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Alok Joshi was chief of Research and Analysis Wing, the external intelligence agency of India. Hailing from Lucknow, he graduated from Jawaharlal Nehru University, (JNU), completed his postgraduation in political science and then joined the Indian Police Service (IPS), Haryana cadre in 1976. He rose through his ranks and later in 2005 became the joint director of Intelligence Bureau, the internal intelligence agency of India. In 2010 he was appointed as a Special Secretary at R&AW. He took over as Secretary (R) on 30 December 2012. Joshi and Amitabh Mathur of 1977 batch of Manipur and Tripura, IPS cadre were the main contendants for the top spot. Mathur had joined R&AW in 1981 and switched from IPS to RAS cadre. However the Prime Minister-headed Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (India) chose Joshi over Mathur because of his seniority. After retirement, Shri. Alok Joshi was brought in as Senior Advisor to the National Technical Research Organisation and currently appointed as its Chairman.

John Matherly is an Internet cartographer, speaker and founder of Shodan, the world’s first search engine for the Internet-connected devices. Printers, webcams, power plants and more have been found over time and the revelations have changed the way security and privacy on the Internet is perceived. Shodan is already seeing TVs, cell phones, traffic lights, industrial controls, infrastructure plants and various home appliances pop up in the search results. And more of these Internet-of-Things devices are added each day as the world is becoming more connected. For the past years, he has been featured in the news on CNBC, CNN Money, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Forbes, Time and many others.

S.D. Shibulal (Shibu) along with N.R. Narayana Murthy and five others, founded Infosys in 1981. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Infosys from 2011 – 2014. Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Shibu served as Chief Operating Officer from 2007 - 2011. Shibu is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals and the Co-chair of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) National Committee on IT, ITES and e-Commerce. He is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Information and Communication Technology Academy of Kerala and a member of the Board of Trustees of Boston University. He is also a member of the Metropolitan College Dean’s Advisory Board of Boston University. Shibu is a member of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council (SIBAC), The Leaders Council of the International Business Leaders Forum and the Global Corporate Governance Forum’s Private Sector Advisory Group. Shibu holds a master’s degree in computer science from Boston University, US, and a master’s degree in physics from the University of Kerala, India.

Child Abuse And Sexual Crime Group State Crime Command, Queensland Police Service, Australia; Polcyb Director

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, community policing, domestic violence, equity employment, 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”.

Mr. Lee Hwee Hsiung is the Head of Department of Cyber Security Professional Development (CSPD), CyberSecurity Malaysia, an agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI). Mr. Lee has more than 25 years of experience in the Security and Technopreneur environment, involved in the setup and commissioning of technology-based organizations in the area of training, e-learning, strategic business development and cyber security. Graduated with a Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Microelectronics from the University College of Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur and Campbell University, North Carolina USA. He obtained a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Malaysia Multimedia University. He is a lead auditor for ISO/IEC 27001, an associates of Business Continuity Professional and a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). He was awarded as an Honoree for Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements (ISLA) in the category of Managerial Professional for Information Security Project(s) on July 26 2012 in Tokyo, Japan and the recipient of “One of the Most Outstanding Chief Security Officers (CSO) in the ASEAN region 2012” by the CSO ASEAN Awards 2012 organized by IDG. In the area of Cyber Security, he established the national cyber security capacity building portal for Malaysia – the Cyberguru.my and the lead architect for the national cyber security professional certification scheme known as the Global Accredited Cybersecurity Education (ACE) Scheme. Currently, the Scheme is being deployed in OIC member countries to attain mutual recognition in the area of cyber security workforce, cyber security professionals, trainers, professional training programs and cyber security professional examinations. He participated in public events as presenter, co-organizer and column writer and a contributor to newspapers and business magazines. He is also a regular keynote speakers and guest lecturers for private organizations such as Alibaba.com, IBM, SAP, Oracle, IDC and Multimedia University.

Dr. Ajeet Bajpai has over 38 years of rich operational experience in the field of Information Technology, Information Warfare and Cyber. A Fellow of IETE, he is an alumnus of IIT, Delhi and a scholar from Cranfield University. He has authored numerous Articles, Papers, Technical Reports and Doctrines and has received several awards for his academic excellence, innovation and research work. He is a member of several Apex Committees on Cyber Security at the national level and is a visiting faculty to premier academic and research institutions. He is presently the Director General, National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC).

Raymond H. Velez is currently the Regional Manager, Global Product Protection, Eli Lilly Asia and is responsible for anti-counterfeiting operations for the Asia Pacific Region from Australian-New Zealand to Pakistan. Eli Lilly and Company is a leading innovation-driven corporation committed to developing best-in-class and first-in-class pharmaceutical products that help people live longer, healthier and more active lives. 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 and has 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.

As Counsel for International Consumer Protection at the US Federal Trade Commission, Betsy promotes cross border coordination on consumer protection cases, including mass marketing fraud, imposter fraud and other threats conveyed through phone, internet and postal channels. Prior to her current position, Betsy oversaw law enforcement activity on a range of consumer fraud issues, directed the development of the FTC’s Identity Theft Program, and coordinated the collection and analysis of intelligence.

Lokanath Behara is an Indian Police Service officer. He is the current State Police Chief & Director General of Police of the Kerala State Police. He was the former Director of Vigilance in the state of Kerala. Behera was appointed to the IPS in 1985 and is a part of the Kerala cadre. He started his career as an ASP, in Kerala and also served as Commissioner of Police in Kochi and DCP in Thiruvananthapuram. He was then appointed as SP and later DIG in the Central Bureau of Investigation. He was involved in the investigation of sensitive cases such as the Graham Staines murder case, Purulia arms drop case, Mumbai serial blast case, etc

Mr. Nandkumar Saravade is currently working as CEO, Reserve Bank Information Technology Pvt Ltd (ReBIT). ReBIT has been set up as a fully owned subsidiary of RBI for technology management and cybersecurity for RBI’s systems and the Indian banking sector. Till May 2016, he worked as CEO, Data Security Council of India, a think-tank specialising in cybersecurity policy research and advocacy. During 2013-15, he was an independent security professional and cybercrime expert, advising Ernst & Young and ICICI Bank. Earlier, he worked as Director, Citibank India, heading Security, Investigation and Vigilance. During 2008-2011, he worked as General Manager, Financial Crime Prevention Group, ICICI Bank, where he looked after fraud risk assessment and controls reviews, application screening and vendor due diligence, transaction monitoring, investigations and regulatory reporting and compliance.

Senior Risk Management professional with 20 years of experience across industry and consulting organizattions. Recently moved to Wells Fargo to build and scale-up Enterprise Information Security Services function. Earlier worked as regional lead of the Finance Transformation Practice at Deloitte and built post-merger integration services. Served global Finance organizations to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of Finance and Treasury Operations. Specialized in post merger transition / integration / change management in Banking sector. Successsfully led global post merger transition projects across US, Europe, Asia and Carribean regions. Recognized as Subject Matter Specialist in Risk Management in a research paper presented at the American Accounting Association. 20 years of experience across Industries, predominantly in Banking, Consulting, Technology and Manufacturing Sectors of the Industry.

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.

Rajesh Hemrajani works as a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for IDFC bank. He has 25+ years of vast international experience in Information Security, Risk management and program management in BFSI, airlines and manufacturing industry verticals. He has worked with global banks e.g. RBS, Nomura, Lehman brothers prior to joining IDFC bank recently. He is passionate about information & Cyber security and always eager to learn and adopt new developments in digital & Cyber security space. Rajesh is a nature lover and also a fitness enthusiast, he has completed multiple half marathons and trail runs.

Senior Risk Management professional with 20 + years experience in banking. Experience includes IT deployment, Project Management, and Risk Management. Currently managing the IT and Non IT operational risks of the Bank and is the Chief Information Security Officer at Federal Bank.

Emmanuel Peter (EP) is the CISO & Apprentice Leader of Mu Sigma. He has been involved in Information Security at Mu Sigma for about 7 years and is responsible for, enabling core functions to effectively implement InfoSec policies & practices, spearheading new security initiatives for the company, interaction with clients related to - security requirements, contracts review, audits & compliance. He seizes opportunities to engage and evangelize good security practices within the organization. Peter joined Mu Sigma in 2008 as IT head and setup the company’s formal IT team. Before joining Mu Sigma, he worked with BEA Systems. In previous assignments, he has held several positions at HP, Compaq and Digital Equipment during his journey of more than 10 years in IT domain. Peter holds a Master degree in Sociology. When not at work, he enjoys traveling and appreciates music.

Amit Pradhan is the Senior Vice President (Technology Security), the Chief Privacy Officer & Chief Technology Security Officer at Vodafone India Limited. With close to two decades of experience, he has spent most of his time in the areas of transforming projects, security operations, IT advisory, technology audits and consulting. His specializes in establishing and managing security organizations and security transformation programs like operating Cyber Defence Centre, managing Cyber Intelligence, Forensics and Business continuity framework. Prior to Vodafone, he worked as the CISO for Cipla Limited (a pharmaceutical giant in India). He has also worked with KPMG, Wipro Consulting and The Royal Bank of Scotland during his earlier years. Along with his regular work at Vodafone he actively contributes various government forums like CERT-IN, DOT, COAI, ISPA and works closely with National Botnet cleaning centre. He is recognized in the industry for his security initiatives and programs and his organization as advisor and security strategist. He frequently speaks at domestic and international forums on security and is a member of various Security Advisory Council in the country. He has been recognized and awarded the “Top CISO award” by various forum.

Mr. Sawkar was born in Bangalore, India. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona in 2000, and a Bachelors of Arts with Honors in English Literature and Philosophy from Boston University in 1995. Prior to working for the FBI, Mr. Sawkar was an Assistant State’s Attorney for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Sawkar entered on duty as a Special Agent (SA) of the FBI on April 20, 2003. From 2003 through 2013, SA Sawkar was assigned to the Los Angeles Division, Long Beach Resident Agency, where he worked Counterterrorism and White Collar matters. SA Sawkar also had collateral responsibilities as an undercover certified employee (UCE) and as a Firearms Instructor (FI). In 2012, SA Sawkar served as the Acting Supervisor of the Long Beach Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) for one year. As a field agent, SA Sawkar specialized in HUMINT operations both domestic and international. SA Sawkar utilized these experiences while deployed to Iraq in 2008 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. From 2013 through 2015, SSA Sawkar served as an Assistant Legal Attaché in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. During that time, SSA Sawkar also opened the Legat sub-office in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Legat Sawkar reported to New Delhi as the Legal Attaché on June 28, 2015.

Experienced IT Infrastructure & Security professional with over 16 years of work experience, successful and steady career growth in reputed organizations viz., Sify Limited, Primus Telecommunications India Limited, Wipro Infotech, Gateway Terminals India, PCS Technology Limited, Fullerton India Credit Company Limited and currently with TransUnion CIBIL Limited. Currently Heading the IT Infrastructure & Security Operations for CIBIL. Leads the Digital Cyber Forensic team of CIBIL for investigating any Data Breach or attempts. Succeeded in positioning the Technology function as a Business Transformation initiative, with major contributions in Security technology implementations focusing on protection, prevention, monitoring and alerting. Lead end-to- end design, implementation and operationalization of security infrastructure at TransUnion CIBIL Limited. Key achievements in the current and earlier stints include setting up of the complete IT Infrastructure and security operations including SOC from the scratch for two start up MNCs in India viz., Gateway Terminals India and Fullerton India. Implemented Virtualization on Open platform, which was the first of its kind in India. Automated the Business Continuity by building robust DR setup with seamless switch over from Primary site to DR site. He is also associated with Cyberdome ranked as Elite Member, a Public Private Partnership initiative started by Kerala Police to combat Cyber Threats. He holds a Engineering Degree in Computer Science & Engineering and Management Degree in IT. Certified Ethical Hacker, Prominent Speakers and contributes inputs to many security forums for combating cyber threats. Recognized as Most Innovative CIO’s of India, Top 100 CISO’s & CSO’s consistently over last 3 years by various media groups.

