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Rohit Srivastwa is founder of BharatVerse, a Metaverse being developed specifically for Bharat. With 20 years of experience and successful exits, he has been focusing on the domain of information security and now pivoted into web3. Now he is a “Certified Metaverse Expert” and also provides training as well as coaching to students as well as corporates in this domain.

He is also actively involved in advising several Military agencies, Law Enforcement, Corporate, and Government bodies of different countries in these fields. He is a liaison member at FIRST.org which is a consortium of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) from across the globe liaising between CERTs of difference countries and companies in case of cyber-attack

and adversary’s takedown.

Rohit is a well-known Security Evangelist who started India’s first-ever hackers conference and community named “ClubHack” back in 2006. He has had a bunch of start-ups in the past, with the last one acquired by QuickHeal Technology Ltd in 2016.

A teacher at heart, Rohit has designed the entire MTech program in Information Security that is being currently offered by Pune University. He is also a visiting faculty at several A-grade institutions such as IITs, IIMs, Symbiosis, etc. Currently he is teaching web3.0, metaverse and related topics to corporates

and students of various institutions.

He has recently authored a book on personal data security and privacy for techies as well as non-techies. The book is named “My Data My Privacy My Choice” which is available at ecommerce

platforms as well as via https://privacy.clinic. The same recently got translated into Russian as well.

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Podcast Host - Shruthi Kamath

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Aseem Jakhar is the Director, R&D at Payatu https://payatu.com a research-powered cyber security services company specialized in IoT, Embedded, cloud, mobile and infrastructure security. He is the founder of null-The open security community, a registered not-for-profit organization and one of the largest security communities in Asia https://null.co.in and also organizes https://nullcon.net and https://hardwear.io security conferences. He is currently working on solving the IoT Security problem with his latest venture EXPLIoT. He is an active speaker and trainer at various security conferences like AusCERT, Black Hat, Defcon, Brucon, Hack.lu, Hack in Paris, Hack In The Box, PHDays, Zerocon and many more. He has authored various open source security software including:

Murtuja Bharmal is a cybersecurity entrepreneur with a 20-year track record in the industry. His accomplishments include the creation of a dynamic cybersecurity ecosystem encompassing "null - The open security community" (http://null.community), the well-known nullcon security conference (https://nullcon.net), and the Hardware Security Conference (https://hardwear.io). These platforms serve as essential hubs for connecting like-minded individuals, facilitating the exchange of cutting-edge research, building professional connections, and keeping organizations updated about the latest developments in the cybersecurity industry for their protection. Murtuja currently holds the position of Director of Services at Payatu, a leading provider of cybersecurity testing services. In this role, he oversees day-to-day operations, leveraging his extensive expertise to drive the company's growth.

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Anshuman is an Information Security Professional with more than a decade of experience in the security industry. He has worked with various organizations like Cigital, EMC, Intuit, Atlassian, Thirty Madison and currently at Lyft as Security Engineer.

At the core, he loves building programs from the scratch, working on difficult and interesting security engineering problems, innovating by using the latest technologies, exploring greenfield areas, and constantly pushing himself to learn something new on a daily basis.

He has given a workshop at Defcon'17 and spoken at conferences such as Black Hat Arsenal, Defcon Recon Village, Toorcon, Rootcon and AtlasCamp.

You can reach out to him on Twitter & LinkedIn,

Twitter - @anshuman_bh

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This episode is in association with Day of shecurity conference which happened in May 2023. In this episode we talk about our love for food, infosec journeys, career growth,communities & very insightful thoughts on taking breaks.

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Lakshmi Sudheer is a security professional with over a decade of experience in security. Currently, she leads the Application Security team at Netflix. She is passionate about security & mentoring aspirants who would like to enter or grow in the field of security. She has been a speaker at the Day of Shecurity conference

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In this episode listen to Vivek talk about how he was introduced to computers & how an internship in Switzerland helped him find his calling in infosec, his journey from SecurityTube.net to Pentester Academy , to writing comic-books for security enthusiast and eventually starting his current venture SquareX .

This episode brings you the exclusive story of Vivek's infosec journey which he confirmed about talking for the 1st time on a podcast.

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Vivek Ramachandran is the Founder of SquareX, which is building a productivity-first consumer security product and has raised a 6M USD seed round from Sequoia Capital SEA.

