Speaker Bio:  

Shantanu Ghosh
Vice President,Enterprise Security & India Product, Operations, Symantec
Shantanu Ghosh is Vice President for India Product Operations at Symantec Corporation. He spearheads Symantec’s India Innovation centres in Pune and Chennai. In his previous role, Shantanu headed the Security and Data Management group at Symantec India. He has been instrumental in building a significant R&D footprint for Symantec enterprise security products in Pune. Shantanu joined Symantec through the BindView Corporation acquisition over four years ago. He was Vice President of Engineering at BindView and responsible for setting up, building and running its largest R&D center in Pune, India. Shantanu has over 20 years of industry experience, most of it in product development, in different technical and management capacities in India and the USA. Shantanu has a BE in Electronics from REC, Allahabad.
Subbaraju Uppalapati
Manager - Identity and Security Team, Novell
Mr. Subbaraju Uppalapati is the position of Manager in the Identity and Security Team at Novell. He joined Novell 12 years ago and since then he is delivering his expertise to the company through various Identity and Access Management systems in the process. Mr. Uppalapati who has done M.Tech in Digital Electronics and Communication Systems has ample achievements to share with. He worked on various products like Network File System, Border Manager and Access Manager. Mr. Uppalapati is currently leading the development team in the Identity and Security space at Novell India Development Centre, Bangalore.
Bipin Kumar Amin
Borderless Networks - Security, Cisco
Bipin is the principle consultant for BN Security based out of Mumbai. He comes with 19 years of industry experience, out of which 13 years in Information Security industry. He has worked with Brocade, McAfee and as a independent consultant to top consulting firms in India.
Nilanjan De
Co-founder & CTO, iViZ
Nilanjan has done his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication from IIT Kharagpur. His technical area of expertise is in Vulnerability Research and Exploitation Techniques, Network Security, Kernel Security etc. He has been successfully leading the product development and research in core security areas related to reverse engineering, exploitation etc. He is well-known in the security community and has published several exploits and advisories for the first time in the world.
Manish Kumar
Founder & CEO, Rooman Technologies
Manish Kumar is the CEO and Founder of Rooman Technologies Pvt Ltd, which is involved in high-end corporate training on computer Hardware, Networking and Network Security in India. Rooman has 60 centers all over India and expanding further. In his previous roles, Manish was the Technical Manager of India’s renowned Hardware & Networking Training Organization and a worked as a Consultant to Cyber Crime Cell, Bangalore. He has several technical certifications to his credit, ISS Certified Specialist (ISS-CS), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator, BS 7799 Certified Lead Auditor, to name a few. He was among the first 100 candidates in India to achieve MCSA certification from Microsoft and first 10 candidates to achieve CCSA/CCSE certification from Checkpoint. He is the member of Checkpoint Forum to support Firewall/VPN related issues during 1999-2002. He is among the first few candidates worldwide to complete CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) and CHFI (Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator). Voted as one of the best Trainers to handle Ethical Hacking and Computer Forensics topics. He has Conducted 100+ seminars and workshop on Network Security awareness.
Anand Tapikar
Technical Manager, Websense
Anand has around 14 years of experience in information security, compliance & technology. He is an engineering graduate & carries multiple certifications like CISA, CGEIT, PMP and multiple technology certifications. He also carries vast process knowledge of Six sigma, LEAN and ITIL based certification.
Sanjeev Kumar Verma
Project Manager, Paladion
Sanjeev Kumar Verma is responsible for enterprise application security practice for South East Asia at Paladion. He is also a regular contributor in the online security magazine Palisade and a frequent speaker in application security forums.
