OWASP Seasides, BSides Delhi CHV, and some infosec community meetups.

Greeshma M R

Co-founder

Ecoloop360

Greeshma is an entrepreneur, author, and freelance writer. She is also one of the co-founders of Ecoloop360, a startup focused on sustainable solutions and knowledge management. She has an educational background in Information Technology and Translational engineering, and her interest areas include Technology-Human interaction, Sustainable Development, Gender & Society. She has also published two books (The Infodemic and Dark Web Demystified).

Sreenikethana Venkatachalapathy

Lead Engineer

Vitesco Technologies

Sreenikethana is working in Vitesco Technologies as Project Security and Privacy Manager, handling the work packages ranging from security controls for Automotive products with the security features such as intrusion detection system, secure on board communication, HSM and security access control with security project process house of ISO21434.

AJ Khan

President

Global Syndicate for Mobility Cybersecurity

AJ Khan is the President of Global Syndicate for Mobility Cybersecurity, a not-for-profit focused on enhancing cyber in all forms of Mobility. He is also the ex-Chair of the Cyber Security Committee of Automotive Parts Manufacturing Association of Canada. AJ Khan is also a Cyberprenuer and has multiple startups focused on Cyber. These include CloudGRC Inc., Cyber Innovation Leadership Solutions (CILS) and Vehiqilla Inc.

AJ has over 20 years of experience in Governance, Risk & Compliance, and 13 years of experience in Cybersecurity Innovation and Emerging Technologies. AJ is an ardent advocate of Cyber Security and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and in his view, there is a critical need to address Cyber Security in today’s Connected and Cloud deployments and if considerable effort is not made to address this issue, organizations will incorporate considerable Security Debt that will manifest itself later in the form of major security breaches.

AJ is also a noted author. His first book, “The Global Age of Entrepreneurship”, was focused on Innovation and entrepreneurship. His new book, “Automotive Cyber Governance” focused on challenges and opportunities in automotive cybersecurity is scheduled to be published by the end of 2021

Saman Fatima

Data Engineer

Macquarie Group

Dhruv Gupta

OT Security Consultant

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority

Dubai

Dhruv is a part of security consulting function with strong focus in OT Security , Security architecture assessment , Cyber security consulting , ISA 62443 , ISO 27001:2013 . He has an experience in designing information security governance frameworks , policies and procedures of information security audits , Network Security Configuration review , IT Infrastructure Review , Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing with providing consultation on OT security Assessment.
Dhruv has worked upon a wide variety of clients in Oil and gas , Utilities , manufacturing , IT and Banking Organizations. He can perform assessments of existing controls for organizations and third party risk assessment across vendors who manages Network nodes and security hardening configuration.

Gunjan Chhillar

Corporate Sales Engineer

Crowdstrike

India

Gunjan Chhillar is a seasoned Cybersecurity Professional with 5+ years of rich experience in the Information security domain. She is presently working with Crowdstrike as Corporate Sales Engineer.

She define herself as a passionate & continuous learner into this exciting cyber world. Confident Speaker & represented at organisation wide security events for delivering multiple webinars/sessions on security solutions.

Her domain expertise lies in solution consultancy which includes Cyber Risk Quantification, Hardware Security modules (HSMs), Zero Trust, architecting solutions to identity & Mitigate the Cyber risk posture, Cloud Security & Endpoint Security solutions. She is associated with WICCI Delhi Safety & Security council as Cyber Security expert & she is chapter lead for the Bahadurgarh location for Infosecgirls community & encourage women professionals and students to enhance their participation in the field of Information Security.

John Heldreth

Founder - ASRG

Automotive security Research Group

John is an experienced project manager / engineer, entrepreneur and security evangelist in the automotive industry. Driven by industry challenges and creating solutions for business and engineering problems, he takes pride in providing solutions based on innovation. Outside of his daily work at Volkswagen in Car Security Operations and Governance, he is the founder of Automotive Security Research Group, where he has focused on enabling the security community for Automotive products and services. He has a Engineering Technology degree from Purdue University, a Masters in Business Administration from German Graduate Studies and currently resides in Berlin, Germany.

Shrutirupa Banerjiee

Web Application Security Analyst

Qualys

Manoj Kumar

Co-Founder

h1hakz

Manoj Kumar has more than 8 years of experience in the field of Application Security with masters in cybersecurity and a co-founder of h1hakz. He has Developed many Secure Application Projects using different languages and has Code reviewed a wide range of applications, from embedded systems to web applications including Retail Banking and E-commerce Application. Also given training on c0c0n XII, c0c0n XI, Bslides delaware, WOPR, HackMiami etc

Gayatri Nayak

Associate Consultant

Synopsys

India

Gayatri Nayak is a Cyber Security enthusiast currently working as an Associate Consultant at Synopsys. She holds MSc. degree in Information Technology and is a member of the Event management team of the null community. She is an avid reader, researcher, and speaker at Infosec Girls.

Neha Dhyani

Senior Security Consultant

VMware Carbon Black

India

Neha Dhyani is an established Cybersecurity Professional with 15 years of rich experience in the Information security domain. She is presently working with VMware Carbon Black as Senior Security Consultant.

She define herself as a passionate & continuous learner into this exciting cyber world. Holds top notch internationally recognized security certifications like CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CEH, MITRE ATT&CK and many more. Confident Speaker & represented at organisation wide security events for delivering multiple webinars/sessions on security solutions.

Her domain expertise lies in solution consultancy which includes telecom security, architecting solutions for next gen SOC infra, Cloud Security & Endpoint Security solutions. She is chapter lead for the Delhi location for Infosecgirls community & encourage women professionals and students to enhance their participation in the field of Information Security.

Anas Ahammed K A

Chapter Lead | ASRG-Kerala

Automotive Security Research Group

Anas is an enthusiastic engineering student with great passion for technology.He currently serves as the chapter lead of Automotive Security Research Group-Kerala.
As an experienced volunteer he has a demonstrated history in working with various technical organizations.He has been an active IEEE member since 2018 and has previously served as the chairperson of IEEE ComSoc chapter of MACE Student Branch.
Anas is currently pursuing his bachelors in Electronics and Communication from Kerala Technological University.

Muskan Mangla

Information Security Consultant

Mohammed Shine

Chapter Lead

Automotive Security Research Group

Security Engineer at UST, Bugbounty Hunter, Hall of fames in Apple, Google, T-mobile...

Aarushi Koolwal

Cyber Threat Researcher

Intern, Cloudsek

Arathy Nair

Technology Risk Analyst

Bank of America

Hussaina Begum

Staff Engineer

VMware