India is spearheading rapid digital development, and its progressive policies will likely shape the cybersecurity trajectory in 2025. However, such digital advancements make the country susceptible to sophisticated cybercrime incidents.
Cybersecurity Summit: New Delhi will feature discussions on managing risk and preparing for the generative AI era, the impact of APIs on the future of business governance, building custom-built IT architectures, unlocking innovation through CISO leadership, and more.
Join us to gain insights on how leaders are spearheading excellence across technology implementations, crafting unique user experiences to drive innovative, secure and insightful business growth. You can also earn your CPE credits by attending the summit.
Our Summit Advisory Committee comprises industry visionaries whose guidance ensures the conference programs remain relevant, cutting-edge, and aligned with the most pressing cybersecurity challenges and opportunities – enabling attendees to apply the insights and learnings to their daily work.
An internationally recognized cybersecurity mentor, Lt. Gen. Nair serves as the National Cyber Security Coordinator in the National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India. He is responsible for coordinating all activities across multiple sectors to ensure a secure and resilient cyberspace within the nation.
Gen. Nair was commissioned into the Corps of Signals of the Indian Army in 1984. He held several key appointments at all levels of military hierarchy, including multiple tenures in the Kashmir Valley and North East India. He has used technology for deriving operational benefits in areas of intelligence gathering and information systems. He also was instrumental in steering several projects on AI, quantum, cryptology and cyber operations, while serving with the armed forces.
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To adequately tackle this increasing risk, a new approach is required that integrates data security and data protection to create cyber resilience strategies. These strategies should not only mitigate risk but also improve preparedness to ensure rapid response and recovery.
Attackers possessing advanced AI tools have emerged on cybercriminal forums, developing their versions of AI tools to bypass security
technologies currently in use. While AI has spurred the advancement of authentication controls such as anomaly detection and predictive modeling, it has also made voice cloning and video deepfakes more convincing.
In this AI versus AI battle, it is important to understand how cybercriminals leverage generative AI tools such as ChatGPT to create more effective email attacks and how organizations can protect themselves.
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Dr. Charru Malhotra, Professor (e-Governance and ICT), Indian Institute of Public Administration
This challenge is particularly critical during the implementation stage of cloud applications, which can be complex when integrating cloud-native application platforms with existing infrastructure. As cloud environments become more dynamic and complex, establishing and maintaining visibility, control, robust security, compliance, effective cost management, and scalability adds to the difficulty. To address these challenges, security leaders need to develop a comprehensive solution.
The session will cover:
Ankit Wasnik, Security Solutions Architect, Qualys
India needs to implement a holistic approach to cybersecurity to combat the challenge posed by escalating cybercrime and financial fraud.
At a macro level, India’s aspirations to become a $5 trillion economy are linked to its ability to withstand and mitigate cyberthreats that could potentially cripple the nation’s critical infrastructure. What steps should be taken to make the nation cybersecure? What frameworks can enhance accountability for protecting the national cyberspace?
The session will cover:
Lt. Gen. (Retd.) M Unnikrishnan Nair, National Cyber Security Coordinator, National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India.
These incidents weave together elements of social engineering, financial fraud and the challenges posed by emerging technological threats. AI has significantly affected the landscape of cyber deception and deepfakes, presenting unique challenges for security practitioners to defend against malicious activities. Building a resilience and response strategy to combat these incidents has become an imperative for CISOs.
Experts say every organization needs to establish a multifaceted strategy that combines technological innovation, regulatory frameworks, education, and a resilience and response road map.
The session will cover:
Mohit Kalra, Chief Information Security Officer, ORIX Leasing and Financial Services
Lt. Col. (Retd.) Harkamal Sidhu, VP -Strategic Projects-Cyber & IT, TM Systems
Sandeep Khanna, Director (Information Security) & CISO, UIDAI
Ashu Agrawal, Chief Information Security Officer, Raphe mPhibr
By prioritizing the diverse identities of users, IAM can become a powerful tool for enhancing security, personalization and inclusivity within an organization.
Exploring the integration of IAM into the various aspects of authentication mechanisms, access controls and identity governance in an enterprise is critical to demystify the identity-first approach and its relevance in modern IAM systems. It is vital to understand how this approach can provide positive outcomes, including enhanced user satisfaction, improved compliance with diversity and inclusion policies, and stronger security postures.
The session will cover:
Sujith Immanuel Pellican, Head of IT Security, ManageEngine
There has been a compelling need to develop a cybersecurity strategy that incorporates agility, DevOps and IT as core elements in adopting a “shift left” approach. With the rise of AI applications, particularly in the software development life cycle (SDLC) process, organizations are reaping the benefits of achieving faster time to market. But they are equally challenged with emerging vulnerabilities and risks associated with AI adoption.