Dr. Parry Aftab is a digital privacy/security lawyer and advises industry and nations on policy/best practices. A founding member of Facebook's safety advisory bd, she sits on MTV's public affairs advisory board and runs WiredSafety, Stop Cyberbullying and Cybersafety India as an unpaid volunteer. Her consulting firm WiredTrust advises trusted brands and well-funded start-ups. She recently helped found the US Cybersecurity Corps She was identified as "the leading expert in cybercrime in the United States" by the Boston Herald. US Congress honored her and UNESCO appointed her to head its Internet crimes against children initiative for the US. Parry served on the Internet Safety Technical Task Force (ISTTF) and NTIA's Online Safety Technology Working Group (OSTWG) to advise Congress.

Shomiron is a highly experienced Intrusion Analyst, and has been building threat detection systems for more than a decade. He founded NETMONASTERY (NM) at the end of 2002, and set out to deliver quality attack detection products and services to its customers. Today NM serves the largest customers in the financial, telecom, media and e-commerce markets, with its geographical reach and presence spanning the globe. NETMONASTERY has been named Cool Vendor by Gartner in Security for Technology and Service Providers, 2014. From his early years Shomiron has focussed on NM's core values and continues to be hands- on with his technology. Over the years he has worked intensively on, DDoS mitigation, Traffic Anomaly, Collaborative Detection Systems, Trace Tools, BigData, Real-time FishBowling, Multi-layer Correlation, Reporting Technologies, Audit Systems, Frameworks, Parallel Processing and Measurable Security. Specializations: Intrusion Analysis, Therat Intelligence, SIEM, DDoS Defense Strategies, Intrusion Prevention, Incident Handling, Multi-layer Correlation and BigData

Dr. Rajiv Pandey Senior Member IEEE is a Faculty at Amity Institute of Information Technology, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow Campus India. He possesses a diverse back ground experience of around 30 years to include 15 years of Industry and 13 years of academic. His research interests include the contemporary technologies as Semantic Web Provenance, Cloud and Big Data, and Data Analytics. He has published more than 30 research papers in Scopus, and other science indexed journals of repute. He has been Session chairs, Technical committee member for various IEEE and Elsevier conferences. He has been on technical committees of various government and private universities. He is intellectually involved in supervising Doctorate Research Scholars and Post graduate Students. He is also an active contributor in professional bodies like IEEE, IET and Lucknow Management Association. He is also a member of Machine Intelligence Research Labs.

A technology evangelist with wide range of agile experience, starting from the days of embedded systems, moving to web & object-oriented development, followed by cyber security and then to the latest trend of cloud computing & machine learning. He is a Certified Ethical Hacking & Countermeasures Expert (EHCE) by US-Council and has been specialising in diverse security research areas like private TOR networks, Security of Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Virtualization & Hardware security, Privacy in Internet of Things (IOT) etc. Currently, he is holding the role of Alt. CISO for Electronics Corporation of India limited (ECIL), a Public Sector Enterprise under Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India. He is accountable & responsible for security strategy planning, policy implementation, management of risks & threats, independent compliance reviews and implementation of new security products & technologies. He has been a recipient of the prestigious ‘Security Leader of the Year Award - 2016’ by Data Security Council of India (DSCI), a NASSCOM initiative and has won many other national accolades like - Winner, Top 100 InfoSec Maestros Awards 2016 - Elite CISO Finalist, NullCon BlackShield Awards 2016 - Winner, Dynamic CISO Security Excellence Awards 2015 - IBM Blue Scholar 2012 etc. He is actively involved in delivering Guest-Lectures & presenting Research-Papers at several national conferences viz. Global IOT Conclave, National Cyber Safety & Security Standards (NCSSS) Summit, CSI Tech Talks etc. He brings a distinguished combination of technology acumen with business insights & experience in the Cyber Security industry and has been featured in leading industry Journals, including Computer Magazines like Electronic For You, Cyber Diligence etc.

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A specialist in cyber law and legal aspects of cyber security, Vishal has gained diverse knowledge through his assignments with Government organizations, Corporates and education institutions. Vishal was a member of the Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012 -17) Government of India – Working Group on Cyber Laws and Legal Framework and Working Group on Cyber Security. Vishal chaired the subgroup which was constituted under the main working group responsible for suggesting the emerging legal framework towards issues on the Internet, intellectual property law and Internet governance. As part of his earlier assignments he has worked on Government of India eSign Project and UIDAI: Aadhaar. In the year 2002, Vishal engineered Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Hon’ble High Court of Bombay for appointment of adjudicating officers to decide the fate of multi crore cybercrime cases in India. The PIL also resulted in the appointment of Chairman and the establishment of Cyber Appellate Tribunal at New Delhi.

Rohit Srivastwa is a well known security evangelist and founder of India's first ever hackers conference and community called ClubHack. He has an expertise in cyber security and IT infrastructure management. Rohit is actively involved advising several military agencies, law enforcement personnel, media, corporate and Government bodies in these fields. Since Jan 2012 Rohit is awarded by prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for six consecutive years in the domain of “Enterprise Security”. In June 2016, one of his company got acquired by Quick Heal Technologies where now he is heading "Cyber Education and Services" vertical. In the international cyber domain, the most recent and valuable responsibility on Rohit is of a liaison member at FIRST.org which is a consortium of CERTs from across the globe.

Ravinder Pal Singh is a Senior Industry Consultant and Expert in Digital Transformation, IoT and Smart Connected economies. Ravinder has more than 20 years’ experience in the business & technology consulting, Enterprise Architecture and solutions mainly in the areas of Industry vertical solutions (IoT, Smart Cities, Real Estate, Healthcare, Education, Media, Manufacturing, etc.), Data center, Collaboration and network technology Solutions. Ravinder has managed several roles mainly in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture & design, Project & Program management, Service delivery and services Management. A Certified project manager (PMP), IT Services Management (ITIL) & Enterprise Architect (TOGAF), he has extensive experience in Technology infrastructure for effective Workplace, IT service management based on ITIL framework, Information security processes (ISO27001/BS7799), quality process compliance (ISO9000), LEED certification and quality processes improvement areas based on six Sigma and DMAIC foundations. Ravinder has consulted and managed projects with diverse streams of segments like govt, manufacturing, R&D, Media, IT & ITES, Telcos and Retail customers. He has been part of empaneled consultants for India Smart City Mission and Delhi Mumbai Infrastructure Corridor (DMIC) projects, he has consulted on Smart City projects in Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Korea and Singapore. He has 2 patent applications submitted in the areas of Data center and Security. Ravinder is a known thought leader on Smart Cities, IoT and Digital Transformation, he is a regular speaker in national and international forums around Internet of Everything and Smart Communities. Some of his articles have been published in leading publications.

Saikat Datta is a taking over as the India Editor for Asia Times, a pan-Asian publication widely viewed across the globe. He is also a Policy Director with the Centre for Internet & Society, India. He is an award winning journalist for over 20 years as an editor and an investigative reporter with several news organisations. He has been a defence correspondent with The Indian Express, an assistant editor with the Outlook magazine, Resident Editor with DNA, member of the Editorial Board with Zee News and Editor (National Security) with Hindustan Times. Saikat's investigative reporting has been awarded the International Press Institute award (2007), the Jagan Phadnis Memorial award (2008) and the National RTI award for investigative journalism (2010). He is also the author of India's Special Forces (2013), a seminal book on the history and the future of India's special operations capabilities.He writes regularly in various publications and his research papers have been published by the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS), Centre for Air Power Studies (CAPS) and the National Security Guards (NSG), among others. He regularly conducts training sessions on hostage rescue operations for Mumbai Police's crack anti-terrorism outfit, Force One. His core areas of research are around counter-terrorism, intelligence, cybersecurity and the use of special forces in strategic roles. He has also worked for two years in the corporate sector as Vice President and Head of De-risking Strategies for Reliance Industries, working on cybersecurity and counter terrorism projects. He was also a Consulting Editor with www.Scroll.in and a consultant on cybersecurity with IIM, Bangalore. He has also been a Lead Researcher & Senior Fellow with the Internet Democracy Project and a Visiting Fellow with the Observer Research Foundation's National Security programme.

Tarun is a self-made entrepreneur and business executive with a decade long outstanding track record in building, growing and leading high-performing, startups in India. Currently involved full time in Innefu, a research oriented information security group and a developer of niche and innovative cyber security solutions including Prophecy Big Data Analytics with pattern matching, fuzzy logic and Predictive Intelligence and AuthShield – Multifactor Authentication. Prior to this, he co-founded two companies, Appin Knowledge Solutions and Appin Security Group that received a combined valuation of over INR 140 million by Valpro, a leading PE firm. While Appin knowledge solutions provided training and consultation to corporate and educational institutes in niche technologies such as Information Security, Nanotechnology and Embedded Robotics, Appin security group provided information security services for corporate customers across the globe. Credited as an original thinker, Tarun has been featured along with eminent entrepreneurs like Vishnu Dussad and R.S. Pawar in the book “Make the Move”. A prolific writer and speaker, he has co authored numerous books on Nanotechnology, Embedded Robotics and addressed more than hundred seminars and workshops at forums such as Indian Infosec consortium, Philippines CERT, IIT Delhi, Delhi University, Manipal Learning Centers among others. He is a much sought after speaker at Ground Zero, Cocoon and other security conferences across the globe. A security expert, Tarun also created the entire framework for “MASE - Information Security and Ethical Hacking” course launched by Manipal Group.

20+ years of experience in design, implementation and management of Information Security Solutions and compliance requirement. Currently working a Regional Manager - Systems Engineering in Fortinet, based out of Bangalore, India. Responsible for leading the regional Systems Engineering Team, understanding customer's Information Security Requirement and Architecting Solution using Next Generation Firewall, UTM, Sandboxing and AP, Responsible for New Product/Technology Introduction and leveraging the Support Infrastructure like TAC, Professional Services and Trainings for end to end security offerings from Fortinet range of Products.

Mohit Puri has 18 years of comprehensive experience with a unique blend of sales and presales and currently heads up the Presales at Sophos Technologies Pvt. Ltd for India/SAARC. He has strong experience handling SMB markets through distribution channels as well as direct large enterprise account management. He has been instrumental in building a multi-tier distribution model across the India subcontinent and Middle East market in different companies. Prior to this, he spent 4 years as the Country Manager for WatchGuard Technologies. He is an active speaker in Industry and channel events on Cybersecurity. He holds a Bachelor degree in Engineering and Master Degree in Information Technology.

An accomplished security professional with over a decade’s experience of providing specialist application and infrastructure consulting services at the highest levels to companies, governments, and organizations around the world. Deep experience of working with clients to provide innovative security insight that truly reflects the commercial and operational needs of the organization from strategic advice to testing and analysis to incident response and recovery. An active participant in the international security community and conference speaker both individually, as chapter lead of the Bangalore chapter of OWASP the global organization responsible for defining the standards for web application security and as a co-founder of NULL India’s largest open security community. Akash runs Appsecco a company focused on Application Security.

