SPEAKERS

The holder of a Masters in Technology as well as a doctoral degree, Dr Gulshan Rai has over 30 years of experience in multiple spheres of Information Technology including, but not limited to, cyber security, legislative frameworks and cyber laws and e-Governance. Since 1998, Dr Rai has been working to construct an effective legal framework to address various needs of the cyberspace. Former Director General of 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, Dr Rai presently holds the post of Chief Information Security Officer, Prime Minister’s Office. Additionally, he has been the Executive Director of ERNET India for over 7 years and has been 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.During his tenure, the project of National Knowledge Network was developed and expanded.He has been designing and implementing IT solutions in the areas of Finance, Taxes and Law & Order and so on.

A renowned name in the international community, Adam Blackwell started his diplomatic career in 1985, and served in a variety of roles. His international assignments include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Kenya, the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, Minister in Mexico, and ambassador to the Dominican Republic. During his career, Mr. Blackwell has participated in and led several election observation missions. He also was a contributor and coordinator of the 2013 OAS Drug Report. He has been part of the Peace Process in El Salvador and a member of the Commission to Reform Public Security in Honduras. Presently, Blackwell serves as the Vice President International at Development Services Group, INC. He is the Chair of the Advisory Board of TechTrace; S.A. He has served as a Diplomat in Residence at the William J. Perry Center for the Hemispheric Defense Studies (NDU). Additionally he is also the Chair of the Meta-Council on the Illicit Economy for the World Economic Forum (WEF), a member of the Board of the Trust of the Americas and the Board of Polcyb.

For his service, he has received numerous awards and honors. Most notable of these are; The Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella Grand Cross with Silver Breast Star, of the Dominican Republic and the Minister’s Award for Management (1995). He has also been decorated by the Colombian Police and AMERIPOL.

Sanjay Bavisi is the Co-Founder and President of EC-Council, a global Leader in Information Security Education,Training, and Certification. A law graduate from the University of Wales, College of Cardiff, is also the Chairman of the EC‐Council Foundation, a not for profit charity dedicated to raise awareness of information security, build capacity and promote world peace.

Bavisi has been credited with co-founding the renowned Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (C|HFI), Secure Analyst (E|CSA), and Licensed Penetration Tester (L|PT) programs. In 2013, CISSE recognized Jay with the 2013 Industry Leadership Award for his pioneering work in the information security industry. In 2014, Jay was elected to the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE) Board of Directors. CISSE provides a forum for dialogue among leading figures in government, industry, and academia and is a joint effort by the NSA and DHS.Jay is also a contributing author of the Computer and Information Security Handbook published by Elsevier in 2009.

Betsy Broder 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.

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.

A part of Australian law enforcement since 1984, Jon Rouse has been highly proactive in the fields of cyber security and e-surveillance. A Detective Inspector with Task Force Argos, a branch of the Queensland Police Service responsible for the investigation of online child exploitation and abuse, Rouse has been closely involved in bringing down networks of pedophiles, child abusers and pornographers through efficient use of cyber security and digital investigation mechanisms.Since 2014, Rouse has been the director of POLCYB (www.polcyb.org) - a non-profit organization dedicated toward bringing together law enforcement, prosecutors, policy makers, academicians and corporations in an effort to thwart cybercrime and help deal with digital evidence investigations and prosecutions.

An alumnus of Drake University, Iowa, Mohammed Al-Shahri presently works as a freelance consultant with multiple private and public entities. He started his career at Saudi Aramco where he eventually rose to the rank of Chief Computing Architect. In that capacity, he was responsible for the development of the master plans for servers, storage, security and applications. Over the years, Al-Shari has successfully led IT transformation projects for several companies before going freelance. His passion is to have secure and resilient IT infrastructures in Saudi Arabia, that are fully managed by young and qualified Saudi citizens.

Sunil Varkey is the 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 a 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.

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

Education

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



Professional Experience

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

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

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

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

Lince Lawrence leads Cybersecurity Advisory, with EY Global Delivery Services, Trivandrum Wavespace -- a global network of growth and innovation centers designed to help businesses navigate what EY refers to as ‘the Transformative Age.’

Lawrence has around two decades of experience in Enterprise Risk Management; with specialisation in Information Security, and Resiliency. In his previous role, he was the Vice President / GM for Global Resiliency for Bank of New York Mellon.

Prior to that, Lawrence worked with both Allianz and Capgemini in CISO capacity, and SUNGARD, where he lead Risk Management Practice and Solution Engineering. He is a voting member of ASIS and BSI technical committees (for Information Security and Business Continuity), and regular invitee to the National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. He is also a member for Digital and Automation Council, evoking thought leadership through BCI Think Tank 2020.

Mahesh K presently holds the post of Deputy General Manager of Corporate Security at Tata Communications. An alumnus of the University of Madras, he has shown keen interest and proactiveness in the field of data protection. As a consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation he was responsible for implementing the ISMS for a new facility at Chennai. Under his tenure, the facility was able to achieve ISO 27001. Currently responsible for Global Security Policy Management, Internal GRC development, Customer facing Security Requirements, he is well-versed with the issues that arise in cyber security and data privacy.

