HALL OF FAME

A Graduate in Computer Science and Engineering, holds a PG Diploma in Advanced Business Computing from C-DAC, envisioned to abridge the gap between the technology ridden and technology driven. An Open Source Enthusiast, working in the capacity of Project Engineer with C-DAC, Hyderabad. His core interest areas include Open Source Technologies, Web Security, Mobile Computing and Business Intelligence.

Project Engineer,
C-DAC

Abhinav works for Infosys Technologies from the past 1 year and is a budding security enthusiast and researcher. He is also a developer and is currently working on the creation of a system which will help in the Automation of LED Streetlights

Security enthusiast and researcher,
Infosys Technologies

Ajit Hatti is a Co-founder of "null -Open security community" the largest community of Hackers in India. Apart form securing technologies and products, he loves to design puzzles, CTFs and JailBreak at nullcon and other conferences.

Currently working with Symantec Corporation, he has worked as an Engineer and Researcher with many security companies like IBM-ISS, Bulelane, Zscaler in past.

Also he has presented his security research at BlackHat, NullCon and many other security initiatives like OWASP, ClubHack and various other security symposiums.

Co-founder,
Null - Open security Community

Alok Gupta With over 24 years of rich and varied experience in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry Alok as a parallel entrepreneur co-founded several ICT companies such as Samtech, airJaldi, XENSIXand Pyramid, a boutique Digital Crime, Fraud and Forensic solution and services provider to Law Enforcement and Enterprises of which he is the Founder & Managing Director.

As a past member of the National Committee on Information Technology for Confederation of Indian Industries(CII), Alok advised and provided deep insights into how can Indian Enterprises and Government leverage use of ICT and Information Security to compete and grow in the global economy.

As a member of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE) Alok mentors young entrepreneurs. Alok is also the President of the Alumni Association of Birla Institute of Management Technology and a founding member of Birla Alumni Association Network. Alok has also been inducted as Board of Members of the Amity Institute of Cyber Law & Cyber Crimes and member of the IMS Law advisory committee. Alok is also the founding member of the DSCI Cyber Forensic Forum (DCFF) representing the Digital Forensic industry

Founder - Pyramid Cyber Security & Forensic

Anant Shrivastava is a Security Researcher. He holds a GWAPT, CEH, CSTP and RHCE. He has been speaker at various conferences like Nullcon, c0c0n, Clubhack, his talks are focused on android. He is the creator of Android Tamer – VM for android security professionals. Active member of Null, Garage4Hackers. His expertise remains in Linux, Web Applications (Dev and security testing) and Mobile devices (OS and Application) Security.

Security Researcher

Anirudh Duggal has been working with INFOSYS technologies as a developer and application security researcher since August 2012. He has won Nullcon jailbreak 2013 and was also put in Microsoft list of security researchers for revealing some bugs in Microsoft sites. He has done some more disclosure for other firms also. He is currently working on raspberry pi driven projects which include security and sustainability.

Developer and application security researcher
Infosys Technologies

Ankur Bhargava is Working with Appscan Team as a security researcher in IBM India Software Labs, his daily job includes research in Web application security, Penetration Testing. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker and has worked with Infosys Technologies where he did research on Malware Analysis, Penetration Testing, Mobile Penetration Testing. Ankur was a speaker at C0C0N 2010. where he presented his paper on topic “Client Side Exploits Using PDF”. Ankur is active member of null and OWASP Bangalore chapter.

Application Security Professional,
IBM India Software Labs

Antoine Normand has taken over the management of BlueBear LES, a software company specialized in the fight against online child exploitation in 2007. Antoine Normand is a technology and cybercrime expert. He delivered numerous conferences on the topic of cybercrime and visual data forensic to police agencies of Europe, Asia and the USA. On February 27th 2013, Antoine Normand was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his commitment to combating child exploitation on the Internet worldwide.

Before being the CEO and majority shareholder at BlueBear LES, Antoine Normand co-founded Cactus Commerce in 1995. He was responsible of corporate governance, financial management, M&A and operations. Between 1995 and 2006, he was instrumental in positioning Cactus as a world leader in e-commerce solutions on the Microsoft platform. In 2006, Cactus employed a team of 125 professionals located in Cactus offices of Gatineau, Toronto, Montréal and Chicago. Antoine Normand sold his participation in Cactus in 2006.

Antoine received his Civil Law License from the University of Ottawa in 1996.