Riyaz Walikar is a Web Application Pentester, Security evangelist and researcher. He has been active in the security community for the better part of the last 10 years. He has been actively involved with the Bangalore OWASP and null chapter for the last 7 years and is one of the OWASP and null Bangalore chapter leads. He is actively involved with Vulnerability Research in popular Web Applications and Network aware services and has disclosed several security issues in popular software like Apache Archiva, Openfire, Joomla!, EJabberd, .NET Script Injection Bypass and has had luck with finding vulnerabilities with popular web applications like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Cisco, Symantec, Mozilla, PayPal, Ebay, Apigee, Yahoo, Adobe, Tumblr, Pinterest etc. for which he is on the Hall of Fame for most of these services. He has also been a speaker and trainer at several security conferences including OWASP AppsecUSA 2012, BlackHat Abu Dhabi 2012, Las Vegas 2015, EU 2015, nullcon 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017, DefCon Las Vegas 2016 and c0c0n 2011,2013,2015 and 2016. His technical interests lie with programming, bug bounty, malware analysis, breaking web applications, playing CTFs, researching devices that fall under the Internet of Things category and penetration testing networks exposed to the Internet. When he is not writing/breaking code, you can find him dabbling in photography, stargazing, playing football, reading or fishing.

Manas Pratim Sarma is Senior Security Specialist at United Aerospace Technology. He has 5 years of experience in Cyber Security Research and Development area Application security, Vulnerability Research and a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). He is currently working on IoT and cloud security implementation. He is also involved in the security conference like NullCon, HITB. His technical interests in programming, bug bounty, CTF. He also provided Ethical Hacking training in reputed engineering college in India.

Sandesh is an Information Security professional with a deep affinity towards Software Security. He currently works as a Managing consultant, APAC at Cigital Asia Pvt Ltd (now a part of Synopsys). Apart from leading the delivery of various AppSec engagements, he also helps Cigital's clients mature their Software Security (AppSec) program.

Ashwath is currently working as an Associate Principal Consultant at Cigital Asia Pvt Ltd (now a part of Synopsys), Bangalore. He was previously working as a Security Engineer at Microsoft Corp. Ashwath has presented at IW school, IAF and at Nullcon 2017. He is interested in red teaming, threat modeling, web application pentesting and architecture review.

Prajwal Panchmahalkar is a lead security engineer at VMware Inc., He has contributed to public security research and has been the Development Lead for Matriux since 2009. In the past he was a Research Assistant at Texas Tech University working on Security of Critical Infrastructure and Smart Grid Energy Systems, with journal published on Elsevier. A Finalist for America's Information Security Leadership Award 2012 (AISLA) by (ISC)2. Previously Prajwal was a speaker at BSidesLV and GrrCon. He was a chapter lead for n|u, Hyderabad an open security community. Prajwal holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Texas Tech University at Lubbock

Bhavin B. Bhansali is a cyber security evangelist with over 20 years of combined IT and Information Security work experience. He has recently Co-Founded a specialised cyber security consulting firm - ProgIST Solutions. Bhavin has a BFSI work experience of more than 14 years and was a deputy to the CISO in the Information Security Group of ICICI Bank. Bhavin was responsible for all key areas of information & cyber security including governance, strategy, incident & vulnerability management and security awareness. Prior to joining ICICI Bank, he was part of the Business Continuity and Risk Management practice of Wipro Consulting. He has played a key role in conceptualising, architecting, implementing and monitoring of various information and cyber security controls including anti-APT solutions, security analytics and threat intelligence systems, active defense and honey pot systems, DMARC anti-phishing framework, data leakage prevention systems, data rights management mechanisms, vulnerability assessment & penetration testing etc. He has also been awarded with several IT and Information security certifications such as CISA, SANS GSEC, MCSE, CCNA and ISO 27001 lead auditor.

Samit Anwer is a Web and Mobile Application pentester and researcher. He has been active in the security community since the last 3 years soon after completing his Master's degree from IIIT, Delhi in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing. He is an active member of the Null Bangalore chapter and has spoken on various security topics. He is actively involved with vulnerability research in popular Web and Mobile apps and has responsibly disclosed several security issues with Google Cloud Print API, XSS filter evasion on IE 11/MS Edge, code execution on Microsoft Windows 10, and buffer overflows on MS Edge/IE 11. He currenlty works for Citrix R&D India Pvt. Limited, Bangalore as a Security researcher. His technical interests lie in using static program analysis techniques to mitigate security and performance issues on mobile/web apps, breaking web/mobile apps, and researching on cutting edge authentication and authorization mechanisms. When he is not breaking apps, you can find him occupied with outdoor sports, on a food spree or traveling.

Rushikesh is a security analyst. Having more than six years of experience under his belt, his assignments have always been pointed towards reducing the state of insecurity for information. His research papers were accepted at NCACNS 2013, nullcon 2014, HITCON 2014, Defcamp 2014, BruCON 2015, DEFCON 24, BruCON 2016 and x33fcon 2017. Being an avid CTF player, for him solace is messing up with packets, frames and shell codes.

Have been a security engineer for Devops for a year.Have experience in web,mobile and infra-structure pen-testing

Jayesh Singh Chauhan is a security professional with more than 5 years of experience in the security space. In past, he has been part of security teams of PayPal, PwC and currently works as the senior security engineer for Sprinklr. He has authored OWASP Skanda, RFID_Cloner and CSRF PoC generator and has presented in c0c0n 2013, 2015, GES 2014 and Ground Zero 2015. He is the project leader for OWASP Skanda and leads the NULL bangalore chapter

Furqan Ahmed Khan received his M.tech. degree in Software Engineering from Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India in 2014.He has worked extensively in the area of automation in cyber security and has co-authored 2 international Journals in area of web application security. His recent projects include "PTO" - "A Multi Tool framework for automation of Network Penetration testing" .He has got development experience across multiple platforms including Java ,JSP, Struts ,Asp.Net MVC ,Python ,Django .His research interests align with web application security and Machine Learning applications in area of cyber security. He has previously worked as a project scientist in an R&D project supported by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal on a project titled "Development of tool for detection of XML based Injection vulnerabilities in web applications."Currently, he is employed as a Senior Security Researcher at Paladion Networks

Shobha Rani J has spent over 17 years on various information technology disciplines, focusing primary on enterprise application development and consultation. Over the course of her career, Shobha has held increasingly engineering and management roles. As an information security practitioner, Shobha has extensive experience in Public Key Infrastructure, Web services security, Identity and Access Management, Information and Event Management, Compliance Assessment, Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Assessment, GRC application customizations and integrated security tools building enterprise solutions. She has managed all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle delivering world class products. Shobha is CISSP and CISM certified, holds Masters in Software Systems from BITS pilani. Shobha has worked with Wipro, Oracle, RSA, Accenture in the past and proud to part of Walmart Labs now.

Vanshit is an IT security Consultant & a passionate IT security Researcher with more than 5 years of experience and possesses knowledge in most aspects of IT security testing and implementation. He is an academician and a thought leader who has contributed in raising the bar of understanding on cyber security and ethical hacking among students of many colleges and universities in India. He is a voracious public speaker, delivers speech on Improving IT Security, Insider Threat, Social Engineering, Wireless forensics, and Exploitation Techniques. In his current profile, he leads team super specialists in cyber security to protect various clients from Cyber Security threats and network intrusion by providing necessary solutions and services. Areas of expertise include Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration testing, Exploit writing, Metasploit expert usage during penetration testing, Threat Analytics and Modelling, Wireless Penetration Testing and Exploitation, Insider Threat Management

Information Security Evangelist with experience of 5+ years in information security. Currently working with Royal Philips as Technical Specialist - Product Security. Interested in new trends in security such as hacking IoT, breaking into Embedded hardware, fuzzing the wireless protocols and Health Care Security. Active contributor for security communities. Apart from Hacking interested in shooting by Camera, Writing Poetry and any kind of art.

Siddharth Anbalahan is currently working as the R&D-Practice head of Paladion Networks .Siddharth has over 10 years of IT security experience with a specialization in application security. He has spoken at various OWASP conferences and has co-authored the book “Application Security in ISO 27001 Environment. He has successfully developed robust application security programs for many provider and user organizations. He has been copresenter at OWASP APAC 2009 and 2013

Sneha works as Security Consultant with Payatu Software Labs LLP. Her areas of interest lies in web application and mobile application security and fuzzing. She has discovered various application flaws within open source applications such as PDFLite, Jobberbase, Lucidchart and more. She has spoken and provided training at GNUnify, FUDCon, DefCamp, DefCon, BSidesLV and Nullcon. She is also the chapter lead for null - Pune.

Swaroop Yermalkar works as a Senior Security Engineer at Philips. His work includes threat modelling, security research, assessment of IoT devices, healthcare products, web applications, networks, Android, and iOS applications. Swaroop is an OWASP iGoat Project leader (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_iGoat_Tool_Project) and one of the top security researchers worldwide who works with Cobalt.io (https://app.cobalt.io/swaroopsy) and Synack.inc. Swaroop has given talks and training at various security conferences, such as Hacks in Taiwan (HITCON), Europeansec, GroundZero, c0c0n, 0x90, DefconLucknow, and GNUnify. He has been acknowledged by Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Dropbox, Evernote, Simple Banking, iFixit, and many more for reporting high-severity security issues in their mobile apps. He is an active member of NULL, an open security community in India, and is a contributor to the regular meetups and Humla sessions at the Pune, Bengaluru chapter. He holds various information security certifications, such as OSCP, OSWP, SLAE and CEH. Swaroop has written articles for clubHACK magazine and is the author of An Ethical Guide to Wi-Fi Hacking and Security and Learning iOS Penetration Testing (Packt Publishing).

Arpit is into information security consulting from 7 years and has worked with major financial institutions, ecommerce and telecom providers as a security auditor and penetration tester. He was also involved in audit and implementations of PCIDSS, ISO27K1 & HIPPA.

Ronald Michael is an Infosec Enthusiast.He works as a Security Analyst and has about 6 years of experience in Infosec, with focused expertise in Web Application Security and Network Security. Once he got the taste of InfoSec, he earned CEH, GWAPT and OSCP certification and never looked back and continues to be hungry for more. In past, he has been part of security teams of DeLL, Microsfot and currently works at Akamai.He has been involved in snuffing out attacks for prominent clientele. Security is not just a job, but a passion for him and his unconditional love for it continues to grow on

Rahul (c0dist) is a threat researcher by profession, with keen interest in information security, honeypots, human behavior and everything else related to computers. He has co-authored a spam honeypot (SHIVA) and is a contributor to the Detux Linux sandbox. Rahul co-developed SHIVA honeypot as a GSoC intern for The Honeynet Project. He was also among the Top 30 finalists in Nullcon 2015's EMC Defenders' League CTF. He has recently been credited for CVE-2016-8856 (Foxit Reader LPE).

Ajin Abraham is a Security Engineer with 7+ years of experience in Application Security including 4 years of Security Research. He is passionate on developing new and unique security tools. Some of his contributions to Hacker's arsenal include OWASP Xenotix XSS Exploit Framework, Mobile Security Framework (MobSF), Xenotix xBOT, NodeJsScan etc to name a few. He has been invited to speak at multiple security conferences including ClubHack, NULLCON, OWASP AppSec Eu C&C, AsiaPac, BlackHat Europe, Hackmiami, Confidence, BlackHat US, BlackHat Asia, ToorCon, Ground Zero Summit, Hack In the Box, Hack In Paris, PHDays and c0c0n.