Vitaly Kamluk has been involved in malware research at Kaspersky Lab since 2005. In 2008, he was appointed Senior Antivirus Expert. Before going on to become Director of the EEMEA Research Center in 2009, he spent a year in Japan focusing on major local threats affecting the region. In 2014 he was seconded to the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation in Singapore, where he works in the INTERPOL Digital Crime Center specializing in malware reverse engineering, digital forensics and cybercrime investigation. He remains a Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab.

Prior to joining Kaspersky Lab, Vitaly worked as a software developer and system administrator. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Applied Math and Computer Science at the Belarussian State University.

Maria Bellarmine presently works as the head of Information Security Governance at Hexaware Technologies. Formerly the Chief Information Security Officer with Tech Mahindra and Head of Operations with HCL Technologies, Bellarmine is highly experienced in the field of industrial cyber security. His experience as an entrepreneur as well as an information security head adds an additional perspective to his knowledge of cyber security and data protection.

With a Ph.D in Robotics from National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, Dr. Roshy John has over thirteen years of experience in developing robots for multiple Industries such as, consumer electronics, automotive, retail and banking. Presently working as Global Head, Industrial Robotics & Cognitive Systems at Tata Consultancy Services, his major areas of interest are robotics and automation that help in eliminating human involvement in mundane and repetitive tasks.He has 21 granted patents filed in robotics, consumer electronics and software algorithms. Prior to TCS he was working with LG Electronics as a Senior Scientist managing the consumer robot product R&D.

Presently working as Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in BSE Ltd, Shivkumar Pandey has nearly 18 years of industry experience in IT Service Delivery and Cyber Security across fast paced industries like BFSI, ITES & Telecommunications. Prior to joining BSE Ltd as CISO, he was associated with NPCI - CISO, Reliance JIO, SUD Life, Future Generali India, Kotak Mahindra and TATA AIG. An alumnus of Mumbai University, Pandey possesses an in-depth understanding of securing Core Insurance Systems, Core Banking Systems, and Payment Systems (RuPay Cards, IMPS, CTS, NFS, UPI and NABCH payment systems). Additionally, Pandey has extensive management and domain experience in driving the Information & Cyber Security programs in all key aspects i.e. Incident Response, Security Analytics, Threat Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, UBA, Security Monitoring, Malware protection, Compliance, Policy, Standards , Procedures, Awareness, Identity & Access Management, IT-GRC, Network Security, Cryptography, Data Protection, Third Party Management and Business Continuity Planning. He has been awarded many accolades such as ‘Cyber Security Leader of the Year Award 2017’ from NASSCOM-DSCI, and Finnoviti Awards 2018 for “BSE Next Generation Securities Operation Center” by Banking Frontiers.

George Eapen is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for GE in the Middle East, North Africa & Turkey. In his role, George is responsible for defining Cyber Security strategy for Enterprise IT & OT for the region and provide strategic leadership to IT Security related projects & initiatives for all GE businesses in the region. George is also responsible for protecting GE critical assets in a growing region which spans 18 countries and 7000 workforces George joined GE in 2006 with GE Healthcare in India and has since held roles of increasing responsibilities and progressed to his most recent role as Chief Information Security Officer for MENAT. During his tenure with GE, George worked in multiple domains (Product Lifecycle management, ERP, Infrastructure, Supply Chain & Commercial IT) and multiple businesses (GE Healthcare, GE Appliances, GE Capital, GE O&G, GE Aviation and GE Corporate) George is a graduate of GE IT leadership program (ITLP), GE Six Sigma Black Belt program and graduate of GE Executive leadership program (CAS).

Seasoned business oriented information security professional with over twenty three years of management and diverse security experience in critical sectors like finance and telecom. Combines strong educational and professional background in technology and business management - to assess, plan, build and operate strategic solutions and secure critical infrastructure globally. Currently the Global Chief Information Security Officer of a leading US based mortgage servicer - responsible and accountable for security oversight and business continuity globally. Was previously the CISO for a leading telecom provider & its Subsidiaries - responsible and accountable for all aspects of Information Security including Security Strategy, Policy & Risk Governance, Security Engineering and managing an on premise 24x7 Security Operations Center. Also established and managed the Business Continuity Management and Privacy Offices.

Guillermo Galarza is the Director of Law Enforcement Training & Technology at the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. In this position, Guillermo is responsible for the law enforcement training programs and child safety technology platforms offered to law enforcement around the world. ICMEC promotes the safety and well-being of children through activism, policy development, and multinational coordination. ICMEC’s programs and initiatives are uniting the world and providing international solutions to the problems of child abduction and exploitation.

Guillermo manages the international law enforcement training course initiative focusing on investigating computer-facilitated crimes against children. The training course provides law enforcement agencies around the world with tools and techniques needed to effectively investigate Internet-related child sexual exploitation cases. Since 2003, Guillermo has coordinated 121 trainings around the world. To date, more than 14,500 law enforcement officers, investigators, prosecutors and other specialist from 119 countries have been trained.