Antoine Normand is involved with numerous community and fundraising organizations. He was recently appointed President of the Gatineau Chamber of Commerce. He also served as vice-president of CÉRO, a local think thank focused on regional economic development. He was recently appointed as board member of the Canadian Francophone Games 2014 and of the Compagnie de Chemin de fer de l'Outaouais.

From 2006 to 2010, he was elected president of the Gatineau Health Foundation after more than 4 years as vice-president. As president of the foundation he is de facto a director at the board of the Gatineau Health Center. He was also elected President of the Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants du Québec representing Canada at this French organization that promotes entrepreneurship and human values in the corporate world in Paris, France. He served as a director of the Gatineau Economic Development Corporation, of the Solidarity Fund FTQ-Outaouais (local VC), of the 4th Francophone Games fund and at the Ottawa Partnership board (city of Ottawa Economic Development).

Chief Executive Officer,
BlueBear LES,
CANADA

Anup Narayanan is an information security specialist and entrepreneur with more than 12 years of experience. His work focuses on reducing information security risks due to human error. He is a CISA and CISSP. At First Legion, he has created "Information Security Quotient" (www.isqworld.com ) a web service for reducing security risks due to human error through awareness and behavior management. Anup’s clientele spans 4 continents.

Founder,
First Legion Consulting, India

Arpit Patel is security researcher currently pursuing M.E in IT SYSTEM AND NETWORK SECURITY from GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (GTU). He has more than 5+ year experience in the plan, design, implementation and support of LAN networks. He was also work with MNC company like Effective Teleservices Pvt. Ltd now it is ETECH INC. to monitoring, managing and maintain servers Inbound & Outbound campaigns for US and INDIA. He is also involved in the field of teaching as ASSISTANT PROFESSOR in Universal College of Engineering and Technology, Gandhinagar affiliated with GTU. His areas of expertise are in configuring of Windows server 2003/2008 Active Directory and CISCO Routers/Switches. He is interested areas are cloud security, cyber forensics, penetration testing, Security Analyst and audit framework. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified System Administrator: Messaging (MCSA), Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS).

Student of Master of Engineering in IT System And Network Security,
GTU, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

Arron M Finnon has been involved in security research for a over 6 years. Arron has discussed a wide range of security related topics at a number of SecurityHacking conferences in both the UK and Europe, as well as produced over 60 security related podcasts. Interviewing countless security professionals as part of the Finux Tech Weekly Show. During Arron's time at University he was also awarded the SICSA Student Open Source Award for his Advocacy of Free and Open Source software. Now the founder of alba13 research labs, his company specialises in conducting bespoke security research for a number of clients. comments jere

Security Researcher, Alba13 Research Labs, UK

Aseem Jakhar is the Director, research at Payatu Technologies Pvt Ltd a boutique security testing company. He has extensive experience in system programming, security research, consulting and managing security software development projects. He has worked on various security software including IBM ISS Proventia UTM appliance, Mirapoint messaging/security appliance, anti-spam engine, anti-virus software, multicast packet reflector, Transparent HTTPS proxy with captive portal, bayesian spam filter to name a few. He is an active speaker at security and open source conferences; some of the conferences he has spoken at include AusCERT, Defcon, Hack.lu, Blackhat, Xcon, Cyber security summit, Cocon, OSI Days, Clubhack, Gnunify. His research includes Linux remote thread injection, automated web application detection and dynamic web filter. He is the author of open source Linux thread injection kit - Jugaad and Indroid which demonstrate a stealthy malware infection technique. He is well known in the hacking and security community as the founder of null - The open security community, registered not-for-profit organization http://null.co.in , the largest security community in India and the founder of nullcon security conference http://nullcon.net.

Payatu Labs

Ashish Chandra Mishra is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Tesco Hindustan Service Centre (HSC). Ashish has over 12 years of work experience across various fields of Information Technology, including Information Security, Audit & Compliance, Risk Management, Physical Security, Corporate Investigations and Computer Forensics for various companies. He is a BE, MBA, Diploma in Cyber Law and hold leading security certifications viz. CISA, CISM & CRISC (ISACA), BCCE (BCMI), ITIL Foundation, BS 7799 & BS 25999 Lead Auditor. Ashish enjoys consulting in and implementing Information Security and Risk Management best practices and lead the corporate security and risk function of value-based organizations. Ashish has won the Top 100 CISO Awards 2012, he was a part of the team to win SecureSynergy Security Strategist Awards 2005 in IT/ITES category