Shubham is an active Information Security researcher with 5+ years of experience in offensive and defensive security, with interests in defensive security and OSINT. His tool DataSploit (performs automated OSINT) is listed in ToolsWatch Top 10 Security Tools of 2016. He has given training, conducted numerous workshops and delivered talks at local security chapters and multiple conferences, including Black Hat Asia 2016 & 2017, BlackHat USA 2016, BlackHat EU 2016, Defcon24, Nullcon 2016, Null Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore chapters, IETF, etc. In his free time, he travels.

Apoorva is a security enthusiast and is currently working as Information security Analyst in pune, India. He loves to explore technicality of stuffs, understanding it and figuring out a way to break into it with of course less effort and pain. Most of his works include web and mobile security. He has a keen interest in exploring IOT devices because of it’s vast attack surface and popularity. Apart from Infosec, his areas of interests include adventures and exploring criminal psychology.

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An author, politician, and former international civil servant, Shashi Tharoor straddles several worlds of experience. Currently a second-term Lok Sabha MP representing the Thiruvananthapuram constituency and Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, he has previously served as Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. During his nearly three-decade long prior career at the United Nations, he served as a peacekeeper, refugee worker, and administrator at the highest levels, serving as Under-Secretary General during Kofi Annan’s leadership of the organisation. Dr. Tharoor is also an award-winning author of works of both fiction as well as non-fiction, with his fifteenth book due for release in December 2014. Born in London in 1956, Dr. Tharoor was educated in India and the United States, completing a PhD in 1978 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at the Tufts University. While there, he received the Robert B. Stewart Prize for Best Student and also helped found and served as the first Editor of the Fletcher Forum of International Affairs, a journal now in its 39th year. Dr. Tharoor was also awarded an honorary D.Litt by the University of Puget Sound and a Doctorate Honoris Causa in History by the University of Bucharest. In 1998 the World Economic Forum in Davos named him a “Global Leader of Tomorrow”. He is also a recipient of several awards that include a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India’s highest honour for overseas nationals. In 2012 the King of Spain awarded him the Encomienda de la Real Order Espanola de Carlos III. Among numerous other awards are one for "New Age Politician of the Year" from NDTV, the Hakim Khan Sur Award for National Integration, and the Priyadarshini Award for Excellence in Diplomacy.

Dr. Anja Kovacs directs the Internet Democracy Project in Delhi, India, which works for an Internet that supports free speech, democracy and social justice in India and beyond. Anja’s research and advocacy focuses especially on questions regarding freedom of expression, cybersecurity and the architecture of Internet governance. She has been a member of the of the Investment Committee of the Digital Defenders Partnership and of the Steering Committee of Best Bits, a global network of civil society members. She has also worked as an international consultant on Internet issues, including for the Independent Commission on Multilateralism, the United Nations Development Programme Asia Pacific and the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Mr. Frank La Rue, as well as having been a Fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore, India. Prior to focusing her work on the information society, Anja researched and consulted on a wide range of development-related issues. She has lectured at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, and Ambedkar University, Delhi, India, and has conducted extensive fieldwork throughout South Asia. She obtained her PhD in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia in the UK.

Scott Warren leads a team that specializes in cybersecurity, data privacy and digital data disclosures in Japan and Asia. He advises on digital compliance, eDiscovery and corporate data privacy for global and local corporations. He also has significant experience in compliance, intellectual property, litigation, dispute resolution and government regulatory and internal investigations. He has provided advice to global multinational corporations in the hi-tech, software, retail, healthcare, pharmaceutical, automotive, banking, trading, telecommunications and professional services industry. Scott started his career as a civil litigator in California and is experienced in all phases of disputes resolution, from pleadings through conducting jury trials. He moved to Japan in 1993 and wrote the “Japan Employers Handbook” for CCH, a large international publishing company. While general counsel at Sega Corporation, he handled various intellectual property issues, including licensing and anti-counterfeiting on infringers on every continent except Antarctica. He also oversaw their anti-competition and internal investigation issues. As senior attorney for Microsoft, Scott was responsible for the Xbox launch in Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. He was the head of anti-piracy for Xbox worldwide, and the head of anti-piracy for all Microsoft products in North Asia. He also served as the head of internet safety, working with law enforcement and governments to better protect the public from cyber threats. In this capacity, he became involved with The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace, a non-profit organization, where he serves on the executive board. He was the managing director of Kroll in Japan and regional managing director of Kroll Ontrack in Asia, providing clients with investigative, computer forensics and e-Discovery services. Later, he opened Epiq Systems in Japan and built the team and services in order to provide eDiscovery solutions to global organizations. Having served as in-house counsel for more than 13 years and having built two successful legal services companies in Asia, Scott brings a unique understanding, expertise and global perspective to his clients. Scott is also a Certified International Counter-Cyber Crime Professional.

Chief Information Security officer and Global Head of Information security compliance Group in Tech Mahindra which is 100 thousand people strong. He is a Postgraduate with 28 years of experience as programmer, network administrator, entrepreneur, head of business operations in his early career. Global certifications like CISM, CBCP, CEH, CPISI, DCPP, DCPLA and Lead Auditor for ISMS & BCM to credit the current role Led Tech Mahindra team to be the finalist thrice for “DSCI excellence national award for Information Security Implementation” and won it in 2012. Along with DSCI, represents the IT industry for ‘Cross border data flow dialogue’ with the European delegation. He is an active evangelist on Information Security and Business Resilience. He is also an avid lover of music, fine arts & sports.

Ben has years of experience in hacking stuff, writing code, and in his past was a red team leader, and technical leader as a CTO. Ben is now the group manager of Imperva-Incapsula's security research group, consisting of elite security researchers and developers - researching applications, traffic, protocols & trends in cyber threats.

As the Executive Director, Public Affairs & Strategic Engagements, Harish leads Cisco’s strategic engagement with National and State Governments of India on wide range of public policy issues that concerns Cisco in India - as an investor, globalization hub, business unit and as a corporate citizen. Harish plays a key role in Cisco’s India External Advisory Board which has oversight on transformational project and strategic issues on a 3-5 year horizon. Harish is based in New Delhi, India and is with Cisco since May 2007. An industry veteran of over 23 years, Harish actively participates in public policy forums in India and is the Chairman of CII’s Broadband committee and Co-Chair of USIBC’s digital task force, Executive Council Member of the Manufacturing Association of Information Technology, Co-chair of Corporate Social Responsibility committee of American Chamber of Commerce in India. Harish is also the co-founder of Public Affairs Forum of India. From 2003 to 2007, Harish was an Executive in the Governmental Program function of IBM specially focused providing leadership to IBM’s policy engagement with the Government of India on Innovation, Global Resourcing & HR issues. Prior to joining IBM, Harish worked for over 11 years with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) – India’s Premier Industry organization in a variety of roles. In his last role as CII’s Director for Information Technology, Harish worked with top CEOs of corporate India on issues affecting the IT & BPO industry.

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Pradeep Sharma has been working with RSA as Systems Engineer since October 2014 and is based in Bangalore, India. In this role, He helps customers to design and build advanced security operation center and improve their capability to discover and respond to advanced cyber threats. Pradeep started his career in 2005 as Network engineer with an ISP and acquired multiple roles in between where he acquired strong understanding about Networking, security and Cloud Computing before moving into Security Consultancy. He Holds a Bachelor Degree in Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering with active CISSP and other industry recognized certifications.

Dinesh is an Information Security, Management and Audit professional practising in the domain for over a decade. He is a specialist in cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, national security policy and strategy. He has worked with Government and Enterprise for Security Audits, Architecture, Strategy, Policy Definition, Planning, and re-Engineering. Staying current with technology, his present interest areas are Cyberwar, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Cyber Insurance, Cybercrime, Threat Intelligence, Managed Security and more. He enthusiastically supports security awareness and career mentoring activities and firmly believes that the use of common-sense may be the silver bullet for information security woes. A recognized authority in the cybersecurity domain and a regular speaker at conferences in India, Middle East and Africa. He is a regular writer, blogger and a hobbyist photographer. Principal Consultant: Pyramid Cyber Security & Forensics, Dubai & India Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, CISA, CISM, ITIL, ISO27001, Certificate holder in IPR and ERM

Meera Subbarao is the Director of Secure Development Practice who has over 20 years of experience in software development organizations in a variety of roles including Architect, Lead Developer, and Project Manager, and Security Architect. Meera has worked with a number of Fortune 250 companies and various government organizations. Meera has overseen and performed secure code reviews, static analysis implementations, architectural risk analysis, secure design reviews and threat modeling of systems built from a few thousand lines of code to systems containing tens of millions of lines of code (Java, JEE, .Net, Rails, and C/C++). Meera has authored OWASP Top Ten, C# Defensive Programming, Java/JEE Defensive Programming classes taught by Cigital. She is a certified instructor in Architectural Risk Analysis, Threat Modeling, Defensive Programming Generic, Defensive Programming Java EE, and Defensive Programming C#.

Experienced IT Infrastructure & Security professional with over 16 years of work experience, successful and steady career growth in reputed organizations viz., Sify Limited, Primus Telecommunications India Limited, Wipro Infotech, Gateway Terminals India, PCS Technology Limited, Fullerton India Credit Company Limited and currently with Credit Information Bureau (India) Limited. Currently Heading the IT Infrastructure & Security Operations for CIBIL. Leads the Digital Cyber Forensic team of CIBIL for investigating any Data Breach or attempts. Succeeded in positioning the Technology function as a Business Transformation initiative, with major contributions in Security technology implementations focusing on protection, prevention, monitoring and alerting. Lead end to end design, implementation and operationalization of security infrastructure at CIBIL. Key achievements in the current and earlier stints include setting up of the complete IT Infrastructure and security operations including SOC from the scratch for two start up MNCs in India viz., Gateway Terminals India and Fullerton India. Implemented Virtualization on Open platform, which was the first of its kind in India. Automated the Business Continuity by building robust DR setup with seamless switch over from Primary site to DR site. He holds a Engineering Degree in Computer Science & Engineering and Management Degree in IT. Certified Ethical Hacker, Prominent Speakers and contributes inputs to many security forums for combating cyber threats. Recognized as Most Innovative CIO's of India, Top 100 CISO's & CSO's consistently over last 3 years by various media groups.

Julie Gommes is cybersecurity consultant at DEVOTEAM, Iso/CEI27001 Lead Auditor. She's working on audit, risk analysis, security gap analysis and CISO support. Also, for several years she’s been studying the „jihadist“ movement and the rise of anonymisation and encryption techniques in the Middle East and is the author of a book about the revolutions in several of these countries /“Il était une fois les révolutions”/ (Ed. La Mouette, 2012).

