Speaker Bio:  

Vishak Raman
Sr. Regional Director, Fortinet
Mr. Vishak Raman, Regional Director, SAARC & Saudi Arabia, Fortinet, has spearheaded the company’s operations since it entry into the Indian market seven years ago. He is an active advocate of pro-active security environments and a die-hard UTM evangelist, Vishak is credited with having built, ground up, the Fortinet UTM success story in India. He was also instrumental in setting up the first of its kind, Technical Assistance Centre (TAC) at Bangalore that provides 24 x 7 technical support for worldwide Fortinet customers.
Anand Prahlad
Vice President, Engineering - R&D Center, McAfee
Anand comes with over 20 years of experience working on Enterprise software solutions and brings an interesting mix of security and storage experience.He spent 16 years of his career at CommVault Systems (NASDAQ: CVLT), where he was Senior Vice President of WW Product Development. He was a key member of the executive team that led CommVault through a successful IPO in 2006.Anand is a prolific inventor and has authored or co-authored over 35 patents in the area of computer storage management.Apart from his computing interests, Anand is also an active angel investor and is part of the Indian Angel Network.
Vijay Mirji
Vice President and Head Information Security, Mphasis
Vijay is the World-wide head of Mphasis’ Information Security business. He is a dynamic professional with vast amounts of experience in Information Security and its application to the benefit of business organizations across the world. He has helped companies solve governance related problems and internal systemic problems in equal measure. Vijay has worked with different technologies in the info sec field spanning user and entitlement security, data and application security, technologies that support monitoring and forensics, and technologies that enable regulatory compliance and corporate governance.
Parag Deodhar
Chief Risk Officer & Vice President – Program Management & Process Excell, Bharti AXA
Parag is the Chief Risk Officer & Vice President for Program management and Process Excellence at Bharti AXA.Parag is a Chartered Accountant, Certified Information Systems Auditor from ISACA, USA and Certified Fraud Examiner from ACFE, USA.He is also BS7799 Certified Lead Auditor.He has over 14 years of experience in Enterprise Risk Management, Information Security and Audit and Consulting.In his previous assignments, Parag has worked with KPMG, AXA Business Services, Deutsche Bank and Mahindra British Telecom.
Maninder Bharadwaj
Director, Enterprise Risk Services, Deloitte
Maninder is a Director with Deloitte in Enterprise Risk Services and focuses on Information Technology Risk. He has extensive experience in various aspects of Information Technology Risk and Information Security Consulting. He is the national lead for Vulnerability Management.Maninder has led multiple projects in areas of Information Security Strategy and Roadmap, Two Factor Authentication, RBAC, Information Security Policy and Procedures, Vulnerability Management / Ethical Hacking, Web Portal Security, Software License Compliance, Role Management for SAP, Information Security Architecture, IT General Computer Controls, SoX and Managed Security Services.
Santhosh Srinivasan
Director - Shared Services, HCL Technologies (Infrastructure Services Division)
Santhosh have an extensive work experience in IT Infrastructure management and Information Security. He had previously held multiple leadership roles, as the Director of Global Information Risk Management/Information Security/Disaster Recovery and Asia Pacific Leader for IT Infrastructure Services at Cummins, Inc. His specialties are in IT Infrastructure management and Information Security leadership. He have been Certified with CRISC, CISSP, CISA, CGEIT, CISM, CEH, GSLC, MCSE NT/2000/2003, ITIL foundations.
Dr Debabrata Nayak
Head-Technology Industry Management & Chairman of Senior Security Expert Consultant (R&D), Huawei
Dr.Debabrata Nayak has completed his PhD in wireless security from IIT Bombay. And has been working on security domain in last 18 years. He has been working in Huawei technology as Director of Security and Head of Technology Industry management covering wide areas such as Security system Performance evaluation, Design of secure cryptographic system, Wireless Security policy design and implementation. He designed Security solution for INFINET (Indian Financial Network for RBI).IPv6 migration of INFINET.IPv6 Security for Indian financial network with C-DoT ,Leading IPv6 migration and security strategies in Huawei platform. Currently he is the Head of Patent Board of Huawei HTIPL.