CISO, Tesco HSC,
India

Basil is an information security professional with over 17 years of experience in IT and Information security. At present he is the CISO for UST Global. In his current 12 year stint in UST Global, he worked in different capacities with multiple projects & clients. Basil played a key role in leading UST Global to BS7799 and ISO 27001 certification. In his current role, he is responsible for the Internal Information Security Compliance and adherence to security policies of UST’s clients. Basil is also responsible for the IT infrastructure Management& Engineering of the entire UST Global. He was instrumental in the deploying the IT infrastructure of the UST Global thereby benchmarking it to international standards. A seasoned professional, he always likes challenges and at present he has taken the end to end IT ownership for the new 3 million sq. Feet facility of the UST Global in Technopark of which 800,000 sq. Feet getting completed later this year.

CISO, UST Global
India

Ms. Pang is a Criminology Consultant. Ms. Pang moved to Canada from the United Kingdom after receiving her B.A. Hons. in Developmental Psychology with Cognitive Studies, which included Artificial Intelligence programming. After completing her M.A. Degree in Criminology in Vancouver, Ms. Pang worked in various fields of Criminology, including the British Columbia Forensics Psychiatric Commission, and the National Headquarters of Correctional Services Canada in Ottawa.

Ms. Pang was commissioned by the B.C. Forensic Psychiatric Commission to develop the first comprehensive, “Standards and Guidelines for the Assessment, Treatment and Management of Sex Offenders in British Columbia”. Ms. Pang also has extensive experience in statistical research and policy development, including in the areas of sex offenders, serious offenders, youth gangs and youth violence, female offenders, community policing, domestic violence, equity employment, offender reintegration, and community outreach.

Ms. Pang is one of the founders of The Society For The Policing Of Cyberspace (POLCYB). Based in Vancouver, Canada, POLCYB is an international society devoted to enhancing international collaboration and private-public partnerships to combat cybercrime. In addition to other consultation projects, Ms. Pang is also the Executive Director of POLCYB.

Ms. Pang was awarded the prestigious Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013. The medal was presented to Ms. Pang in recognition of her significant achievements and continuous contributions to the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) mandate of “leading progressive change in policing”.

Executive Director
The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB)

Bhadran V K is Associate Director, Resource Centre for Cyber Forensics at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing(CDAC) , under Dept of Information technology, Govt. of India.The Centre has developed various kinds of Cyber Forensic Tools for disk forensics, network forensics and device forensics. Bhadran has been pivotal in establishing the Resource Centre for Cyber Forensics and is currently leading the development activities in network forensics and working on developing an Enterprise Forensics System with advanced capabilities for policy based monitoring and mitigation of malicious activities emanating inside the organization and external threats. Worked in Artificial Intelligence areas such as Expert Systems, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Processing Systems, Machine Translation and Robotics. He is faculty for Network Forensics at various training programs for law enforcement, defense, and corporate organizations. He has spoken at various seminars across India on network forensics and network security and is a regular guest speaker on Cyber Crimes, Network Forensic and Network Security at various Engineering Colleges.Bhadran has also participated in international network forensic workshops where he trained in South East Asian countries, and Mauritius. Recently Bhadran completed Advanced Level Training on Information Security at Software Engineering Institute, CERT, USA and presented a tutorial on Network Forensics at International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crimes, Abudhabi.

Associate Director,
Resource Centre for Cyber Forensics, C-DAC

Bish is the app security leader at Yahoo SDC India.

He helps engineers develop secure and defensible web apps. Of the remaining time, he focuses on strategic research on defensive coding and tactical pieces around how to make security work without disrupting the business. Prior to Yahoo, he was with McAfee. While At IBM, he lead the application security practice. In his early years he was with Sumeru, a start-up, where he lead the application and network Security practice.

Sr. Principal Security Engineer,
Yahoo

Information Security Management professional with over two decades experience in manufacturing, trading and services, he has been practising in the Information Security and Management domain for over 10 years.

At CDRC he is responsible for conceptualizing, planning, strategy and policy development for various cyber security initiatives to ensureprotection of government assets and citizen protection in the State of Jharkhand; and for devising the state policies for Cyber Security in private and public entities, Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, Crisis Management, Intelligence gathering and more.

Presently his specialization is in Enterprise and Government domain in areas of Information Security Strategy, Policy development, Planning and Oversight. He is particularly interested in areas like Threat Intelligence, Digital Forensics, Critical Infrastructure Protection, SOC, CERT etc.