# Advance Cyber Forensic Course, CDAC Trivandrum # CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) # RHCSA(Red Hat Certified System Administrator) # Cyber Crime Investigator (ASCL, Pune) # Heading a cyber Forensics lab # 16 years plus of service having rich experience in Information Warfare, Technology Management, HRM/HRD, Training & Development, Personnel Management and General Administration. # Practical experience in Communication and IT field. # Energetic go-getter with multi-tasking abilities and decisiveness in driving team efforts to achieve organizational goals. # Effective communicator with technology savvy and strong analytical & problem solving skills. # Experience in handling various HR processes (manpower planning, recruitment, selection, performance management and training & development) with strong interpersonal & leadership skills. # Excellent communication skills. # Specialization in network security , ethical hacking, Penetration testing and cyber forensics. # Cyber security and Cyber Security Audit

Ajit is a co-founder of "SecurityMonx", an initiative to create open source tools for Crypto-Auditing and Threat-Intel. He also co-founded “null - Open Security Community”. With 13+ years of experience in the Infosec domain, he specializes in Development and Testing of crypto-implementations. Over 5 years he has worked extensively on Crypto-Implementations for critical systems at Emerson & Symantec corporation. From last 3 years Ajit is providing consultation & training on Cryptography to Government/Defense officials, National Banks & Security professionals across the globe. He has been researching and speaking on security issues in crypto-implementations through Defcon-CnPV, Nullcon, Cocon & Ground Zero Summit and also at BlackHat. A hardcore volunteer and contributor through the community efforts of Null, Nullcon, BSidesLV, C0C0N, Ajit is also a Marathon Runner and Organizes "World Run By Hackers" during these conferences.

Tamaghna Basu “, co-founder/CTO of neoEYED Inc. He is a security researcher at heart and has been his main areas of research include Web app security and network pen‐testing, exploit development, incident handling and cyber forensic. Being a software developer earlier, he worked in python, java, .net, ruby etc. and various domains like finance, insurance, gaming etc. He also presented in other security conferences like NULLCON, C0C0N, OWASP, ISACA etc. and member of NULL, DSCI and other communities. He has accomplished various certifications like OSCP, GCIH, RHCE etc.”

Rahul has over 8 years of experience in security, research and product development. He has presented his papers in 28 different forums in 14 different countries. He is the founder and CTO of CloudSek a Machine learning based threat detection technology . Prior to founding Cloudsek he was a Sr Engineer at Citrix where he held the responsibility of making citrix products secure.

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Ajay Fuloria, is II year M Tech student from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has always been fascinated by technology. He has been active in the field of Cyber Security for past few years. He shifted his focus from web application security to radio communications when he realized the incredible power of Software Defined Radio to receive and transmit arbitrary radio signals. He enjoys coming up with creative solutions to technical problems. For past year, he has been involved in studying the Global System for Mobile communication out of interest. He has been motivated and moved by the open-source community to make the learning curve for GSM operations smoother. He has been active participant in various campus hackathon and recently won award in Microsoft's CodeFunDo hackathon organised in Chennai. He wishes to audit the security of TETRA ( Terrestrial Trunked Radio ) and GMR (Geo Mobile Radio) protocols subsequently.

Philip Varughese is the Co-founder & CEO of Datum Informatics Pvt. Ltd, a BigData Analytics firm, with deep focus into Contextual Intelligence using AI & Machine learning on unstructured data. Philip brings around 14 Years of rich and extensive cross functional experience and expertise in the IT field with 12+ Years of Experience in Enterprise Data Strategy, Analytics, BigData, BI, DWH, Dashboard Reporting with Experience in Consulting, Research, Deal-Making, Delivery & Centre of Excellence. He is a passionate Digital Transformation & Innovation specialist in the field of Enterprise Analytics, Contextual Intelligence, Information Ranking, Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence. Philip is an invited Speaker on BigData and Analytics in various National Conferences and leading institutions. Prior founding Datum, Philip was heading the business for Chimera Technologies, a software services firm in Bangalore and also, he was handling key business management roles with IBM, Synaptris, Seventhsense Technologies and Socratic Learning Inc. at Domestic and International level. Philip is a Post Graduate in Mathematics and also holds Master of Philosophy in Mathematics.

Prajwal Panchmahalkar is a lead security engineer at VMware Inc., He has contributed to public security research and has been the Development Lead for Matriux since 2009. In the past he was a Research Assistant at Texas Tech University working on Security of Critical Infrastructure and Smart Grid Energy Systems, with journal published on Elsevier. A Finalist for America's Information Security Leadership Award 2012 (AISLA) by (ISC)2. Previously Prajwal was a speaker at BSidesLV and GrrCon. He was a chapter lead for n|u, Hyderabad an open security community. Prajwal holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Texas Tech University at Lubbock

Akash has more than 10 years of experience in Application and Network Security. Before starting his own company he was a technical lead for one of the leading American commercial security software companies specialising in end point security. He started in security working on web infrastructure for the government of India. Akash is the founder and community Manager at null - The Open Security Community where he has made major contributions in making the community a national phenomenon. He is currently one of the Chapter Leaders of Open Web Application Security Project Bangalore (OWASP Bangalore). He founded and runs The AppSec Lab a company focussed on Application Security where he works with small and medium companies in securing their web server security, web security, mobile security and guiding them to stay secure while being competitive. Current areas of research for him include devops, secops, security in SDLC, Cloud Security, Security awareness through community building. He does a lot of trainings as well including the extremely popular Xtreme Web Hacking.

Jovin works as an Inforamtion Security analyst for a development firm. He is an active member of null - The Open security community and serves as one of the chapter leads for the null Pune chapter. He defines himself as a 'security enthusiast', his primary interest is in the field of web-security and has recently started exploring radio security. He has spoken previously at conferences like c0c0n, nullcon and GNUnify and presents regularly at null meets. He blogs at http://foohck.in

Aditya works as an Information Security Analyst. He marks out himself as an one of the security geek who is also an active member of Null - The open security community. He gives chief importance to the web-security and in the near times has developed interest in the Mobile forensics and security. He regularly presents in the Null on some interesting security issues. He blogs at http://adeetyablog.wordpress.com

Riyaz Ahemed Walikar Web Application Pentester, Security evangelist and a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), he has been active in the security community for the better part of the last 8 years. He has been actively involved with the Bangalore OWASP and null chapter for the last 4 years and is one of the OWASP Bangalore chapter leads. He is actively involved with Vulnerability Research in popular Web Applications and Network aware services and has disclosed several security issues in popular software like Apache Archiva, Openfire, Joomla!, EJabberd, .NET Script Injection Bypass and has had luck with finding vulnerabilities with popular web applications like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Cisco, Symantec, Mozilla, PayPal, Ebay, Apigee, Yahoo, Adobe, Tumblr, Pinterest etc. for which he is on the Hall of Fame for most of these services. He has also been a speaker and trainer at several security conferences including OWASP AppsecUSA 2012, BlackHat Abu Dhabi 2012, nullcon Delhi 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and c0c0n 2011. His technical interests lie with programming, bug bounty, malware analysis, breaking web applications, playing CTFs, researching devices that fall under the Internet of Things category and penetration testing networks exposed to the Internet. When he is not writing/breaking code, you can find him dabbling in photography, stargazing, playing football, reading or fishing.

Rugved Mehta is an Information Security Enthusiast working as a Technology Auditor in an Investment Bank. He has always been interested in security, be it national or international, physical or system security. His areas of interest and research include PsyOps, Perception Management, Mind Control, Aviation security, Open Source Intelligence, Human Intelligence, Signal and Technical Intelligence, Cyber Warfare, Surveillance among other such covert ops. When not in office, he keeps reading and understanding covert things trying to uncover whatever he can.

Gaurav Trivedi is a Consultant with one of the Big Fours and an Information Security Enthusiast. He is extremely passionate about aviation and follows the aviation industry very closely. His other areas of interest include surveillance, human intelligence and the ever changing world of Information Security.

Suraj Pratap is a security analyst working in freecharge. He works on securing e-commerce application, and payment gateways and iOT devices. Beside the part of job he is an active member of Null, and security explode community.

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Having 3 years of experience in development and information security. Developed various in-house tools and an active researcher in wireless security. His interests include programming, bug bounty, research on wireless protocols and breaking devices. Apart from work he likes playing badminton and adventure travels

Having 3 years of experience in information security. Working in health care domain securing the infrastructure, risk analysis and mitigations. His interests lie with breaking medical devices, playing CTF's, researching IoT security and fuzzing mobile applications.

Swaroop Yermalkar is a cybersecurity enthusiast who works as Senior security Engineer at Philips Healthcare on securing medical devices, mobile apps, hardened systems, web services, and healthcare infrastructure.. He is the author of popular iOS security book 'Learning iOS Penetration Testing', Packt Publishing and also one of the top mobile security researchers worldwide, working with Synack, Inc. He also gives talks and training on wireless pentesting and mobile app pentesting at various security conferences, such as GroundZero, c0c0n, 0x90, DefconLucknow, and GNUnify. He has been acknowledged by Microsoft, Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Dropbox, Evernote, Simple banking, iFixit, and many more for reporting high-severity security issues in their mobile apps. He is an active member of NULL, an open security community in India, and is a contributor to the regular meetups and Humla sessions at the Pune chapter. He holds various information security certifications, such as OSCP, SLAE, SMFE, SWSE, CEH, and CHFI. He has written articles for clubHACK magazine and also authored a book, An Ethical Guide to Wi-Fi Hacking and Security. He has organized many eminent programs and was the event head of Hackathon—a national-level hacking competition. He has also worked with Pune Cyber Cell, Maharashtra Police, in programs such as Cyber Safe Pune.

Raashid Bhatt is working as a malware researcher for blueliv where his main role is to analyse malware and write technical reports .In 2013 Bhatt started working in Threat Intelligence domain. His experience in malware analysis include technical analysis and botnet monitoring . During his Spare time he maintains a technical blog at http://int0xcc.svbtle.com

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 has been working in various fields of Criminology. While working at the BC Forensics Psychiatric Commission in Vancouver and the National Headquarters of Correctional Services Canada in Ottawa, Ms. Pang specialized and published research in profiling risks/needs of juvenile and adult sex offenders, women offenders, and dangerous offenders. 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 programme evaluation, and development of policies and standards, including staff training, equity employment, risk assessment and management of ethnic youth gangs, community policing, and domestic violence. 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 amongst private and public sectors to combat cybercrime. In addition to other consultation projects, Ms. Pang also assumes the role of 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”.

Sunil Varkey, CISO and Head Information Risk Management & Policy Compliance has over 20 years of IT and Information Assurance Leadership experience with banking, telecom, ITES and manufacturing businesses in US, Middle East & India. He has bachelor’s degree in Electronics engineering with an M.B.A in Investments, also CISSP, CIPP/US, CGEIT, CRISC, CISA, ABCP, ITIL- V2 (Red Badge), and Six Sigma GB certified. He has published and presented various articles related to information assurance domain.

Daud was born in Bareilly, India. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Western Michigan University, Michigan, USA. Prior to working for the FBI, Mr. Daud was an Electrical Engineer in Michigan, USA. Daud entered on duty as a Special Agent (SA) of the FBI on April 18, 2004. From 2004 through 2010, SA Daud was assigned to the Chicago Division, where he worked in the National Security section for eight years. SA Daud’s focus was on threats to National Security from various segments to include Counterterrorism actors. In 2012, SA Daud was promoted to a Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) at the FBI Headquarters in Washington DC, where his responsibility included managing National Security threats emanating from Cyber domain. In 2014, SSA Daud was appointed as the Assistant Legal Attaché (ALAT) at the US Embassy in New Delhi. SSA Daud will remain in India till 2018. As the ALAT at the US Embassy in India, SSA Daud is one of two FBI agents assigned in India and covers topics including counterterrorism, cyber (criminal and national security related), criminal and training matters. SSA Daud coordinates all the FBI activities in India with the Indian law enforcement and intelligence agencies. SSA Daud also specializes in Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), which allows for official exchange of evidence between India and the USA. MLAT is the tool used by Indian agencies to obtain all the cyber data from the US ISPs.

Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam , former President of India, eminent Indian Scientist and administrator will be the Keynote Speaker for c0c0n 2014. Dr. Kalam is one of the most distinguished scientists of India with the unique honour of receiving honorary doctorates from 30 universities and institutions. He has been awarded the coveted civilian awards - Padma Bhushan (1981) and Padma Vibhushan (1990) and the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna (1997). He is a recipient of several other awards and Fellow of many professional institutions. His literary works - "Wings of Fire", "India 2020 - A Vision for the New Millennium", "My journey" and "Ignited Minds - Unleashing the power within India" have become household names in India and among the Indian nationals abroad. In his book India 2020, Kalam strongly advocates an action plan to develop India into a knowledge superpower and a developed nation by the year 2020. He regards his work on India's nuclear weapons program as a way to assert India's place as a future superpower. He continues to take an active interest in other developments in the field of science and technology. He has proposed a research program for developing bio-implants. He is a supporter of Open Source over proprietary solutions and believes that the use of free software on a large scale will bring the benefits of information technology to more people. In his post-presidency period he continues as a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and Indian Institute of Management Indore, Chancellor of Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram, a professor of Aerospace Engineering at Anna University (Chennai), JSS University (Mysore), and an adjunct/visiting faculty at many other academic and research institutions across India. He is strong supporter of Space based solar power.

Vice Admiral Surinder Pal Singh Cheema PVSM, AVSM, NM assumed command of Southern Naval Command as its Commander in-Chief at an impressive ceremonial parade held at INS Garuda on 19 Jun 14. The Flag Officer prior to assuming the command laid wreath at the War Memorial to offer remembrances to thousands of martyrs who had fought for the country. The Admiral was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 01 Jan 1977. He is a graduate of the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasala, The Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington and the College of Naval Warfare (CNW), Mumbai. A specialist in Missile and Gunnery, he spent majority of his time on afloat and operational appointments. He has had the distinction of being the Commanding Officer of five frontline ships, namely, the missile boat INS Nishank, Mauritian Coast Guard OPV Vigilant, the missile corvette INS Khanjar, the stealth frigate INS Trishul and the prestigious Aircraft carrier INS Viraat. His appointments ashore include the Commandant of the Naval Academy and Commanding Officer INS Mandovi. He also has the unique distinction of winning both the Lentaigne (Best Dissertation) and Scudder Medals (First in overall order of merit) while undergoing course at DSSC. On promotion to the Flag rank in May 2006, he was appointed ACNS, Information Warfare and Operations (IW & Ops) at IHQ, MoD (Navy). His other flag appointments include the Chief of Staff, Western Naval Command, Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet, Controller Personnel Services, IHQ MoD (Navy), DCIDS Perspective Planning and Force Development (PP&FD) and DCIDS (DOT). His appointment as the Flag Officer Commanding in Chief, Southern Naval Command is a unique distinction being his third Command as a Commander-in-Chief since being promoted to C-in-C grade on 31 Aug 12. Prior to this he has been the Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (CISC) to the Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee as also the Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Forces Command - a Tri-Services Command responsible for all nuclear forces of the country. The Officer has excelled and distinguished himself in several operational appointments at sea earning ‘Mention in Despatches’ for duty in the face of enemy during operations in Sri Lanka. He was also awarded the Nau Sena Medal (Gallantry) when in Command of INS Nishank; AVSM when in Command of INS Viraat and PVSM as the C-in-C, Strategic Forces Command. He is a keen sportsman and plays Squash and Golf.

Dr. Gulshan Rai has over 25 years of experience in different areas of Information Technology which include Cyber Security, e-Governance, Legal Framework and the Information Technology Act for e-commerce, and several related fields. At present, he is Director General, CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) and Group Coordinator of E-Security and Cyber Law Division in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Prior to this he was Executive Director, ERNET India for over 7 years and he was instrumental in setting up of the first large scale education and research network in close collaboration with the leading educational and research institutions in the country. Dr. Rai has been working since 1998 in the area of evolving legal framework to address issues arising out of cyberspace. His sustained efforts in the area has resulted in second Technology Legislation in the History of India i.e. Information Technology Act and recent amendments in the Act. Dr. Rai is particularly focused on developing security capabilities in the country through increased security education programs. He has initiated several programs in this area with industry and educational institutions. He has enhanced the security of government infrastructure through an effective security framework that prescribes standards, and audits by a panel of independent auditors. Dr Rai holds a doctoral degree and M.Tech., and has published several papers, and reports on e-commerce, cyber security, cyber laws, education and networking and has presented the same in several national and international conferences.

Bessie Pang 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)

As the Global Lead for the justice and public safety (JPS) market segment, Hong-Eng Koh leads Oracle’s global JPS strategy, initiatives, and activities. He serves as Oracle's JPS expert, offering thought leadership on global JPS trends and challenges, best practices, and technological implementations, and he facilitates the development and adoption of solutions for JPS customers, through Oracle's broad range of technology, applications, and hardware products, as well as third-party products. He also supports and enables field teams and partners, helping them serve their JPS customers more effectively and efficiently. Mr. Koh spent more than nine years with Sun Microsystems before it was acquired by Oracle holding business development and sales leadership roles as well as acting as Global Lead for the JPS market. He was actively involved in many JPS projects globally, including citizens registry/ID; e-passport; border control system; advanced passenger information system; licensing system; command, control, and communications (C3) system; traffic incident management system; national disaster warning system; video surveillance system; electronics surveillance system; automated fingerprint identification system; criminal records system; investigation/case management system; court case management system; prisons management system; and e-police. Mr. Koh started his career with the Singapore Police Force (SPF) after graduating under an SPF scholarship. He held various appointments including Senior Investigation Officer, Head of Crime Prevention and Community Policing, Police Spokesman, and Divisional Head of Operations and Training. His last appointment was as Head of the Computer Systems Division, where he led the technical implementation of various police operational and administrative systems including SPF's first internet project, one-stop change of address system, investigation management system, automated vehicle screening system, resource activation management system, casualty information system, C3 system, and criminal intelligence system. During his years of service in SPF, he received various awards including the Commissioner's Commendation and High Commendation, Good Service Medal, Long Service Medal, and Good Conduct Medal. After leaving SPF and before joining Sun, Mr. Koh was in the systems integration business for a few years and was involved in various large government infrastructure and applications projects including government-wide networking and messaging projects and Singapore government projects. Mr. Koh graduated from the National University of Singapore with an Upper Second-Class Honors degree in Mathematics. He obtained his MBA with Distinction from the University of Leeds (UK) and a Specialist Diploma in e-commerce from the Nanyang Polytechnic (Singapore). He is the Vice President (Corporate) of the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB), an international nonprofit society that promotes global partnerships with international criminal justice and corporate agencies to combat and prevent cyberspace crimes. Mr. Koh is also a member of the National Organ Transplant Ethics Committee, appointed by the Singapore Ministry of Health, and is a visiting researcher at the China Public Security University. He lives in Singapore with his wife and two children. Senior Director (Global Lead), Justice and Public Safety Oracle Public Sector

Mr. Ryota Komoto, Chief Inspector, Section Chief, Cyber Security, General Affairs Division, National Police Agency of Japan

Lt Col Sazali bin Sukardi (Retired) is the Vice President of Strategic Policy Research, CyberSecurity Malaysia, an agency under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Malaysia (MOSTI). He holds Master of Science in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London, Master of Arts in Defence Studies from King’s College, University of London, Post Graduate Diploma in System Analysis from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), and Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He was also a staff college graduate from the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Shrivenham, United Kingdom. He has served the Malaysian Armed Forces from 1987-2009 before he joined CyberSecurity Malaysia to become cyber security practitioner. He was the Leading Co-Chair of the Council for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific Study Group on Cyber Security (2010-2012), and he has been representing Malaysia in several ASEAN Regional Forums , ASEAN Senior Official Roundtables, the United Nations’ Group of Government Experts in cyber security. He is also a part-time and visiting lecturer at several local university in Malaysia.

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.

Raymond H. Velez is currently the Regional Manager, Asia Pacific, Global Product Protection, Eli Lilly And Company. In this role, he manages drug anti-counterfeiting investigations in the Asia Pacific Region. He is currently based in Bangkok, Thailand. Some of the investigations under his direction and supervision have led to the dismantling of organizations responsible for the global distribution of counterfeit drugs. He has in-depth experience working internet-based wholesale and retail operations and is also well-versed in the global flow of counterfeit drugs from source country manufacturing to retail “brick and mortar” distribution. Mr. Velez has also conducted and participated in training on several continents regarding the worldwide threat counterfeit medicines pose to patient safety. By way of history, Mr. Velez entered on duty with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1980 in Seattle, Washington, USA. His career led to San Francisco, then to postings in Pakistan and India before he retired from the FBI in 2001 while assigned to the American Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand. Mr. Velez has broad experience in various investigative fields ranging from terrorism to drug trafficking. He has also conducted training of police and other government officials throughout Asia and the United States. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Velez was the Senior Investigator for Microsoft Corporation, Law and Corporate Affairs, responsible for IPR investigations in South Asia Pacific.

Chris is a Detective in the Child Victim Identification & Special Projects Unit at Task Force Argos, Queensland Police Service (QPS). Chris joined the QPS in 2001 before commencing work in the Child Protection and Investigation field in 2005. To develop his investigative skills Chris transferred to Task Force Argos in 2010, where he has, over the last four years worked in the Internet Response, Online Investigations and now the Child Victim Identification teams. Chris actively leads and participates in the investigation of offenders committing internet facilitated crimes against children. Chris facilitates training in this crime type for other investigators working in Child Protection and Investigation Units from across Queensland and elsewhere in Australia.

Ahmed Shifau, Head-Cyber Policing, Maldives Police Service

Colonel Jairo Gordillo Rojas is an official of the Colombia, National Police. Currently serves as Chief of the Office of Telematics, leading technology processfor the development´s country. He has over 20 years experiencein the area of telecommunications and technologies of information. In his institutional career, he has been the architect of outstanding technological developments in terms of technology and the implementation of a backbone (microwave network), digital radio communications networks, and CCTV systems in some cities of the country. He also advises the implementation and insertion of projects in unified communications and computing cloud for the Colombia National Police.

Markko KÜNNAPU is currently the member of the Bureau of the Convention Committee on Cybercrime (T-CY), which is supervising the implementation of the Convention on Cybercrime. In 2010-2014 he was the Chair of the Committee. He works as adviser in the Ministry of Justice of Estonia. He graduated the Law Faculty of Tartu University in 2001. After that he worked in Tallinn Police Prefecture as criminal investigator and in Legal Department of the Ministry of Interior as a lawyer. Since 2005 he is working in Ministry of Justice of Estonia. He has been involved in drafting several legislative proposals, including legislation concerning cybersecurity, cybercrime, identity theft and different aspects of criminal procedure. He has participated in drafting the Estonian Governmental Cybersecurity Strategy and is also a member of the Cybersecurity Commission of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He has been a speaker at different international workshops and conferences on cyber crime and cyber security.

