Bangalore: Cyberspace has become one of the most important frontiers like homeland, border and coast. To collaborate on new approaches to address today's ever-growing cyber security threats, NIKSUN with SiliconIndia organized World Wide Security & Mobility Conference on April 12 in New Delhi.This event was well accepted by more than 400 professionals from different security and network related industries.

Dr. Parag Pruthi inaugurated the event by extending his thoughts on Cyber Security Defense, the Challenges & State of the Art where he expressed that cyber offenses and weapons are cheap which costs about $2 billion to build a stealth bomber whereas it costs less than $3500 to build a cyber weapon; cyber weapons can also be purchased very cheaply on eBay and other web sites; thus any country can become powerful quickly and any criminal gang can do theft cheaply and without risk from across the border.

 3 main problem areas in Cyberspace are: one - state sponsored cyber offense, attacks and stealing government secrets, two - cyber espionage i.e. stealing intellectual property, blue prints and business plans and three – Hacktivists, the groups like anonymous and  lulzsec” says Dr. Pruthi. Apart from addressing the above issues, he also threw light on next generation solutions and case studies, where attacks have been stopped and criminals have been caught and prosecuted.

Addressing the session on “Impact of IPv6 on Network Security”, R.M. Agarwal, DDG - Networks & Technologies from Department of Telecomm said, “Due to extensive usage of NATTing in Ipv4 networks, IPSec can’t be implemented properly and makes networks very complicated. By transiting to IPv6 based networks in a planned and systematic manner, most of the cyber threat issues and problems can be resolved to some extent”

The other eminent speakers from government organizations such as Ministry of Home Affairs, State Crime Research Bureau, Ministry of Communications & IT, Ministry of Defence, National Informatic Centre, and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing also shared their views & thoughts.

This exciting event concluded with a panel discussion on ‘Enterprise Security: Protecting Business in the New World Order’ and this stimulating panel was steered by Burgess Cooper, Vice President of Vodafone Essar.The panel threw light on how organizations should identify their plan to address the risk while outsourcing business processes as it is important to rank the vendors and ensure that the level of assessment that commensurates with the risk associated with the vendor.

“Before embarking on the BYOD journey, the organization should clearly identify the drivers for BYOD and weigh the cost benefit keeping in mind the cost of enhanced controls needed to manage security on disparate devices” said Rishi Mehta, Sr.VP & Chief Information Security Officer from Religare who was one of the panelists.

The other panelists who elaborated the discussion are Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, CSO APAC at British Telecom, Saurabh Agarwal, Deputy General Manager - Information Security of Uninor and Sandeep Khare, Sr. Group Manager of Risk Management at WNS Global Services.

This Event was supported by IIT Delhi and IEEE.