He is the co-founder of the Indian Honeynet Project which is also supported by CDRC and is presently setting up an India-wide Honeynetwork to analyse malicious trafficand to observe threat and attack vectors.

He is associated with Open Security Alliance andIndiaWatch.inthefirst India centric knowledge and research firm focussed on Information and Data Security and with a number of security firms in advisory capacity.

He can be reached at dinesh (at) opensecurityalliance (dot) org on Twitter @bizsprite

CISA, CISM, ITIL, BS: 7799 (Imp & LA),
Cert IPR Cyber Surveillance Advisor at Cyber Defence Research Center,
(Jharkhand Police – Special Branch)

Dinesh Pillai is a certified BS 7799 Lead Auditor and has played a prominent role in getting various organizations certified in ISO27001 standard of Information Security. As the CEO of Mahindra SSG, Mr. Pillai defines the road map for all business risk security assessments and innovation. A postgraduate in Electronic Engineering, Mr. Pillai comes with rich industry experience spanning 21 years in areas such as Information security audit and implementation, physical security engineering, business process controls, enterprise solutions like ERP. Mr. Dinesh Pillai is recognized as a global thought leader. He has shared his expertise at several national and international conferences on corporate security and addressed key challenges faced by the corporate leaders and the government sector. His perspectives on Business Innovation, Competitive Advantage, Business Intelligence and Sustaining Growth in a complex globalized world have been much appreciated across several forums. He is an active member of the CII, BCCI, FICCI and ASSOCHAM and has been part of their events and projects in India and abroad.

CEO, Mahindra Special Services Group
India

Donn Hoffman is a Deputy District Attorney for Los Angeles, California. He is an accomplished trial lawyer and a recognized authority on cybercrime. Donn is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California School of Law. Before studying law, Donn worked as a research engineer and software developer. He entered public service and joined the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office soon after earning his JD. After a decade prosecuting murder, gang, elder abuse, and other crimes, Donn joined the High Technology Crime Division. He is assigned to prosecute the most complex network intrusion, cyber harassment and identity theft cases, working closely with local, state and Federal agencies, and with private industry security personnel. Donn serves as legal counsel and special prosecutor for the Los Angeles CIRT. He is an adjunct professor teaching computer forensics law and a sought-after speaker on cybercrime, identity theft, and digital evidence.

Deputy District Attorney

Los Angeles, California

2010-Present: PwC, Director, Cyber Centre of Excellence. Ed helps corporate decision-makers address complex issues such as e-Espionage, money laundering, cyber, fraud, theft of IP and PII, cyber breach, and risk management.

Jan 2000 - Dec 2009 (10 YEARS) LIVED and WORKED in the UNITED KINGDOM (FBI & Microsoft).

MICROSOFT LTD UK: Chief (cyber) Security Advisor, Jul 2005 - Dec 2009 Chief Spokesperson & Senior Cyber Risk Advisor to Customers, employees, Gov't Elites/ Members of Parliament/ House of Lords, Partners, Press/ Analysts, about how Microsoft makes a more safe computing environment, via people, process & technology. Liase with police, security services, gov't agencies, and commerce to insure awareness of criminal element on Internet.

Director, Cyber Centre of Excellence.

For the last 14 years, Esteban has been around security. Initially on very technical roles and later. As his hair grew whiter, his focus swifted towards governance and business aspects of security. He leads the development and implementation across several organisations of an open-source IT GRC application: eramba.org.

He hold some formal education (studied Engineering, working on an MBA), security oriented certificates (CISSP, CISA, CISM, ISO27K LA, Etc) and participated on conferences (in some not just having drinks but also speaking) with other security organisations (OWASP, ISACA, Etc).

Although Esteban was born and raised in Argentina, for the last decade he has been living with his wife and son in Europe, mostly Slovakia.

Captain Frederick Gaudreau is the Officer in charge of the Sûreté du Québec, technological support unit. He manages the investigative technological support for the Sûreté du Québec. He also coordinates a multitude of development projects in partnership with organizations dedicated to the fight against cybercrime. Mr.Gaudreau represents the Sûreté du Québec on several committees and study groups such as the Canadian Federal/Provincial/Territorial study group on cybercrime, FRANCOPOL, POLCYB (The Society for Policing in Cyberspace), NCFTA (National Cyber-Forensic and Training Alliance), ICANN (Internet Corporation on Assigned Names and Numbers) and the AFSIN (Association Francophone des Spécialistes en Investigation Numérique). He is the co-chair of the Canadian Association of Chief of Police E-Crime Committee and a member of the Concordia University CIISE Industrial Advisory Board. He also represented the Sûreté du Québec during several symposiums and conventions in Québec, Canada and Internationally. Mr. Gaudreau holds a BS from the Université du Quebec à Trois-Rivières on Public Safety.