Dr. Chaichana Mitrpant is the Deputy Director of ETDA – Electronic Transactions Development Agency (Public Organization), the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Thailand. Dr. Chaichana Mitrpant, Deputy Director, Electronic Transactions Development Agency or EDTA, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Thailand, THAILAND

Mohammed Ukashatu, Assistant Director/Head of ICT Department of State Services, National Headquarters

DAVID Baptiste works for the CVO laboratory since many years. His researches domain areas are on operational and offensive computer security and in protection of critical system. He is specialized on reverse engineering, kernel development and malware analysis. He made numerous conferences in India (Malcon, Clubhack, and Ground Zero Summit) and he still likes to come back in India in order to expose his work. He although likes good food and good vine.

Mr. Krishna Sastry Pendyala is the Head, Fraud Management & Digital Forensics, Enterprise Security & Risk Management group of Tata Consultancy Services. Mr. Sastry has over 23 years of experience with Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India as Digital Forensic investigator, and handled a large number of Cyber Security attacks & Crime Investigations of national and international importance. Sastry examined more than 1400 cases involving digital evidence referred by various state & central Law-enforcement agencies and deposed evidence in various Courts of Law. His core area of expertise includes Cyber attack investigation, Insider threat Management, Incident response Management, and off-line & online Cyber Forensic investigations. Sastry is a guest/visiting faculty at various Police & Judicial academies, Universities, Management Academies and professional bodies. Through INTERPOL General Secretariat, Lyons & INTERPOL, India Unit, Sastry trained Law Enforcement officials from more than 60 countries in Asia, Africa and Pacific regions in Cyber Security, Electronic investigations, Cyber Forensics etc., Sastry is an M.Tech from Banaras Hindu University, did his Post Graduate Program (PGP) in Public Policy Management from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and “Computer Forensics Incident Response Team" Professional Development Programme at Wright State University, USA. Sastry is a certified ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA), and a DNV Certified Vulnerability Assessor. He is the INTERPOL certified “Train the Trainer” in India in the field of Computer Forensics and member of Indo-USA (FBI) forensic exchange team.

Prasanna Kanagasabai works as an Application Pentester for close to 8 years. Speaker @ nullcon-Delhi, Clubhack, IIT Guwahati and various null meetups. Enjoy solving new challenges. Creator of IronSAP a module over IronWASP. Present interest is in Fuzzing and UAF bugs discovery.

Jovin works as a Consultant in the Application Security domain and has an experience of about 2yrs. He also is an active member of null - The Open Security community and is one of the chapter leads for the null Pune Chapter. He is also the author of game|0ver - an opensource Linux distribution built as a platform for learning Web Application Pen testing.

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.

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. His work is focused on Infrastructure Security, providing Trusted Computing On Hostile Platforms & most of his papers are in social interests. Recently he had presented a paper on "Lets Play - Applanting" at Blackhat Amsterdam which got very good support. 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.

Francis Alexander is an Information Security Researcher. He has a strong vision of Free & Open Information Security Education for all. His areas of interest includes web app & standalone app security, DBMS security, coding tools and fuzzing. He has spoke at multiple conferences such as HiTB AMS 2014,Hack in Paris 2014,Derbycon USA 2013, Defcon Kerala and Defcon Bangalore.

Tamaghna Basu, OSCP, GCIH, RHCE, CEH, ECSA, co-founder of www.weekendsecurity.org, is a security researcher at heart and has been his main areas of research include Web app security and network pen‐testing, exploit development, incident handling and cyber forensic. Being a software developer earlier, he worked in java, .net, ruby etc. and various domains like finance, insurance, gaming etc. He was the winner of NULLCON 2010's hacking challenge. He is a SANS certified mentor for the course – “Sec 504: Hacker Techniques, Exploits and Incident Handling”. He also presented in other security conferences like NULLCON, C0C0N, OWASP, ISACA etc. Tamaghna is one of the core members of NULL security community, he facilitates Chennai/Bangalore NULL Chapter, a frequent speaker of NULL and OWASP meets, conducted multiple hacking workshops in NULL HUMLA, Bangalore. He is an active member of security communities like honeynet, NAISG, DSCI, Clubhack etc. He also contributed to security magazines like Clubhack and ISACA journal. He has achieved various other certifications like Cyber Crime Investigation, Diploma in Cyber Law etc. co-founder of www.weekendsecurity.org Talks by Tamaghna: “Network Forensic” at Ground Zero Summit, 2013 (www.g0s.org) “Web Application Security” at ISACA Bangalore 2013 “Public Exploit Held in Private” at OWASP Conference Delhi 2012 (www.2012.owasp.in) “Client Side Exploits using PDF” at C0C0N Cochin 2010 (https://is-ra.org/c0c0n/2018/) “JSON Fuzzing” at NULLCON Goa 2011(www.nullcon.net) “Practical Exploitation” at ISACA Bangalore Chapter 2011 Information Security, Past, Present and Future” at Amrita College Cochin 2012 Trainings/workshops by Tamaghna: Network Forensics : 1 day workshop at Ground Zero Summit, 2013 (www.g0s.org) Network Forensics : 1 day workshop at C0C0N Trivandrum September 2013 (https://is-ra.org/c0c0n/2018/) Hackers Versus Developers: 1 day workshop at Clubhack Pune December 2012 (http://www.clubhack.com/) Basics of Web Security: 1 day workshop at Payatu/TestYantra Bangalore November 2012 Basics of Web Hacking: 1 day workshop at Amrita College Cochin September 2012 Network Forensic: 1 day workshop at C0C0N Trivandrum September 2013 (https://is-ra.org/c0c0n/2018/) Cyber Crime Investigation and Information Warfare : Multiple workshops for govt. agencies and defense organizations Cyber Security Awareness: 1 day workshop in BVB Eng. College, Hubli, 2014 Ethical Hacking: at Corporates Bangalore 2010-11

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.

AMol_NAik is a web application pentester working with Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India. He has more than 8 years of experience in Application Security, Ethical Hacking and Network security. He is listed in Google Security Hall of Fame, Facebook WhiteHat and Twitter Security page for reporting various vulnerabilities in their web applications. He won ClubHack preCON CTF 2011. His web hacking technique "Exploitation of Self-Only XSS in Google Code" qualified for “Top 10 web hacking techniques in 2011” contest run by Jeremiah Grossman.

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.

Aditya Gupta is the founder and trainer of Attify, a mobile security firm based in Bangalore, India. He is also the author of the recently published book “Learning Pentesting for Android Devices”, which has sold over 1800+ within 3 months of its launch. Apart from being the lead developer and co-creator of Android Framework for Exploitation (AFE), he has done a lot of in-depth research on the security of mobile devices, including Android and iOS, as well as BYOD Enterprise Security. He has also discovered serious web application security flaws in websites such as Google, Facebook, PayPal, Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, Skype, and many more. In his previous work at Rediff.com, his main responsibilities were to look after web application security and lead security automation. He also developed several internal security tools for the organization to handle the security issues. He is also a member of Null — an open security community in India, and an active member and contributor to the regular meetups and Humla sessions at the Bangalore and Mumbai Chapter. He also gives frequent talks and trainings at various security conferences from time to time, such as BlackHat, Syscan, Toorcon, PhDays, OWASP AppSec, ClubHack, Nullcon, and ISACA.

Yashin Mehaboobe is an SDR engineer at Bastille Networks. His areas of interest in this field span hardware security,network security, malware analysis and reverse engineering. He had discovered a denial of service vulnerability in Android. His work includes creating a secure file sharing service, automated malware detection system for the Raspberry Pi and a malware analysis framework in Python. He's been also invited to speak at HITB Amsterdam, Defcon Bangalore,Nullcon, c0c0n and Toorcon San Diego.

Mrityunjay is a pass-out from the IIT, Kanpur with a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He has an overall 10 years experience in Information security and is currently serving as Security Manager for an MNC.

Telecom Security Consultant Payatu technologies Pvt. Ltd Topic- Hacking Communication System × AKIB SAYYED Akib works as a Telecom Security Consultant at Payatu technologies Pvt. Ltd. a boutique security testing company. His hobbies and interests are reading, learning and hacking Radio and SDR. He presented a paper on hacking GSM at nullcon Goa 2012 and speaks at null Meets.

Mr. Nehchal Sandhu, Deputy National Security Advisor, is an IPS officer of 1973 Batch borne on Bihar Cadre. He completed his tenure as Director Intelligence Bureau on december 2012 and was inducted into the National Security Council Secretariate and then made the Dy.NSA in march 2013 Mr. Sandhu, with his vast experience in intelligence and physical security, is the right choice to restore to the NSCS its due role as a co-ordinating centre in internal security strategizing. He is a very pleasant officer, who has enjoyed a consistent reputation as a good team player with no trace of service or institutional parochialism. Mr. Sandhu will be an asset in the processing and implementation of the recommendations of the Naresh Chandra Task Force on the modernization of our national security set-up. Its flagship chapters relate to internal security, intelligence revamp and cyber security and an experienced officer like Mr. Sandhu should be of immense assistance to the NSA and the Government in ensuring effective implementation. He carries a rich and varied experience in the field of policing, intelligence collection & counter-terrorism. He has held various important positions and assignments. He has also served overseas in Canada as a Counsellor in the High Commission of India in Ottawa. Nehchal Sandhu is the proud recipient of prestigious Indian Police Medal for Meritorious Service (1988), President's Police Medal for Distinguished Service (1998) and several commendations.

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”.

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.

Leonid joined the National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (NAIA) in August 1996 and has spent 4 years studying. In July 2000, he graduated from the Academy and got his higher degree in law. Since August 2000 most of his time working for criminal investigation related for high tech crimes. He worked in different regions of Ukraine – Vinnitsa, Ternopoland Odessa. In October 2004 he joined the National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and in October 2005 received his Magister in Law degree. Since August 2006 he worked in the Headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Department for Combatting EconomicCrimes (Kyiv). In May 2010 he received PhD in law. Following his successful completion of the crime investigator’s course, Leonidbecame involved in various investigations in online crimes, such as internet fraud, online banking attack, payment cards fraud etc. In 2011, he was assigned to the Deputy Chief of Cybercrime Division of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Since then, he has successfully concluded numerous investigations in major cyber crimes in Ukraine. He also has extensive experience in international joint investigation project, through which he built a wide range of international cooperation network. In 2011, Leonid graduated from the FBI National Academy (247th Session). Leonid received the certificates of Interpol, Europol, KNPU, VISA, Cyprus Police University, and is also the author of one book,“Combatting Payment Cards Fraud”.

Phil was born at an early age. He cleaned out his savings at age 8 in order to buy a TI99-4A computer for the sum of $450. Two years later he learned 6502 assembly and has been hacking computers and electronics ever since. Phil currently works as a professor at a private Midwestern university. He teaches computer security and forensics. His current research focus involves use of microcontrollers and small embedded computers for forensics and pentesting. Prior to entering academia, Phil held several high level positions at well-known US companies. He holds a couple of the usual certs one might expect for someone in his position. Phil is also an accomplished aviator with several thousand hours of flight time. He holds 12 ratings including instructor, commerical pilot, mechanic, inspector, and avionics tech. When not working, he likes to spend time with his family, fly, hack electronics, and has been known to build airplanes.

Director of The National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) – India’s premier apex scientific organization under the National Security Advisor in the Prime Minister’s Office. It was set up in 2004 and also includes the National Institute of Cryptology Research and Development (NICRD), which is first of its kind in Asia.

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.

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).

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.