In addition to the continued management of the international training program, Guillermo continues to generate funding to implement trainings all over the world. He also oversees law enforcement technology tools and advancement programs designed by industry and law enforcement to protect children online.

Guillermo manages ICMEC activities related to the expansion of prevention, awareness programs around the world. In his role Guillermo hosts meetings discussions with high level dignitaries, including heads of State.

Prior to joining ICMEC, Guillermo started his career in 1996 at the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) as the International Resource Coordinator. NCMEC is a sister organization focusing on US national issues. Guillermo managed over 100 cases per month involving international child abduction to Latin America. He utilized his case management skills to purse missing children leads and to work with local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to locate abducted children.

Guillermo also serves as an ICMEC/NCMEC spokesperson on issues related to online child sexual exploitation.

Guillermo has received numerous honors and awards including:

• FBI National Academy,
• Department of Justice, National Crime Information Certification
• Interpol, Specialist Group on Crimes Against Children,
• International Law Enforcement Training Academy, Bangkok Thailand
• Criminal Bureau of Investigation, India

Guillermo holds a degree in International Business from St. Mary’s University in Winona, Minnesota

Ryan Sherstobitoff is Senior Analyst who has spearheaded major campaigns for McAfee Advanced Threat Research. He was formerly the Chief Corporate Evangelist at Panda Security, where he managed the US strategic response for new and emerging threats. Ryan is widely recognized as a security & cloud computing expert throughout the country.

Suja is the Managing Director at Nissan Digital India, Trivandrum. This is the first global digital hub for Nissan Motor Corporation worldwide that focuses on building new-age digital capability to enhance customer experiences, product development, connectivity & security for autonomous, connected and electric vehicles.

Chandy has around two decades of international and domestic management consulting experience, spanning across key global markets and industries. In her previous role, she was the vice-president and overall head of sectoral investment promotion and facilitation and innovation at Invest India, the national investment promotion agency of the Indian government.

Prior to that, Chandy worked with both KPMG and PwC in lead roles managing large-scale transformation engagements in both North America and India. She is also a frequent guest speaker at the Foreign Service Institute, Delhi as well as several other national & international forums.

Brian started out with PwC serving clients across multiple industries; from financial services to telecom, retail and oil & gas companies. Eventually working with Barclays Bank, he specialised in the financial services sector, focusing on risk management across technology, business systems and products. Over the last 16 years as technologies have evolved, Brian has continually enriched his experience and technical knowledge of risk management most especially in information security. In his current role, Brian leads the information security team of Commercial Bank International (CBI), which is a UAE based commercial bank. At the top of his agenda is working with the senior leadership team of the bank to make sense of the noise so that the most relevant and prioritized security agenda items are attained. This is especially important considering the fast pace of environmental changes in the industry.

Yashin Mehaboobe is a Security Analyst at Riscure. He has been invited to speak at multiple conferences such as HITB Amsterdam, Nullcon, c0c0n, Kaspersky NextGeneration and Ground Zero Summit. His areas of interest span from hardware security, malware analysis to reverse engineering. Yashin is also the author of various open source tools such as PyTriage and Arcanum.

Rafael Boix Carpi is the Principal Trainer and Security Specialist at Riscure. His fields of expertise include side channel analysis and fault injection in embedded devices. Boix Carpi has presented talks and workshops at several conferences worldwide (CCC camp 2015, PANDA 2016, ChinaCrypt 2015, SPACE 2015, Crypto Summerschool 2017, 2015 and 2014, etc.), as well as authored and collaborated on several research papers. Boix Carpi enjoys working with customers to come up with an effective strategy to enhance the security of their products. He is interested in information security, software development, hardware hacking and embedded devices, basically tearing apart any device with chips on it until its secrets are revealed and sharing how to do it for learning how to make things more secure.

Mr. Sergey Kapinos, a Russian career diplomat, assumed the post of the Representative- UNODC Regional Office for South Asia in November 2016. The Office covers six South Asian countries - Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal and Sri Lanka. As the Regional Representative, Mr. Kapinos's focus is to increase awareness about the risks and impact of organized crime and corruption on the rule-of-law and security of the people in the region, and to advocate for the comprehensive implementation of the UN Conventions to counteract these threats.

Prior to his appointment at UNODC; Mr. Kapinos was Ambassador, Head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Centre in Bishkek,Kyrgyzstan.

He brings to his new assignment extensive practical experience in managing field operations for the OSCE, as well as in forging and maintaining close partnership arrangements with a wide range of stakeholders.

In a career spanning over 39 years, he has served as Ambassador, Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan and, prior to that, has held various positions with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including: Deputy Director, 4th CIS Department; Minister-Counsellor, Russian Embassy in Armenia; Senior Counsellor, International Security and Disarmament Department; and Head of Economic Division, Russian Embassy in India.

Mr. Kapinos has two Master's degrees, one in Law from the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1990 - 1992) and one in Business and Administration from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (1973 - 1978).

He is married and speaks English, French, Polish, Ukrainian, Urdu and Hindi.

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.