K Venkatesh Murthy
Programme Manager – Cyber Labs, DSCI
As technical expert at Cyber Crime Police Station, CID, Bangalore Venkatesh Murthy has provided technical assistance to the Investigating officers of criminal cases registered under Information Technology Act. Some of the important cases includes VINIV-INC investment fraud, HSBC BPO Fraud, Keylogger case and Credit card and other online offenses. In the current role as Program Manager- Cyber labs, he manages 8 cyber labs across the country established in the respective State Police Headquarters/Academy and he is Actively involved in assisting the law enforcement in setting up Cyber Forensics Laboratory/Cyber lab.
Dhiwakar Viswanathan
Head of chipcard and security R&D, Infineon
Dhiwakar Viswanathan is the head of Chip Card and Security group in the Bangalore centre of Infineon Technologies India Private Limited. He has worked in the Chip Card area for over 12 years developing OS, applications for Chip Cards and Chip Card based applications. He holds two patents, one on memory management and one on secure implementation.
Sony Anthony
Associate Director - Management Consulting , KPMG
Sony Anthony has over 15+ years of experience in delivery of IT Advisory services with special focus on Information Security, Enterprise Architecuture, Business Continuity, Network and Data Center Architecture Design, IT Strategy.He drives and develops the Information Security business by conducting global security audits for Fortune 50 clients on PT/vA Infrastructure and applications.As a Technologist he has worked on Virtulization/Consolidation, Routing/Switching, SAN/NAS, Backup/Archival/Restore Technologies, Enterprise Monitoring and Management and Security/Filtering.As an Advisor to organizations he has assisted in Information Protection(ISO27001), TIA-942(Non-IT of DC), HIPAA(PHI-Privacy/Security), BCM(BS25999), ISO20000(ITIL)
Josey George
Practice Head, Enterprise Security Solutions , Wipro Technologies
Josey V George is the Practice Head for Mobile Security, Fraud Risk Management & Security Assurance, in Wipro’s Enterprise Security Solutions Practice. Josey was amongst the initial founding members of Wipro&rsquot;s Security Practice rated by Forrester as the fastest growing amongst IT Service providers worldwide. Josey has more than 14 years of IT Security experience in the industry working with Wipro’s leading customers in the BFSI, Retail and Telecom space.
Arif Shouqi
Solutions Architect, Asia and Pacific Region, Cisco
Arif has a background in defence networks, design and architecture of networking devices and software. Have a Masters Degree from IIT Delhi.
Praveen Karunakaran
Security Lead - Enterprise Cloud Services, HP
Praveen is a Security Enginnering Consultant/Architect with over a decade of IT experience where core experience is in Security Engineering & Architecture Domain. Designed and developed security solutions for Cloud and Virtual environments. Expert in Endpoint Threat Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Vulnerability Management, Endpoint Encryption and Data Loss Prevention Solutions in Heterogeneous Environments. He is been awarded with Certification in Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSP-ISSAP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), MCSE & MCDBA.
Amitabh Jacob
Director - Channels, India & SAARC, RSA-security division of EMC
Amitabh Jacob, Head Channels & Commercial Business, India & SAARC, RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is responsible for fostering and managing RSA channel relationships as well as empowering channel partners to go to market with effective information-centric solutions from RSA that meet customers’ needs. Additionally, he is responsible for taking RSA solutions to customers in Mid Market segment, thereby helping them meet today’s complex security demands to mitigate business risks.
Harshvardhan Parmar
Project Manager, Paladion
Harshavardhan is the Editor of Palisade, Online security magazine and author of articles “Cookie attributes and their importance”, “Common flaws in forgot password implementation” and “Implementing a Secure Forgot Password Solution”. He is an expert in performing various types of application and infrastructure security assessments and has an expertise in assessing the security of Online Banking, Stock Trading & financial systems