Previously, he was the Founder, CEO of Pentester Academy which trained thousands of customers from government agencies, Fortune 500 companies,

Vivek has been researching Wi-Fi security for over a decade. He discovered the Caffe Latte attack, broke WEP Cloaking, conceptualized enterprise Wi-Fi Backdoors, created Chellam (Wi-Fi Firewall), WiMonitor Enterprise (802.11ac monitoring), Chigula (Wi-Fi traffic analysis via SQL), Deceptacon (IoT Honeypots) and others. He is the author of multiple five star rated books on Wi-Fi security which have together sold over 20,000+ copies worldwide and have been translated to multiple languages.

He is a regular speaker/trainer at top security conferences such as Blackhat USA, Europe and Abu Dhabi, DEFCON, Brucon, HITB, Hacktivity and

Twitter - https://twitter.com/vivekramac

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In this episode, Minatee speaks about how she was introduced to infosec, her experience of being in a leadership role and advice for folks interested in moving to leadership role. She has a beautiful insight on how she deals with failures and criticism and also talks about the latest trends in infosec.

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Minatee Mishra, who is the Director of Product Security at Philips HealthTech, Bangalore. In her career of 25 years, she has rich experience in architecture, design, development, and is now responsible for securing systems. She has been instrumental in setting up the Security Center of Excellence (SCoE) in Philips. Under her leadership, SCoE got the medical industry first UL firm registration. She is also leading the Philips cross functional team for harmonizing the SBOM generation, Securing Cloud applications, DevSecOps and initiatives around secure development lifecycle.

She has a Masters in electrical engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and bachelor’s in engineering from NIT Rourkela. She holds CISSP, GCIH, CEH, CCSK certifications. She has been an advocate of product security at various national and international forums like HIMSS, RSA, DSCI,

She teaches underprivileged children, and likes spending time with family, doing yoga, reading and travelling.

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In episode we learn about how Farah got started with cybersecurity while she comes from media background. She talks about how she's passionate about content creation in cybersecurity. She also talks about some of the latest trends she sees in infosec and definetly has advice for folks starting out in the industry.

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Farah started her journey in cybersecurity 3 years ago while she was working on her media degree in Mumbai. After working a few internships and a full-time gig at Bugcrowd, she recently joined Meta and will be a part of their bug bounty team managing their Whitehat program. In her free time, she is also a part-time bug bounty hunter and cybersecurity content creator on various social media platforms.

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In this episode, Madhu talks about how he began his cybersecurity career, his experiences with bug bounty, the learning in his journey. He about folks who played a role in his journey of where he is today especially the communities he was associated with. He also has insightful advice to folks starting out.

Tune in to this fun episode to learn more about his journey.

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Madhu frequently speaks and runs training sessions at security events and conferences around the world. His research has identified vulnerabilities in over 200+ companies and organizations and is credited with multiple CVE’s, Acknowledgements, and rewards. He is co-author of Security Automation with Ansible2.

You can reach out to him on,

LinkedIn - Madhu Akula

Twitter - @madhuakula

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Kushaagra Mehra is a subject matter expert on deception tech and has spent the past five years helping organisations across several industry verticals build detection strategies and countermeasures. During his time at Smokescreen Technologies, he designed campaigns and implemented deception at scale for numerous organisations, including Fortune 500s. These days, he pairs his expertise on deception with zero trust networking at Zscaler to help key global enterprises and government organisations reduce their attack surface and defend against attacks by APTs. He calls Newcastle University his Alma mater, having earned his Masters degree in Computer Security and Resilience there. In his spare time, enjoys research and contributing to the community - previously as a moderator at null Mumbai, and more recently, mentoring students and young professionals.

You can reach out to him on,

LinkedIn - Kushaagra Mehra

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In this episode, Abhijeth talks about how he got hacked and began his cybersecurity career, his experiences with bug bounty, the learning and challenges in his journey. He makes it a point to give due credit to folks who played a role in his journey of where he is today especially the communities he was associated with. He also has insightful advice to folks starting out. Listen to what he has to say about, if not for infosec then what would be an alternative career for him?

Tune in to this fun episode to learn more about his journey.

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Abhijeth Dugginapeddi is an experienced Cyber Security leader and tech mentor with 12+ years of experience in the banking, digital media, e-commerce, education, and consulting sectors. He is currently the head of a large security team at BigCommerce, a lecturer at UNSW, and a mentor to Strobes, a security orchestration start-up. Abhijeth has been passionate about security engineering, penetration testing, and building best practices in application/mobile/cloud security since he was 14 years old and has spoken at multiple international conferences including Defcon, Blackhat, OWASP AppSec USA, and B-sides.

He has a keen interest in digital marketing, product design, and growth hacking. He is a dedicated volunteer for a not-for-profit organization, advocating for suicide prevention and raising awareness about mental health.

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Twitter - @abhijeth

LinkedIn - Abhijeth Dugginapeddi

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