As CIO, Sunil is responsible for Information Systems, and digital transformation of all internal systems for global operations spanning 28 countries and over 20,000 employees. As Senior Vice President, Sunil also leads Engineering Services and Diversified Manufacturing portfolio customers globally. Sunil is also responsible for Global Partnerships & Alliances with special focus on creating a Start Up ecosystem, building partnerships with Universities and the Corporate Venture Capital team.

Sunil is known for his ability to build high performance teams, drive profitability and growth through innovative solutions, execution excellence and create effective sales and go-to-market strategies. In 2013, Milwaukee Business Journal included Sunil in its annual "40 Under 40" column of business leaders to watch.

Sunil joined UST Global in 2014 through the acquisition of Kanchi Technologies that he led as its founder & CEO. An Engineering services organization with operations in the USA, Germany and India. Sunil is a certified Lean Master and Six Sigma Green belt. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Wichita State University, and a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum, University of Kerala, India.

Rahul is founder – The PerspectiveTM & Grade AceTM with more than a decade experience working in Technology, Public Policy, Cyber Security & Privacy space, engaging with a range of stakeholder locally and globally to address the challenges in the evolving cyber ecosystem & value add as a Trusted Advisor. He is also working as Country Leader- India for International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). He contributed to Asian Business Law Institute (ABLI, Supreme Court of Singapore) on their ‘Data Protection Legal Framework in Asia-Pacific’ project, and is also a member of Asia Privacy Scholar Network. Rahul has authored a few articles in print and electronic media and is a passionate speaker. He also anchors a few security and privacy communities involving CROs, CISOs & DPOs on multiple platforms.

Rahul is a member of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) ‘National Task Force on Cyber Security & Privacy’. In his past role, Rahul has worked with Data Security Council of India (DSCI), part of NASSCOM, for over 6 years, where he anchored DSCI’s Policy, Privacy, Standards and International relations functions. He had the opportunity to lead initiatives such as ‘NASSCOM-DSCI Cyber Security Task Force’, Cross-border data flows negotiations with EU & EFTA countries, authored DSCI Privacy Assessment Framework & co-created DSCI privacy training and certification program. Through BIS, he represents India in ISO SC27 Security Working Groups for Standards development. Previously, he worked as a senior security analyst with HCL Technologies and as a telecom engineer with Nokia Siemens Network. He holds Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication from Indraprastha University in New Delhi.

Rahul is fellow:

1. International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP)- Dept. of State, US Govt., 2018
2. Global Governance Futures - Data Governance (GGF 2027) – Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Germany, 2017
3. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Anindya is a passionate cybersecurity practitioner with over 13 years of domestic and international experience. Having worked in Big 4 and Industry in various domains of Cyber Security and Privacy, he is currently serving as the Head of information security at Maersk Global Service Centre which has over 13000 employees across India, China and Philippines.He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPP/IT) and Encase certified Forensic expert (EnCE). Anindya has worked in global economies like India, Hong Kong and Dubai which has given him a unique understanding of global cybersecurity issues as well as initiatives underway to mitigate them.

Vladimir Katalov is the CEO, co-owner and co-founder of ElcomSoft Co.Ltd. Holding a degree in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Engineering-Physics Institute (State University), Katalov has undertaken security and computer forensics training both for foreign and inner (Russian) computer investigative committees and other organizations. Presently, he manages all technical researches and product developments in ElcomSoft. Katalov is a frequent presenter at cyber security and IT conventions around the world.

Jordan Santarsieri is a founder partner at Vicxer where he utilizes his 12+ years of experience in the security industry, to bring top notch research into the ERP (SAP / Oracle) world. He is engaged in efforts to identify, analyze, exploit and mitigate vulnerabilities affecting ERP systems and business-critical applications, helping Vicxer's customers (Global Fortune-500 companies and defense contractors) to stay one step ahead of cyber-threats.

Santasieri has also discovered critical vulnerabilities in Oracle and SAP software, and is a frequent speaker at international security conferences such as Black-Hat, Insomnihack, YSTS, Auscert, Hacker Halted, OWASP US, 8dot8 and Ekoparty.

Anant Shrivastava is an information security professional with 10+ yrs of corporate experience with expertise in Network, Mobile, Application and Linux Security. He is Director Asia Pacific for NotSoSecure Global Services. He has spoken / Trained at various conferences (Blackhat USA/EU/Asia, Nullcon, g0s, c0c0n, RootConf, GroundZero). Anant also leads Open Source project Android Tamer (www.androidtamer.com) and CodeVigilant (www.codevigilant.com). His work can be found at anantshri.info

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 and research manager. Ben is Imperva's Threat Research Director, and leader of the research group, consisting of elite security researchers and developers - researching Network, Application & DB Security, Data Analytics, Machine Learning and AI.