Officer in charge,
Technological Support Unit,
Sûreté du Québec,
Canada.

Georgia Weidman is a penetration tester, security researcher, and trainer. She holds a Master of Science degree in computer science, secure software engineering, and information security as well as holding CISSP, CEH, NIST 4011, and OSCP certifications. Her work in the field of smartphone exploitation has been featured in print and on television internationally. She has presented her research at conferences around the world including Shmoocon, Hacker Halted, Security Zone, and Bsides. Georgia has delivered highly technical security training for conferences, schools, and corporate clients to excellent reviews. Building on her experience, Georgia recently founded Bulb Security LLC a security consulting firm specializing in security assessments/penetration testing, security training, and research/development. She was awarded a DARPA Cyber Fast Track grant to continue her work in mobile device security.

Founder/CEO, Bulb Security LLC
US.

Research scientist at McAfee Labs, an IIT Delhi alumni, Independent Security Researcher and passionate about computer security. Have presented at "NullCon2011" on the topic "Reversing Microsoft Patches to reveal vulnerable code". Specialization is in the field of Offensive Security. In the past, have taken training programs on Fuzzing, Malware Analysis, Offensive Metasploit, Exploit development et. al. Author of various technical blogs and research papers.

Research Scientist / b44nz0r, McAfee

Mr. P.K.H. Tharakan, who belonged to the Indian Police Service, Kerala cadre, retired from service in January 2007. He served the Government in various capacities including Secretary(R) in the Cabinet Secretariat, Govt of India and Director-General of Police, Kerala. After retirement, he served as Advisor to the Administrative Reforms Commission of India. He was also appointed by the President of India as Advisor to the Governor in 2007-2008 when President’s Rule was imposed in Karnataka. Currently, he is a Member of the National Security Advisory Board and the Advisory Committee of the Centre for Strategic Initiatives at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University. He writes on strategic issues and police reforms.

Former Director, RAW

Lishoy Bhaskar Head-Enterprise Business, MobME Wireless solutions Private Limited. Lishoy heads the Government business unit in MobME, and is an expert in Mobile Governance and Mobile based security solutions. Lishoy has more than 6 years of experience in designing and delivering Comprehensive mobile governance projects and Mobile/ Wireless applications for Law enforcement agencies

Vice President, MobME Wireless solutions

With more than 25 years of experience in various facets of Policing, Loknath Behera IPS is one of the pioneer people in the Indian Police Department. He has been into cybercrime investigations, security strategy developments, law and order enforcing, security policy formulation etc. He is also a frequent flyer to many countries in connection with investigations and talks. Loknath Behera has also associated with FBI in counter terrorism field.

Additional Director General of Police,
National Investigation Agency

Serves as the Regional Information Assurance Manager (IAM) and manage Information Assurance (IA) activities, projects, and personnel for Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Far East (NCTS-FE) systems and networks, totaling over 17,000 seats, 22,000 users at nine ONE-Net Local Network Service Centers in Japan, Korea, Guam, Diego Garcia, and Singapore.

Far East Regional Information Assurance Manager (IAM)-US Government

Adjunct Instructor, Tokyo Campus at Temple University

Mohamed Shihab oversees the technical aspects of the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats’s (IMPACT) work, including intellectual property, consulting and knowledge building capacities. Mr. Shihab is part of the core team that conceptualised and incorporated IMPACT into existence.

In collaboration with security experts, Mr. Shihab manages IMPACT’s technical teams in the design and development of various technology tools, programmes and platforms. He also oversees the development of IMPACT’s products such as the IMPACT Government Security Scorecard System and CIRT-Lite. He is also very involved in development activities with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to roll out various programmes and activities to partner countries as part of the United Nations’/ITU’s Global Cybersecurity Agenda (GCA). Mr. Shihab has twenty years of experience in the field of information technology, with particular focus on cybersecurity. He has previously worked as Sales Director of Fujitsu and as Country Manager for StorageTek (for Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei). Mr. Shihab is a graduate in Computer Science from Staffordshire University, U.K.

