Stories of Infosec Journeys - Indian Edition

Pooja has led & strategized large enterprise solutions in Cybersecurity - Identity & Access Management (IAM). She has close to 19 years of experience in Identity & Cybersecurity, she now leads IAM products and solutions at NXP.

Pooja is a noted speaker in multiple technology and Cybersecurity forums. She is currently associated with CSA (Cloud Security Alliance) Bangalore Chapter.

Pooja is an evangelist for women in cybersecurity. She works with diverse communities within her companies and with external groups. Pooja has been awarded as one of Top 20 Indian Women Influencers in Security for 2020 by SecurityToday. She was recently featured in “The Rise of the Cyber Women: Volume Two” book.

Her cybersecurity experience is backed by certifications like CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional). She has completed Design Thinking program from Emeritus in collaboration with MIT, Columbia, Tuck and MTech from BITS, Pilani. Additionally, she is pursuing PhD from PES, Bangalore.

In case you want to reach out to her, you can find her on 

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pooja-agrawalla/

Twitter – @PoojaAgrawalla

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Angelina Gokhale is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology, Pune. She holds a PhD, Masters and Bachelors degree in Computer Science. She also has a Masters degree in Business Management with Human Resources and Marketing Management as specialization subjects. Her doctoral work revolves around image forensics using deep learning techniques. She has 11 years of teaching experience. Her teaching and research interests include information security, image forensics, machine learning, and cyberpsychology.

In case you want to reach out to her, you can find her on twitter by the handle @AngieGokhi

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Shyam Sundar Ramaswami is a Senior Security Researcher with Cisco's Research and Efficacy team, a two-time TEDx speaker, and a cybersecurity teacher. Shyam is also a co-author of the book titled "It's your digital life". He has delivered talks for several conferences such as Black Hat (Las Vegas), Qubit Forensics (Serbia), Nullcon 2020 (Goa), Cisco Live (Barcelona), HackFest (Canada), DeepSec(Vienna), several universities, and IEEE forums in India. Shyam has also taught an "Advanced malware attacks and defences" class in Stanford University's cybersecurity program, which Great Lakes Institute powers and teaches threat intelligence/cyber forensics at Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology Pune. He runs a mentoring program called "Being Robin", where he mentors students all over the globe on cybersecurity. Shyam's interviews have been published on leading websites like ZDNet and CISO MAG.

In case you want to reach out to him, you can find him on twitter by the handle @hackerbat

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This episode is in association with Day of shecurity conference which happened on Oct 28th & 29, 2021. Bishakha Jain was a speaker at Day of Shecurity.

Bishakha currently works as a Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at IBM. She is an active Cybersecurity Evangelist and is appointed as the Associate Lead for Education and Awareness for IBM's community for women in Security called WISE for the India Chapter. She is an IBM Recognized Speaker/Presenter, Recognised Educator and also IBM‘s Be Equal Ambassador. She is the Brand Ambassador for the Women in Cloud Network. She serves as the Council Representative of the Public Safety and Security Council, West Bengal Chapter. She is also appointed as the General Board Member and Regional Director, India for Cyber Security Global Alliance. She has been a speaker at various conferences globally.

In case you want to reach out to her, you can find her on twitter by the handle @euphoricbint 

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Manoj Abraham is currently the Additional Director General of Police, Thiruvananthapuram, and the Head of Cyber Security, for Kerala state.

He has done a lot of work in the area of Community policing- Maitri and Janamaitri. He has also coauthored a book called- Global Community Policing- Problems and Prospects, published by Taylor and Francis Publications.

He is the Chief architect of the c0c0n conference held annually on the theme of public private partnership for enhancing cyber-Security. He is also the Architect of Cyber Dome-a centre for private public participation in cyber policing, which has become a model center for Cyber Security in the PPP domain. He has won many National and International awards in the area of cybercrimes and cyber security which includes the INTERPOL honour "Be a champion for child protection" for the work done with regards to preventing online crimes against children.

He also heads the Banking frauds Division, Cyber Research Division, Kerala Sports and Kerala Police Welfare Division, the CSN Stadium, the Police Canteens and has been attributed for bringing many innovative changes in these areas of Police work.

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Day of Shecurity - October 28th & 29th, 2021

c0c0n 2021 - November 10th - 13th, 2021

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

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

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

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Day of Shecurity - October 28th & 29th, 2021

c0c0n 2021 - November 10th - 13th, 2021

Saumil Shah is the founder and CEO of Net-Square. He is an internationally recognised cyber-security researcher, hacker, speaker, instructor and entrepreneur for over 25 years. He has regularly presented at conferences like Blackhat, RSA, CanSecWest, PacSec, EUSecWest, Hack.lu, Hack-in-the-box and others. He has authored two books titled “Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense” and “The Anti-Virus Book”.

He spends his leisure time breaking software, flying kites, travelling around the world and taking pictures.

In case you want to reach out to him, you can find him on twitter by the handle @therealsaumil.

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Amol Naik is a CISO at an Indian Ed-Tech company. He has about 16+ years of experience and has led multiple teams in both the offensive and defensive side of security. Apart from helping and building a security program for organizations, he finds his interests in Security Research, Bug Bounties, Vulnerability Research and Exploit Development. He is also an author of a playground focused on learning the exploitation of client-side web vulnerabilities - Bodhi. He is an active member at various Infosec Communities and has also been a speaker & trainer at multiple conferences like NullCon, c0c0n & Ground Zero Summit.

In case you want to reach out to him, you can find him on twitter by the handle @amolnaik4.

Riyaz Walikar is a co-founder at Kloudle. He is a CKA, CKAD, OSCP and CREST certified cloud security evangelist and has also been a speaker/trainer at multiple hacker conferences around the world including BlackHat, DefCON, OWASP AppsecUSA, nullcon and c0c0n. He has been active with the security community for the last 13 years.

He has been a chapter leader at Null Bangalore and is currently one of the chapter leader for OWASP Bangalore.

You can find him on twitter by the handle @riyazwalikar and LinkedIn by the name Riyaz Walikar

Jayesh Singh Chauhan is a Director of Product Security at Sprinklr & Founder of Cloud Village at DEF CON.

He is a security professional with 10 years of experience and has presented at various conferences like BlackHat Arsenal (USA, EU Asia), DEF CON DemoLabs, HackMiami, OWASP & c0c0n. He has authored several tools, including CS-Suite, OWASP Skanda, RFID_Cloner, and CSRF PoC generator.

He has also been a chapter leader at Null Bangalore chapter. You can find him on twitter by the handle @jayeshsch.