She is working as a Principal Consultant with NotSoSecure Pvt. Ltd. She started as a developer and has been working on vulnerability assessments and penetration tests for web applications and networks. She likes to perform threat modelling and design reviews for financial and banking applications and has a fair idea of the challenges and design solutions for the same. She has a rich background of projects where she worked for building and execution of various threat cases, bending business logic, executing social engineering scenarios, spear phishing, large scale reconnaissance, data exfiltration, red teaming, wireless and physical pentesting. Her training experience spans across local and international platforms such as BlackHat USA (BH USA 2017) where she conducted Infrastructure hacking courses. She conducted the Social Engineering Village at Nullcon(2016-18) and the Recon Village in Defcon 2017, Las Vegas, USA Certifications: Offensive Security Certified Professional [OSCP]

Nalja Mohamed Alnaqbi presently serves as the adjunct professor at College of Education, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi. Holding a Ph.D in Curriculum and Instruction: Media and Technology from Indiana State University, Indiana, USA, Alnaqbi has over 10 years of combined experience in academic and management educational environments. She is the founding member and board member of multiple of social and educational committees including Emirate Society for Safer Internet (eSafe) and Emirates Human Right Society. Her excellence in her field has made her a recipient of many awards, most notably - the 2012 BCS Award for outstanding personalities who have made excellent contributions in their fields. Alnaqbi is a frequent researcher and speaker in conferences and forums on educational technology, instructional design, disruptive technologies, artificial intelligence in education and distance learning.

Venu Sriraj is the Chief Information Security Officer of UAE Exchange. Possessing over 14 years of experience in Information Security, IT Security and Network Infrastructure Management, he has spearheaded multiple complex initiatives from technical as well as commercial standpoints. An alumnus of University of Madras, he has worked with many prestigious organisations such as Nokia and Ramco Systems. In his current role as the CISO he is responsible for providing strategic leadership and direction to UAE Exchange’s Information Security program and implementing feasible practices to protect the information assets across the organization. Sriraj is a dynamic leader in the field of IT security and data protection and is extremely competent in Security Risk Management, ISMS, PCI DSS Compliance, IT Audit Management, Security Incident Response & Forensic Analysis, and developing IS Policies & Procedures.

Rajesh Hemarajani is the Chief Information Security Officer at IDFC Bank. Possessing over 26 years of international experience in Information Security, risk technology, consultancy and program management, Hemarajani is an eminent leader in the cybersecurity community. Having worked for prestigious organisation like Nomura Securities and the Royal Bank of Scotland, he has extensive experience in the fields of implementation and management of cyber security infrastructure, policy design, gap analysis and risk analysis. For his expertise and contributions as a CISO, he was honoured with the “ Best CISO of the Year” award by the Indian CISO Awards in 2017

Uday Deshpande is the Chief Information Security Officer of Larsen & Toubro Group of companies. Having more than 20 years of experience in leading global information security programs, enterprise risk management and compliance projects, he is a prominent leader in the IT security community. With his experience and expertise in this field, Deshpande has served various prestigious organisations including Carrier Corporation, Wipro Technologies, and Tata Motors. He has extensively worked in the fields of Risk Profiling, Internet and Intranet Vulnerability Assessment and Network Security Architecture Designing and Deployment. For his expertise and experience, Deshpande has been honoured with numerous accolades including Security Strategist Award and Industry Recognition Award in 2016 and Global Top 100 CISO Award in 2017.

VP Business Dev UST-Global CyberProof, co-founder of BISEC a SOC Management Incident Response platform company, former board member Cyren ( Nasdaq:cyrn) a Threat Intelligence company, former head of Intelligence business Unit of Elbit systems, former Director of Information Technology (CIO ) in the Israeli Intelligence community.

Mr. Fazlan Abdullah is the Head of the Government Engagement Department (GE) in CyberSecurity Malaysia. He has been involved in the implementation and coordination of Malaysia’s National Cyber Security Policy (NCSP) since 2008, as co-secretariat for the National Cyber Security Coordination Committee (NC3), the National Cyber Drill Exercise (X-Maya) and the National Cryptography Policy. He was also a committee member for the development of Malaysia's Public Sector Cyber Security Frame Work (2016) and is currently involved in the development of Malaysia’s Cyber Security Strategy (2018) spearheaded by the National Security Council. Fazlan Abdullah graduated with a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Electronics from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He has more than 21 years’ experience in ICT, business continuity and information security.

Holding a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Florida, Sudheer Tumuluru presently serves as the Head of Security Engineering at Flipkart. In his role, he oversees the entire Security portfolio for Flipkart and brings together diverse domains contributing to the security posture: InfoSec, AppSec and Security / Identity Web Services. Prior to working at Flipkart, Tumuluru worked at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, where he owned and managed a public web service called AWS Data Pipeline used for analytics. He has also worked at Expedia in the CTO office where he helped bootstrap the next generation of big-data infrastructure platform. A pioneer in the international security community, Tumuluru is passionate about cyber security and data privacy.

Mr. Abdullah Al Ghamdi started his career in Safety & Industrial Security Business line at Saudi Aramco. He served in various organizations within Aramco as Loss Prevention Advisor, Public Relation Representative, Sr. Project Management Construction Specialist & Operational Excellence Compliance Coordinator

He represented Saudi Aramco in different committees with governmental and other JVs organizations such as TOTAL and SHELL. He delivered training and presentation for organizations such security forces; colleges etc.