Advisor (Technical), IMPACT

Currently responsible for safety and security of Citigroup's staff, assets and reputation in South Asia, as well as investigations for internal/external frauds and information security incidents. Also designated as Chief of Internal Vigilance for India. Till May 2008, served with the elite Indian Police Service (IPS), the last assignment being Director, Cyber Security and Compliance, National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), India’s IT association, on secondment from the Government. Served in the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for seven years. Led the Bank Securities and Fraud Cell of CBI at Mumbai for a year. Prior to that, supervised the CBI functioning in the states of Gujarat and Rajasthan. Was the chief of the Mumbai Anti Corruption Branch, CBI’s largest unit in the country, for five years.

Director, Citi Security and Investigative Services,
South Asia

Nikhil.P.Kulkarni is a 21 year old one of the youngest Cyber Security Researchers of India. He was one of the key speakers at DEFCON Bangalore Meet where he presented his research paper on Credit Card Frauds.

He is also an active member of the NULL Security Community and has presented his talks at NULL Bangalore Chapter and NULL Mysore Chapter.

He has helped various companies such as DELL, TechCrunch, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, Barracuda Networks, Engine Yard, etc. in improving their Network Security.

He has also found various Vulnerabilities/Security weaknesses in websites such as Mega.co.nz, About.me, DELL, Harmony App, Phishtank, MakeUseOf and many more.

He has been appreciated by Cyber Czar Kim Dotcom for his efforts and has received an appreciation letter from the CMO of “Mega Privacy Ltd.”

He has been listed and acknowledged in various “HALL OF FAMES” of various companies such as Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Nokia, Yandex , Barracuda Networks and many more…

Cyber Security Researcher

Pawan Kumar Singh is the Chief Information Security Officer of Tulip Telecom Ltd, which is a leader in enterprise connectivity and Data Center business. Tulip Telecom own’s the world’s third largest data canter in the world which is based out of Bengaluru with a floor area of around 9 lakh sq feet. Pawan has more than 14 yrs of cumulative experience in Security Operations, processes and Audits and Compliance. Over the last 9 yrs he has been working in the telecom industry and has been instrumental in setting up Information Security and Compliance teams for 2 major Telecom players in India. He is a CEH, CISSP and ISO 27001 lead auditor. His expertise lies in the Information Security Governance, Audit frameworks, IT Act and regulatory compliance.

CISSP®. Chief Information Security Officer,
Tulip Telecom Limited, India

Prashant works for Infosys technologies and is CISSP, CEH and CCSK. Prashant has been speaker at nullcon, C0C0N, Securitybyte & Clubhack. Prashant is chapter lead for OWASP and null bangalore chapters and contributor to Matriux Security distribution. Prashant's main expertise in on application security and building security architectures.

Infosys

Joined IPS in 1973 after a brief stint in the Central Public Works Department, 1973-1982, served in various capacities in Uttar Pradesh in Fatehgarh, Azamgarh and Pratapgarh, and in the Intelligence, Fire Services and Vigilance departments. Chief Security Officer of UPSRTC before coming to Karnataka on transfer in April, 1982, 1982-1985: Superintendent of Police, Bangalore and Bellary, 1985-1996: SP/CBI Bangalore, DIG/CBI New Delhi and DIG/CBI Madras. In June 1996, promoted as IGP and served as Commissioner for Traffic & Road Safety in the Office of the DG & IGP, Karnataka. 1996-2000: Director (Security & Vigilance) in KSRTC, July-2000 to July-2001: Inspector General of Police (IGP) in Corps of Detectives, From July-2001- February 2006: Chairman & Managing Director of KSPHC, From February 2006- 22 June 2006: Commandant General, Home Guards, Ex- Officio Director, Civil Defence & Director, Fire & Emergency Services, From June 22, 2006: Chairman & Managing Director of KSPHC. Decorated with the Indian Police Medal for meritorious service on Republic Day in 1989 and President's Police Medal for distinguished services on Independence Day in 1995.

Member, Central Vigilance Commission

Working in the field of security from a year and a half now. Have completed my bachelors in computers application. His work includes R&D over various security tools and products for ankhorus like server shield , ESS(Enterprise Surveillance System) and WAF(Web Application Firewall).

CTO Ankhorus Cyber Security

Rahul Sasi (fb1h2s) is working as a Security Researcher for a Global Research firm. He has authored multiple security tools, advisories and articles. He has been invited to speak at various security conferences like HITB [KL], BlackHat [US Arsenal], Cocon (2011, 2012), Nullcon (2011, 2012,2013), HITB (AMS 2012,2013), BlackHat (EU 2012), EKoparty (Argentina), CanSecwest(Canada 2013). His work could be found at Garage4Hackers.