Thiru Annadorai
Principal Consultant,Risk & Compliance, Security, MindTree
Thiruvadinathan Annadorai (Thiru), Principal Consultant – Risk & Compliance, Security services at MindTree Ltd. Thiru has more than 14 years of experience in system, network & information security in products and services. He has his passion in GRC and harnessing security & compliance initiatives with business through governance and information risk management. He has worked with many of Fortune 500 companies. Thiru has also performed as a senior information security officer accountable for organization-wide risk management, security and compliance for Polaris Software Labs Ltd, a global BFSI focused IT services provider. He had been with Wipro Technologies and has experience in working with global business houses in US and Europe and especially with large banking and financial institutions. Prior to Wipro Technologies, Thiru worked with AT&T Solutions in NJ, US, as a security expert as part of a larger stint with Ramco Systems Ltd, based in Chennai, India. Thiru also has his passions in Cricket, travel, music, going for a long drive and loves to be with his family and friends.
Kartik Shahani
Country Manager, RSA India & SAARC, RSA
Kartik Shahani is Country Manager for RSA, The Security division of EMC. Based in Mumbai, he is responsible for leading RSA’s business operations in the region and growing sales of the company’s offerings in the area of security solutions for business acceleration. Kartik came to RSA with an illustrious track record, having held senior positions with McAfee India Sales Pvt. Ltd. and Netmagic. At both companies, he was instrumental in the complete turnaround of their operations. Kartik also played a key role in setting up the High End Production Systems group at Xerox India. Kartik has worked in various capacities from a Programmer, Field Engineer, Enterprise Sales Manager to grow to the position of a Regional Leader during his distinguished career. Kartik holds an Engineering Degree from the University of Bombay and an MBA from the University of New England, Australia.
Bikram Barman
Senior Manager, Engineering, Products, RSA
Bikram Barman is a seasoned technology professional with over 14 years of experience across multiple technologies and domains. He is currently a Senior Engineering Manager at RSA, The Security Division of EMC leading products and solutions engineering teams focussed on Virtualization & Cloud Security. He has been a key contributor to Cloud Security Alliance Guidelines (Virtualization Security in the Cloud) and several articles on Cloud and Virtualization security. He is also on the board of directors for CSA - Bangalore Chapter.
Ajit Pillai
Regional Director, India/ Middle East, NIKSUN Inc
NIKSUN corporation is a 100 M + privately held US Multinational company based out of New Jersey specialized on Network management, Cyber security and Network Forensics. A very well known Security Professional and has been associated with Indian Security and Networking Industry for the last 15 years. He has been instrumental in setting up various MNC Security companies in the SAARC region to name a few…Trend Micro, Watch Guard technologies, Secure computing etc… He was one of the pioneers to evangelize and build market for UTM technology in the India . Prior to this he was the country Manager for McAfee, Network Security Business Unit(NSBU) for the SAARC region.
Vinod Muniyappa
Practice Head - Application Security, Wipro Technologies
Vinod Muniyappa, is currently Practice Head - Application Security at Wipro Technologies. He manages a group of 800+ consultants. He has successfully built a strong team of application & data security practice within Wipro that has been rated as the leader by independent Analysts and a regular speaker in Industry events and Analyst briefings. He works closely with CSO & Security Director to define Enterprise Security Strategy. His areas of Specialization include, Identity and Access Management : Consulting, Product Evaluation, Business Case definition, ROI, Roadmap Definition, Architecture, Design & Implementation, Federated Identity Management. Application Assessment: Secure SDLC process definition, Application security assurance assessment, white box testing, vulnerability assessment. Data Privacy & Security Solutions : Encryption, Database Security, PKI solutions, Transaction Security, Mobile Security. His current interests are in helping customers meet their compliance and audit goals with seamless integration of GRC and IAM platforms and in helping customers mitigate the risks from Applications Security Vulnerability.