He served as Lead safety & security for King Abdullah Petroleum and Research Center in Saudi Arabia

His current position in Saudi Aramco as a lead of safety and security , working for Community & Public Projects and he is responsible for identification and placing control measures on all kind of Safety & Industrial security related aspects may anticipated in project execution management

DAVID Baptiste is a PhD student at the (C+V)^O laboratory in ESIEA. His research is mainly focused on malware analysis, security under windows operating system, networks, kernel development and vulnerabilities. Sometimes math, physic or anything cool from that stuff is perfect for him to enhance everyday life. He although likes good food and good vine (we never change), but he is okay if you offer him beers. He has already made several conferences included: iAwacs, Cocon, Ground zero summit, EICAR, ECCWS, Defcon.

Plumerault François is a young engineer student from ESIEA school specialized computer security. His interest is mainly about math and technology of operating system in general. Talking about hacks or tricks to improve or bypass security of systems is always a good moment for him.

Mustafa is a founder and Chief of 2 Not-For-Profit Organization in UAE & India. With 25 years of experience in the IT field and as a social entrepreneur, he is presently using his extraordinary skills for the cause of protection of children on the internet.

An IT specialist by profession, Mustafa held the position of Business Intelligence Analyst/Web Systems Architect at ADNOC Distribution from 1999 until late 2014 when he left the corporate world to pursue humanitarian avenues.

A Child Protection Evangelist, Mohamed has visited more than 25 countries and various organizations HQs such as INTERPOL, EUROPOL, FBI, ICE-DHS, UNICEF and European Union to understand the dynamics of protecting children online globally. As a result, he was made a member of INTERPOL Specialists Group on Crimes against Children and various other international advisory boards.

In 2016, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior HH Sheikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan felicitated Mustafa on Safer Internet Day and honored him by making him UAE’s representative to the Internet Governance Forum. Mustafa has also received recognition from India where former telecommunication minister, Kapil Sibal, awarded him for his humanitarian contributions in Indian states.

Lavakumar Kuppan is the founder of Ironwasp Security. He has developed several security tools, including an open source web application security scanner. Through his research in the web security space he has discovered several new attack techniques on popular software. He has presented his security research in several international conferences including BlackHat. He holds the distinction of being one the few people who have developed DAST, SAST and IAST software.

Nitesh Shilpkar is a passionate security researcher and likes learning new aspects of security. He is currently working with PwC Singapore. He has received multiple CVE’s for finding bugs in products like Adobe Coldfusion, Adobe Shockwave Player, Apple iCloud and Amazon Kindle. He has been acknowledged by over 40 websites such as Facebook, Google, AT&T etc. He holds certifications like OSCE, OSCP, OSWP, CREST-CRT. He is interested in Exploit development and Research.

Rajesh has over 17 years of experience in Security Product Development, Malware Analysis, Reverse Engineering and implementing Automation. He has implemented malware clustering and classification using Machine Learning. He has presented papers at various Security Conference like AVAR (Association of anti-Virus Asia Researchers) and APCERT (Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team).

Parmanand Mishra is Malware Research Engineer at Qualys Inc. His role includes analyzing malware samples and writing heuristic-based detection for the same. He has the keen interest in developing tools for evolving malware analysis workflow.

Rahul Sasi is an Indian entrepreneur, security expert, and white-hat hacker. He is the Founder and CTO of Artificial intelligence based info security company CloudSEK. He has presented his papers in 28 different forums in 18 different countries. He was listed among the top influential Indian Security researchers of 2015 by the Null community. Prior to founding CloudSEK, he was a Sr Engineer at Citrix and iSight(FireEye).

Vinod Kumar Agrasala is an established Professional and Entrepreneur

Vinod is founder, managing Director and principal consultant in Wings2i IT Solutions Pvt Ltd ‐ an organization focusing on Knowledge Services of Consulting and Trainings in areas of Information Security, Quality, Data Privacy, Process, Risks and Compliance. Vinod is a well-recognized expert consultant and trainer in the industry for areas like ITIL, ISO/IEC 20000, ISO 9001, Data Privacy / GDPR, Process improvement and so on.

He comes with around 23 years of industry experience with more than 16 years focused consulting and training and a decade in Entrepreneurship. In his distinguished career, Vinod has been associated with various global organizations like Wipro Technologies, IBM Global Services, Microland, QAI and CMC. Prior to Wings2i, Vinod was founding member and Head- Consulting & Training Services at GLOPORE IMS.

Vinod carries immense global experience with customer projects in India, USA, LATAM, UAE, KSA, Oman, Bahrain, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Philippines and Algeria. He has been speaking in global conferences and seminars, writing articles and participating in web forums. He carries a number of Industry certifications in the associated domains.

Information technology Professional having experience 18+ years in managing supervising various IT projects in different verticals like ISP, Military, Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, Oil & gas etc.. Expertise in strategic direction, IT security & Risk Assessment, IT governance,Planning and operation of Data Centers. Actively participating many professional communities. Volunteer Cyberdome, WeAllArePolice Abu Dhabi.

Amit is a renowned National Security Expert and a Crime Investigator on Cyber Forensics and Ethical Hacking to various Indian investigation agencies and police departments.

An alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Amit has worked with a variety of leading telecom MNCs such Samsung, ST Microelectronics, Qualcomm and Tech Mahindra in the Telecom and mobile phone software domain.

His rich experience renders his expertise in a variety of fields including cybercrime data analysis on social media, call data record analysis, cell tower data analysis, mobile phone tracking, mobile phone hacking, phishing server and cyber attacks, counter cyber attacks, email hacking, email tracing and so on.

A commonwealth UK, chevening fellow, He is also an advisory member to various startup boards and security forums. He is part of Cyber Security division at Tech Mahindra Ltd. CNN-IBN featured him as National Security Expert and covered few of his cases in a documentary on “Cyber warfare in India” in 2012.

A prominent speaker and a renowned name in national and international cyber security conferences, Amit is regularly quoted in Indian print and electronic media on global cyber issues. He is also invited by various arms of the Indian government, including its defense forces to train their cyber professionals, acknowledging his authority on cyber security.

Michael Joseph has over 24 years of IT experience and works as Director –Systems Engineering at Fortinet, SAARC.

He holds Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and started his network security carrier in 2001 in Sify.

In 2003, he was part of the two member team that started the Fortinet business in India and currently as a Director - System Engineering, leads the pre-sales team for the SAARC Region.

He has more than 17 years’ experience in Internet Security domain. He has also worked with other leading security vendors WatchGuard and Bluecoat.

In the current role of Director - System Engineering, he is the single point of contact from the region to the engineering and product management team for channelizing customer business/security requirements and help develop solutions to meet local market requirements. He engages with the customers/partners to advise/guide them in addressing security challenges/incidents faced by organisations.

He is also a regular speaker at various events which Fortinet participates.

Shiju Rawther is a global technology leader who has been instrumental in driving technology transformations for businesses worldwide. Presently, he leads Infrastructure Technology & Security Operations at TransUnion CIBIL Ltd, a leading Credit Bureau in India.

Throughout his career, Rawther has aided companies in welcoming unprecedented technological overhauls. Over the years, he has been responsible for end-to-end design, implementation and operationalization of security infrastructure at TransUnion CIBIL Limited. He has been successful in completing the IT Infrastructure, application deployment and security operations including SOC from the scratch for Gateway Terminals India and Fullerton India. Additionally, he has also implemented virtualisation on open platform, which was the first of its kind in India.

Rawther has been associated with Cyberdome, as a commander, in the Public-Private Partnership initiative started by Kerala Police to combat cyber threats.

He was recognised as “Security Leader of the Year - Financial Services” in December 2016 by DSCI, NASSCOM. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker and a frequent speaker at numerous security forums for combating cyber threats.

Amit Pradhan is a leading expert in the cybersecurity community. Presently, he serves as the Chief Technology Security Office, Chief Privacy Officer and Senior Vice President - Technology Security at Vodafone India. An alumnus of The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, he has garnered vast experience in numerous fields like information technology, security technology, business communication and continuity management. His experience in information security with corporate giants like Cipla Ltd and the Royal Bank of Scotland has rendered him expertise in helping businesses achieve secure technological transformations.

For his services, Pradhan has received numerous accolades including - the Dynamic CISO Award in 2014 and Top 100 CISO Award of 2014.

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

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

Maya R Nair is a pioneering leader of Datacenter Infrastructure and Information security with major operating tenets of implementing defense in depth, acquiring 360-degree view of security, implementing IT infrastructure setups from the scratch, revamping datacenters and designing & implementing Business Continuity plans and Disaster Recovery sites.

Presently serving as the head of information security at Idea Cellular Ltd, Nair has vast experience in a range of industries including telecommunication, BFSI and manufacturing.

Over the years, she has been successful in setting up of complete IT and data centre infrastructure from the scratch as well as in setting up and operationalising security technology and framework. She has also been responsible for designing and implementing business continuity plans and disaster recovery sites.

Nair has served as a commander at Kerala Cyberdome, a Public-Private Partnership initiative started by Kerala Police to combat cyber threats and to spread awareness among masses

Maya has won numerous industry accolades and awards that recognize her contribution to technology and security. She is a regular speaker and contributor in industry forums worldwide.

Madhu Akula is a security ninja and published author, security and devops researcher with extensive experience in the industry ranging from client facing assignments building scalable and secure infrastructure, to publishing industry leading research to running training sessions for companies and governments alike.

Madhu Akula’s research papers are frequently selected for major security industry conferences including Defcon 24, Blackhat USA 2018, All Day DevOps (2016, 2017), DevSecCon (London, Singapore, Boston), DevOpsDays India, c0c0n, Serverless Summit, ToorCon, DefCamp, SkydogCon, NolaCon and null, etc. Madhu Akula was a keynote speaker for the National Cyber Security conference at Dayananda Sagar College in Feb 2016.