CISOs face the daunting tasks of managing newer risks, establishing a competitive advantage and enabling business growth amid the growing complexities associated with the traditional approaches to AppSec. This propels the need for building a robust and secure coding and DevOps platform.
The session will cover:
Kartik Dedhia, Staff Solutions Engineer, Snyk
According to recent reports, India has become a prominent target for nation-state cyberattacks. It accounts for 13% of cyberattacks in the Asia-Pacific region and ranks among the top three most-attacked countries by nation-state actors. While India was the second most-targeted country for transmission control protocol attacks last year, recent geopolitical shifts have seen it drop to fifth place. The report also highlights that an organization in India faced an average of 2,807 attacks per week, a 33% year-on-year increase, making it one of the most targeted nations worldwide.
Despite these threats, many organizations are poorly equipped to protect against geopolitically motivated cyberattacks. It is crucial to recognize these risks and proactively fortify defenses.
CEOs and boards are now asking: Are we prepared to mitigate the escalating cyber risks associated with geopolitical tensions? Although cyberattacks have long been a part of geopolitical conflict, their frequency is increasing with the advancement of cyber weapons. What changes are needed, and are enterprises adequately equipped to build stronger cyber shields, which encourage the development of stronger cyber weapons? How are organizations building cyber resiliency?
The session will cover:
Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Rajesh Pant, Former National Cyber Security Coordinator, National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India
Computer systems and applications require identity verification before allowing users access to organizational IT infrastructure. The question that arises would be whether new technologies for threat detection will encroach on privacy in an enterprise.
The session will cover:
Tanin Chakraborty, Senior Director – Global Data Privacy Officer, Biocon Biologics
Baidyanath Kumar, Chief Information Security Officer, JK Lakshmi Cement Ltd.
Pavithra S Iyengar, Data Privacy Officer, Emirates NBD
Potential vulnerabilities in the cloud may occur at the cloud service provider, data location, supply chain or third-party suppliers. As we see a greater momentum toward the cloud, security leaders are faced with questions such as: Who is responsible for what is in the cloud? How to navigate a shared responsibility model? What would be an ideal service-level agreement between third-party suppliers, cloud service providers and organizations? What is the role of a CISO in navigating the risks?
The session will cover:
Lakshmi Narasimhan, CISO – Vice President, Intellect Design Arena Ltd
Preeti Singh, Director – Information Security & GRC, OSTTRA
Securing the entire IT, OT and IoT infrastructure requires a high degree of obsolescence management, routine vulnerability monitoring, patch management, training the workforce on cybersecurity regulations and protocols, establishing a proactive security strategy, and mitigating human element in data breaches.
This session will discuss the challenges security leaders need to confront to build a holistic security architecture.
The session will cover:
Some Nath Kundu, Senior Cybersecurity Officer (Greater India Zone) Governance, Schneider Electric
Bithal Bhardwaj, Group CISO, GMR Group
Aditya Vardhan, Chief Information Security Officer, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.
Subhash Chand, CISO, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute
Enterprises must strive to stay informed regarding the realities and misconceptions surrounding the darkweb.
Using the darkweb and cryptocurrencies, criminals have been able to run a very successful “crime-as-a-service” model. But, business and security agencies have not been able to do much in terms of disrupting such criminal operations. What steps can CISOs take to make their enterprises cybercrime resilient?
The session will cover:
Samir Datt, Founder & CEO, Foundation Futuristic Technologies
CISOs must know how to track the movements of the enemy with smart systems and intentions. It is important for organizations to understand how attackers find their way through multiple lines of defense, and that survival – or what we call “resilience” in business and cyber terms – depends on having more lines of defense than an attacker can overcome.
The session will cover:
Kanishk Gaur, Founder, India Future Foundation
Dr. Yusuf Hashmi, Group CISO, Jubilant Bhartia Group
Siddharth Vijay, AVP- Engineering, Baazi Games
Cdr Sanjeev Singh (Retd.), CISO and Data Protection Officer, Birlasoft
An interactive session with leading passionate security practitioners making efforts to build competencies and skills to enable their organizations to put the right foot forward in responding to threats and attacks. As the cyber warriors of tomorrow, the practitioners need to understand the skill gaps that exist in the cybersecurity industry and how to bridge them in building the right resources, be it around soft skills, technological skills, and building an ethical approach towards the right decision making.
They need to understand the changing regulatory dynamics from the regulatory bodies across sectors and compliance demands in meeting their technological and organizational cybersecurity objectives, in the path towards building cyber resiliency.
Another valuable lesson would be around preparation for complying with the DPDP Act and understanding the consequences of non-compliance and consequences.
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