Security Researcher

Certified and experienced professional in the areas of creating and implementing secure information security architecture; internal controls systems and processes; conceptualization, creation, testing and maintenance of business continuity and disaster recovery plans; security audits and certification of network infrastructure; conceptualization and implementation of multi-factor authentication processes (including PKI and X.509 compliant certification infrastructure); creation, assessment and certification of SOX, COSO, CoBIT, ISO-27001, ISO-17799 and ISO-15408 compliant information security management systems.

CEO, Valiant Technologies

Raymond H. Velez is currently the Regional Manager, Asia Pacific, Global Security, Eli Lilly And Company, a global pharmaceutical company. In this role, he manages anti-counterfeiting investigations in the Asia Pacific Region.

Mr. Velez retired from the US Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) in 2001 after having spent 21 years in various investigative positions in the United States, Thailand, India and Pakistan. He has broad experience in investigations ranging from terrorism to drug trafficking. He has also conducted training of police and other government officials throughout Asia and the United States.

Since retirement from the FBI, Mr. Velez also worked as the Senior Investigator for Microsoft Corporation, Law and Corporate Affairs, responsible for IPR investigations in South Asia Pacific. Mr. Velez is also a Certified Fraud Examiner and has completed several computer forensics courses.

Regional Manager,
Asia Pacific,
Global Security,
Eli Lilly And Company

Masters of Law, Certified Digital Evidence Analyst and pursuing Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). Two years of experience in IT Law (Data Privacy and Compliance), Digital Evidence Analysis, Fraud Prevention and detection encompassing corporate and law enforcement trainings and consultancy to provide complete techno-legal solution. Resource faculty for Cyber Laws at – ILS Law College, BVP New Law College, Yashada and Bank of India, Speaker at the leading National and International conferences on IT security and law., Published more than 20 articles in prominent International Information Security magazines on Cyber legal issues

Advocate

Mr. Sameer Saxena, is an alumnus of Monash University, Melbourne, Australia having attained his Master’s in Digital Communications. He has over 12 years of experience, having worked in Singapore and Australia in Information Security products Distribution, Consulting and Training space. At Mahindra SSG he is leading the IAHS Academy, which has been established to delivery job role based training programs in Information Assurance and Homeland Security domains.

Besides imparting training and awareness programs to Corporates in India, Bahrain and Singapore, Mr. Sameer has had the privilege to be listed as a Consultant with the World Bank to impart training in the field of Information Security. He has in the past been an Information Security Officer with a Stock Broking firm, worked on RBI’s Information Security Guidelines compliance project for a Bank and led multiple Information Security projects. He has also consulted and implemented ISO 27001 and ISMS for many clients. He also has been an ISO 27001 Auditor with Certification Body RINA (India). Mr. Sameer was a Visiting Faculty with Symbiosis Centre of Information Technology (SCIT), Pune for 3 years where in addition to teaching a number of subjects, he was the Lead Faculty to review and architect the new Information Security syllabi for the MBA Degree.

Head – IAHS Academy, Mahindra Special Services Group,
India.

Sandeep is an information security professional. His experience spans the information security, information assurance as well as the information audit domains. In his present role as the Senior Manager for Information Security at Syntel, he is responsible for monitoring the security as well as the security initiatives. On the security technologies front his experience includes SIEM tool (Security Incident and Event Management), Digital Forensics, Penetration Testing, Application Security, Data Analytics etc. He has also a wide experience on frameworks and standards including ISO27001, PCI DSS, Cobit, ITIL etc.

Sandeep holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computers with a Master’s in Business Management. Sandeep is a Certified Information Systems Auditor ( CISA ), Certified Information Security Manager ( CISM ), Certified Information Systems Security Professional ( CISSP ), Certified Ethical Hacker ( CEH ).

Sr Manager Information Security, Syntel

Member of Organizing Committee and Jury of CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Awards (2008-)

Current and past guest faculty in several institutions including IIM Kozhikode and IIITM-K, Trivandrum

Graduate of Kurukshetra University (Haryana), and Post-graduate of the Institute of Rural Management, Anand, Gujarat

President, Computer Society of India

President, South East Asian Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC)

Asia-Pacific Co-ordinator, IEEE Computer Society; Global Chair, Distinguished Visitor Programme, IEEE Computer Society; Chair, IEEE Kerala Section

Resource Person and Workshop Organizer, Internet Governance Forum (IGF 2012), Baku, Azerbaijan

Director,ICFOSS

Solutions Sales Manager with Autonomy, an HP company. Expertise in conceptualizing and delivering complex & innovative IT solutions around “unstructured” data such as internally-generated documents or databases, captured hard-disk images, open-source information, data from other departments, broadcast media, CCTV footage, or audio intercept.