When he’s not working with Appsecco’s clients or speaking at events he’s actively involved in researching vulnerabilities in open source products/platforms such as WordPress, Ntop, Opendocman etc. and is also a contributing bug hunter with Code Vigilant (a project to Secure Open Source Software). His research has identified many vulnerabilities in over 200 organisations including US Department of Homeland Security, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Adobe, LinkedIn, Ebay, At&t, Blackberry, Cisco, Barracuda etc. He is also an active member with Bugcrowd, Hackerone, Synack etc.

When he’s not working with Appsecco’s clients or speaking at events he’s actively involved in researching vulnerabilities in open source products/platforms such as WordPress, Ntop, Opendocman etc. and is also a contributing bug hunter with Code Vigilant (a project to Secure Open Source Software). His research has identified many vulnerabilities in over 200 organisations including US Department of Homeland Security, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Adobe, LinkedIn, Ebay, At&t, Blackberry, Cisco, Barracuda etc. He is also an active member with Bugcrowd, Hackerone, Synack etc.

He is co-author of Security Automation with Ansible2 book published by Packt Publishing in December 2017, which is listed as a resource by the RedHat.

Ajit Hatti is a Co-founder of "null - Open security community", and author of LAMMA and GibberSense, the crypto security assessment tools. Previously worked on secure applications of Cryptography at Symantec Corporation. He has worked as an Engineer and Security Researcher with security companies like IBM-ISS, Bulelane, Zscaler in past. He has previously presented his security research at BlackHat, DEF CON + Crypto Privacy Village, NullCon, Ground Zero Summit & c0c0n.

Himanshu Kumar Das is a security researcher with expertise on Infrastructure and Payments security. He is passionate about system security and fuzzing. He participates in CTF with team SegFault. He has won Nullcon JailBreak 2012 and had been architect for HackIM CTF since 2012. While away from security, he spends his time playing console and enjoys cooking.

Prajal Kulkarni, is a Security Researcher currently working with FlipKart. He is an active member of Null Security Community for the past 3 Years. His area of interest includes Web,mobile and system security. He writes a security blog at www.prajalkulkarni.com and he is also the lead contributor at project Code Vigilant (https://codevigilant.com/). Code-Vigilant has disclosed over 200+ vulnerabilities in various wordpress plugins and themes. In the past he has disclosed several vulnerabilities in core components of GLPI, BugGenie, Owncloud etc. He has also reported many security vulnerabilities to companies like Adobe, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Mozilla. He has spoken at multiple security conferences and provided trainings at NullCon2015, NullCon2016, NullCon2018, Confidence 2014, Gracehopper 2014 etc.

Manoj has more than 5 years of experience in the field of Application Security and Secure coding process and a co-founder of h1hakz. He has Developed many Secure Application Projects using different languages and has Code reviewed a wide range of applications, from embedded systems to web applications including Retail Banking and E-commerce Application.

Ranjith who has more than 7 years of experience. He is an active player on Bug bounty programs and specialized in Web application, Mobile, Cloud and a contributor to the Security Community and co-founder of h1hakz, an open platform for knowledge sharing though webcast series.

Also, he has found many vulnerabilities for many organizations. Apart from hacking, he gets time for fitness from his work schedule.

He is a chapter lead for NULL Bangalore, India's Largest open security community and an OWASP Bangalore Volunteer.

He is an active speaker at various security Conferences & Communities like BSides Delhi, Null/OWASP/G4H.

He holds various industry recognized certifications such as OSCP, ECSA, and CEH.

Speaker Profile Security Engineer @ Security Centre of Excellence – Philips Innovation Campus. He is M.Tech. in CS with Specialization in Information & Network Security. He conducts frequent talks and workshops on Android and Info Sec @ several places including Bsides Delhi, OWASP, NullBangalore Chapter, DroidCon-IN. Kartik loves to write technical Blogs in his leisure time – www.nestedif.com.

Riddhi Shree is working with Appsecco as Application Security Engineer. She is an active speaker at null Bangalore and has contributed to the application security community by writing multiple security blogs and creating educational videos. She has interest in a variety of areas including (but not limited to) blogging, playing guitar, painting/sketching, playing chess, indulging in adventure sports, and keeping up with technology.

Bharath is an open source evangelist with a strong passion for information security and building solutions that solve real world problems. Bharath has presented at many security and developer conferences including Bsides Delhi 2017, Bugcrowd LevelUp 2017 & 2018, PyCon India 2013 and FUDCon 2012.

Bharath is an active member and contributor at various security and developer communities including null open security community and Python Malaysia User Group.

His core interest lies in Infrastructure security, Application security, Protocol security and Reconnaissance.

Subash is a Security Engineer at Appsecco. As an avid security enthusiast and a passionate developer, he enjoys developing meaningful solutions to real world security problems. He is currently working on solving security problems at cloud scale and exploring solutions to improve intelligent automation using AI. During his free time, he loves to explore and research on new and upcoming technologies. Introduced to the world of security by null Open Security Community, he is on track to actively contributing back by presenting at various meetups and conferences and has given talks at null Bangalore and the Serverless Summit. He has also contributed to open source security tools such as OWASP Threat Dragon and DVNA. Subash's training on "Automated Defense using Cloud Services for AWS, Azure and GCP" has been selected for Blackhat USA 2018 and Appsec EU 2018.