Venkat Krishnapur
Senior Director of Engineering, McAfee
Venkat Krishnapur is the Senior Director of Engineering at McAfee. He currently oversees all of the Engineering activities for the Consumer Business Unit in the McAfee India Center (MIC). Venkat’s teams are involved in the development, customization, testing and delivery of the consumer products and also the portals for McAfee’s online business and its partners. Venkat joined McAfee in June 2003 and comes with wide experience in the IT field having worked in both Application and Software Development environments having worked in Hindustan Aeronautics Limited since 1985 and subsequently for Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) which is based in Massachusetts, USA from 1994. He holds an Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and is an M.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. His other interests are music, cricket, table tennis and is an avid news watcher. He has played Western classical music on the piano with certificates from the Trinity College of Music, London and also South Indian Classical music on the Veena and the Mridangam.
Varadarajan Kannan
Regional Manager – Enterprise Sales, Symantec
Varadarajan Kannan is a Mechanical Engineer from REC Surathkal ( 1987) with an MBA from Pondicherry University (1993), he majored in Marketing, Consumer Behaviour and Finance. He has been involved in several prestigious Railway Signalling projects in India and overseas from estimation, to sales to project management while at Sundram Clayton prior to taking up management in 1991.He has nearly two decades of experience in sales and marketing in IT. He has worked extensively for several enterprises while at Wipro, Oracle and Sun Microsystems and looks back with pride in having been associated with several industries like BFSI, Telecom, Manufacturing. He has been involved in the transformation of several core banking initiatives in the banking segment from concept to commissioning and in core business applications while at Oracle. With over four years in Symantec, his current responsibility is to lead Sales for Enterprise Accounts in the Southern Region and assist them around Security, IT Governance and data protection and disaster recovery in the data center. He is married with two children and has a passion for Cricket, Tennis and music.
Prasanna Bhaskaran
Security Consultant, System Engineering Group, Check Point Software
Prasanna Bhaskaran is a Security Consultant with Check Point Software Technologies – Indian Subcontinent. He belongs to the System Engineering Group responsible for architecting and consulting the Enterprise Security Solutions for the small to large organizations. Prasanna is also responsible for pre-sales and Channel enablement activities across the southern region. He has a rich hands-on experience in the domain of Networking & Security for over 5 years. Prasanna holds Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electrical & Electronics.
Sikhivahan Gundu
Senior Development Manager, Juniper Networks
Sikhivahan Gundu is a Senior Development Manager in the Access and Acceleration Business Unit of Juniper Networks India, Pvt Ltd. He has more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry, the last five of which were devoted largely to developing Junipers SSLVPN product. He holds a masters in Computer Science and Engineering and IISc, Bangalore.
Kartik Kumar CDS
Senior Engineer, Juniper Networks
Kartik CDS is a Senior Engineer in the Access and Acceleration Business Unit of Juniper Networks India, Pvt Ltd. And has 8 years of experience in the IT industry, and is involved in the development of Junipers SSLVPN product since 3 yrs . He holds a masters in Software Systems from BITS Pilani, and has filed 4 Patent Applications in the Field of Networking and Telecom.
Rajiv Motwani
Manager, Product Security Engineering, Citrix R&D India
Rajiv has completed his Bachelors in Computer Science from P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore. After working at the Hewlett Packard Storage Research Labs for a while, he decided to pursue a Masters in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. More recently, he has completed his MBA (specializing in Strategy and Marketing) from IIM Bangalore, Indias premier B-school. Currently, he is Manager, Product Security Engineering at Citrix R&D India. Prior to Citrix, he led a team of vulnerability researchers at McAfee s AVERT Research Labs for the Host Intrusion Prevention product and more recently a team of researchers at Third Brigade (an Intrusion Prevention start-up acquired by Trend Micro in May 2009).
Jaimon Jose
Distinguished Engineer, Novell Inc
Jaimon Jose is the architect for Identity Manager and Cloud security products. He has been with Novell for over 13 years working on various security technologies including the Novells flagship directory services, eDirectory.He has extensive experiences in building scalable and secure enterprise identity systems. He has also worked on various operating systems and platforms during his tenure with Novell. He represents Novell in various standard organizations like IETF, OpenGroup and DMTF.