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

Vivek Ramachandran started working on Wi-Fi Security since 2003. He has spoken at conferences such as Blackhat, Defcon and Toorcon on Wireless Security and is the discoverer of the Caffe Latte attack. He also broke WEP Cloaking, a WEP protection schema in 2007 publically at Defcon. Vivek is the author of the book "Wireless Penetration Testing using BackTrack 5" due for release in August 2011. He was one of the programmers of the 802.1x protocol and Port Security in Cisco's 6500 Catalyst series of switches. He was one of the winners of Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among a reported 65,000 participants. He is best known in the hacker community as the founder of SecurityTube.net where he routinely posts videos on Wi-Fi Security, Assembly Language, Exploitation Techniques etc. SecurityTube.net gets over 100,000 unique visitors a month. Vivek's work on wireless security has been quoted in BBC online, InfoWorld, MacWorld, The Register, IT World Canada etc.

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.

Rohit Srivastwa is a well known security evangelist and founder of India's first ever hackers conference called ClubHack which is organized in Pune every year on the first weekend of December. He has an expertise in cyber crime investigation and IT infrastructure management. Rohit is actively involved advising several military agencies, law enforcement personnel, media, corporate and Government bodies in these fields. In Jan 2012 Rohit was awarded by prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for 2012 in the domain of “Enterprise Security”.

Mr. Tarun Wig is a serial entrepreneur with more than ten years of experience in the field of information security. With a vision to create indigenous security products which will use technology to solve problems rather than a process dependent on human factors, Mr. Wig co-founded Innefu Labs, an information security research and development organization based out of India. Since its inception, Innefu has created India’s first indigenous two factor authentication system – AuthShield, an indigenous link analysis framework and tactical internet interception system for botnet detection at ISP level. Apart from devoting time for creating the latest security products in Innefu, Mr. Wig also works as a consultant for multiple organizations and law enforcement agencies in the domain of cyber intelligence and investigation. He was instrumental in solving a cyber extortion case involving a gang of cyber criminals spread between India and Indonesia. Some of the other agencies he has worked with include Indian Army, State Police Departments including Delhi police, J & K State Police etc. Mr. Wig has given more than hundred seminars in universities, corporate, CII forums etc and is frequently featured in the media.

Maria Bellarmine Maria Bellarmine is the CISO of Tech Mahindra Ltd and heads the function responsible for global Information Security compliance. He has 24 years of industry experience in the fields of software development, network management, entrepreneurial ventures, business operations and information security. He is a certified Lead Auditor for ISO27001 and BS25999. He holds ITIL, CBCP, CISM, CPISI and CEH certifications. He heads an Information Security compliance team known for innovative work through alternative thinking into security awareness promotional efforts, SMEs on core domains of information security, home grown automated tools for customized dashboards and balanced scorecards etc. for the varied challenges of both ITS and BPO industries. He led the team to win 'DSCI Excellence Award 2012' for Security in IT Services (large) and also one of the three finalists in the category 'Privacy' implementation. He is part of DSCI Special Advisory groups on ‘International Data Flow & Data Protection’ as well as 'Security Assessments' and actively involved in national initiatives on Information 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 www.Garage4Hackers.com. Garage4Hackers.

Lavakumar is the founder of the IronWASP project, the advanced Web Security Testing Platform. He has authored multiple security tools like HAWAS, 'Shell of the Future', JS-Recon, Imposter and the HTLM5 based Distributed Computing System - Ravan. As a security researcher he has discovered several novel attacks that include a sandbox bypass on Flash Player, WAF bypass technique using HTTP Parameter Pollution, multiple HTML5 attacks and a CSRF protection bypass technique using CickJacking & HPP which was voted by peers and experts as the 5th best 'web security hack' of 2010. His works have been covered by leading media portals including the Forbes. All his research and tools are available at the Attack and Defense Labs website. He also maintains the HTML5 Security Resources Repository website. He has spoken at multiple conferences like BlackHat, OWASP AppSec Asia, SecurityByte, ClubHack, NullCon etc on topics ranging from browser exploitation to HTML5 Security. He is also the recipient of the Black Shield Luminaire award.

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. His work is focused on Infrastructure Security, providing Trusted Computing On Hostile Platforms & most of his papers are in social interests. Recently he had presented a paper on "Lets Play - Applanting" at Blackhat Amsterdam which got very good support. 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.

Anant Shrivastava works as a Consultant Analyst with 7Safe a part of PA consulting Group. 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.

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

Swatantra is a co-founder and moderator of the information security awareness community – Team Matrix (www.teammatrix.org) – a community dedicated to spread information security awareness. He is the Community Leader for the ISACA Online Community for ISO 27001.He is currently working as a Consultant with a Big 4 Consulting firm in India. He has been instrumental in executing several information security, data centre and e-governance engagements across India. He has also been involved with several MNCs for Application Security Assessments and ISO 27001 Advisory assessments.

Harsh is a Bitcoin education committee member in Bitcoin Foundation and a fellow at bitcoin education project. He is a co-founder and moderator of Team Matrix, (An online Information security community for spreading awareness of information security.)He is currently working in Capgemini as a security consultant. His areas of interest include anything and everything in the domain of Information security, cryptography and virtual economics. He is actively involved in research in Information security and his previous researches include NepenthesFE and IORNGRID.

Certified Ethical Hacker with about 1.9 years of experience with Application Security and testing. Author of open source tools - CSRF PoC Generator and SKANDA. Spoke at DEFCONKerala, 2013. Very enthusiastic about making automated tools in order to make a Pen Tester's life easier.

Swaroop Yermalkar has completed BE from MIT Institute and currently working with Persistent Systems Ltd. He is Certified Ethical Hacker, enthusiastic and hobbyist for Infosec. He was speaker at GNUnify - Asia'a Largest Open Source Event. He has given many talks and conducted over 12+ hrs humla training sessions for null community. He has written 4 articles for clubHACK magazine. He has also worked with Pune Cyber Cell in Programs such as Cybersafe-Pune. He was event head of Hackathon - Pune's Biggest Engineering Level Hacking Competition. He was attendant of various Hacking conferences such as clubHACK 2011, nullcon 2013.

Mr. 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…

Shruthi Kamath has completed B.Tech from Amrita University and currently working for Infosys Limited. She has 1 year of experience in Application Security. She is a Certified Ethical Hacker from EC Council. She is asecurity enthusiast and is interested in long term career in Security Field. She is anactive member of Null Mysore and has also presented talks at Mysore chapter. She was attendant of Hacking conference nullcon 2013.

Harshal Jamdade is a Certified Ethical Hacker with 4 years of experience in Web Application Security. She has worked on secure code review and security testing of web applications. She has experience in technical and process domain of security. She is working for recognized client in Infosys. She is interested in exploring security tools and enhancing security testing.

Abhinav Mohanty 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.

Anirudh 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.

I'am a Web Application Security Engineer / Pentester for food, shelter, fun and passion with over 6 years of field experience. I currently work at the world's largest consulting company where I lead the Pentesting and Security research team in the Core Security Group. I'm also an active member of OWASP Bangalore chapter and moderator of the Bangalore chapter of null - India's largest open security community (http://null.co.in). I have disclosed several security issues in popular software like Apache Archiva, Openfire, Joomla!, EJabberd and have found vulnerabilities with popular web applications like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Cisco, Symantec, Mozilla, PayPal, Ebay, Apigee, Yahoo, Adobe, Tumblr, Pinterest etc. for which I'm on the Hall of Fame for most of these services. I have also spoken at several international security conferences including OWASP AppsecUSA, Austin 2012, BlackHat Abu Dhabi 2012, nullcon Delhi 2012 and c0c0n 2011.

I'm a security researcher with the CSPF and a Student Partner with Microsoft. My areas of interest in this field span Hardware Security, Social Engineering, Network Security, Malware Analysis and Reverse Engineering. I had discovered a denial of service vulnerability in Android that I reported to Google and presented at Defcon Kerala. My work includes creating a changelog.txt based web application fingerprinting script for nmap, automated malware detection system for the Raspberry Pi, a network proxy in Python and a malware analysis framework in Python. I was the winner of the Defkthon CTF held at Defcon Kerala. I'm currently pursuing my Bachelors in Computer Science.

Author, United Nations peace-keeper, refugee worker, human rights activist, a former Minister of State for External Affairs and now an elected member of the Indian Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala, Dr Shashi Tharoor straddles several worlds of experience.

Dr Wamala serves as a cybersecurity advisor to a host of national Governments, regulatory authorities, large private enterprises and United Nations (UN) agencies. He focuses on the strategic, technical and information assurance aspects of cybersecurity. He is the author of the ITU National Cybersecurity Strategy Guide. He also authored the ITU National Child Online Protection Strategy Guide. The ITU tasked Dr Wamala to lead a cybersecurity Expert Assistance Mission to Georgia after Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks and the defacement of government and commercial websites in the Georgia- Russia war of 2008. Dr Wamala has held cybersecurity engineering, technical, consulting, operational and research positions throughout his career. He holds a practical PhD that focused on the implementation of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Dr. Wamala speaks on cybersecurity at conferences worldwide and to media outlets such as the BBC.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Ashish 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

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.

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)

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..

Director of The National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) – India’s premier apex scientific organization under the National Security Advisor in the Prime Minister’s Office. It was set up in 2004 and also includes the National Institute of Cryptology Research and Development (NICRD), which is first of its kind in Asia.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mr. 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.

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.

Maria Bellarmine is the CISO of Tech Mahindra Ltd and heads the global team responsible for Information Security compliance. He has 24 years of industry experience in the fields of software development, network management, entrepreneurial ventures, business operations and information security. He is a certified lead auditor for ISO27001 and BS25999. He holds CBCP, CISM, CEH and ITIL certifications. The innovative work of his team had brought alternative thinking into security awareness promotional efforts, SMEs on core domains of information security, home grown automated tools for customized dashboards and balanced scorecards etc. The varied challenges of both ITS and BPO are being effectively addressed by his team with continuous improvement of security posture and customer satisfaction. Tech Mahindra had been one amongst the top three finalists for “DSCI excellence award 2011"on ‘Security in IT company’ (large).

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.

Rohit Srivastwa is a well known security evangelist and founder of India's first ever hackers conference called ClubHack which is organized in Pune every year on the first weekend of December. He has an expertise in cyber crime investigation and IT infrastructure management. Rohit is actively involved advising several military agencies, law enforcement personnel, media, corporate and Government bodies in these fields. In Jan 2012 Rohit was awarded by prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for 2012 in the domain of “Enterprise Security”.

Rahul(fb1h2s) is working as an Info Security Researcher for iSIGHT partners. He has responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities/Bugs to Google, Apache, Banking sectors and many IT giants. Rahul has authored articles and spoken at Clubhack, Cocon(2011), Nullcon(2011,2012), HITB(2012) and BlackHat(2012). His work could be found at Garage4Hackers.

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 ).

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.

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.

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.

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 at C-DAC, an Electronics and Communication Engineer, PG Diploma in System Software Design, working as a domain specialist for web application penetration testing and cyber forensics for past one year. His interest areas include web application penetration testing, computer forensics and information security research related activities.

Amol Naik is a web application pentester working with Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India. He has more than 8 years of experience in Application Security, Ethical Hacking and Network security. He is listed in Google Security Hall of Fame, Facebook WhiteHat and Twitter Security page for reporting various vulnerabilities in their web applications. He won ClubHack preCON CTF 2011. His web hacking technique "Exploitation of Self-Only XSS in Google Code" qualified for “Top 10 web hacking techniques in 2011” contest run by Jeremiah Grossman.

Sreenarayan 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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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).