Solutions Sales Manager, Autonomy,
an HP Company

C N Shashidhar is a CISA, CRISC, ISO 27k1 LI, MBA & MCom with around 25 years of experience. He is a Global Information Security Adviser at IBM. He is also the Treasurer & Director Membership of ISACA Bangalore & also a founder member of India Honeynet.org. He has presented at various security conferences including C0C0N 2010 & 2011. His interests are Cloud Security, Cyberwarfare & Honeynets.

Global Information Security Adviser, IBM
India

Sneh Vyas is a security researcher currently pursuing M.E IT System & Network Security from Gujarat Technological University. He has more than 2 years of experience in maintaining Datacenters of MGNREGA, BRGF at Dahod District which is solely managed by GSWAN (Gujarat State Wide Area Network) and NIC (National Informatics Center)in the state of Gujarat. He was constantly involved in configuring and managing whole GSWAN network in Dahod District during this period and can successfully manage L2, L3 Switches and CISCO aggregation Routers. He was also involved in the field of teaching as Assistant Professor in Ganpat University, Gujarat. His area of expertise is in managing LAN design/configuration & implementation with CISCO equipments, port configuration in Routers and Switches. He has professional experience in the activities like port forwarding, implement static Routing protocol like OSPF, RIP, BGP. His interest areas are finding security vulnerability using reverse engineering, Proxy Servers, Firewalls, IDS/IPS.

Sreenarayan A is currently working as an Information Security Consultant at Paladion Networks. He is the principal researcher in the Mobile Application Security Team at Paladion, having developed Paladion's Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Gray Box and Code Review checklists, and has trained 30+ engineers to detect security flaws in mobile applications. He has found flaws in leading Mobile-based financial applications and helped the respective organizations fix those vulnerabilities. He has authored many white papers on information security and network-related research, which have been published in multiple information security magazines and international journals such as Hacki9 and Palisade magazines among others. He has conducted technical trainings and provided Experts Talk about various platforms for multiple banking & finance customers and reputed institutes in the Mumbai University. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Security Analyst (ECSA) and Certified Hacking Forensics Investigator (CHFI).

Mobile Security Consultant and Service Developer,
Paladion Networks

Sunil Varkey has 17 years of IT experience with 12 years in Information Assurance domain. He is currently Head of Information Security at Idea Cellular and prior to this he was with Barclays, GE, Genpact & SABB (HSBC Group Bank) in US, Middle East and India. He is CISSP, GSNA, CIPP/US, CISA, CGEIT, CRISC, ABCP, ITIL-SM(Red Badge) certified and also serves in the Education Advisory Board of International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

Head: Information Security, IDEA Cellular Ltd
India

His career started with Simon Carves where he was involved in construction of a refinery, a fertilizer plant an oil and gas terminal and a boiler. After 5 years with Simon Carves, he joined Det Norske Veritas (DNV) as a Field Engineer for project inspections. Following the introduction of ISO 9000 and its certification, he was one of the pioneers and a prime driver of the new concept of managing businesses. He headed the certification operations of DNV covering Middle East, South and South East Asia with countries starting from Egypt, through Middle East, Iran, India and its neighbors, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. He later headed the internal global business process re-engineering project as Director. After completing 25 years with DNV he joined British Standards Institution(BSI) in July 2006 as the Managing Director for India. He continues to help the Indian industry with the latest standards based management approach that includes Business Continuity Management, Energy Management and more recently Risk management, and he is one of the few experts in this field, having practiced Risk Management in organizations for over 15 years. He has created the BSI’s global courses on Risk Management.

MD, British Standards Institution

Vineet Kumar is Chief Technology Officer at Jharkhand Police; Head at Cyber Defence Research Centre (CDRC), Govt of Jharkhand and a Member at Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS), Jharkhand. He has been invited to many prestigious information security events including World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) 2006, Marcus Evans conference, Hacktrix 2007 etc. He has also been guest lecturer to various instituitions and academias all over India.

Chief Technology Officer, Jharkhand Police
India