~ CISO AWARDS

~ THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

~ CONFERENCE

~ TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

~ P2P EXCHANGES

ALL UNDER ONE ROOF…

MOST PROLIFIC SECURITY EVENT OF INDIA!

November 22 - 23 rdHotel Hyatt Regency. Gurgaon (India)

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Event Overview

Information Security is no more a mere solution or isolated component of entire IT strategy; it is today an integral part of IT strategy. Role of CISOs are transforming more into a strategic one. While role of a CISO is becoming more & more crucial, it is surprising to see that in most organizations they are deprived from proper recognition and very precisely termed as 'Unsung Heroes'. ‘INFOSEC MAESTROS’ Awards is the best ever initiative to inspire the innovative, talented and hard working information security professionals across the verticals, across the nation.

EVENT AT A GLANCE

INFOSEC MAESTROS AWARDS

‘INFOSEC MAESTROS’ Awards is the best ever initiative to inspire the innovative, talented and hard working information security professionals across the verticals, across the nation. If you are the person, standing in between the intruder and your organization’s most valuable information, then don’t wait. You’ll be surrounded by the nation’s most accomplished IT security leaders, all focused on sharpening the connection between innovation, IT security value and financial success.

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE

Global security vendors, consultants, domestic security players and security auditing farms are cordially invited to showcase their industry leadership, product strength and technology expertise at India’s most prolific information security event.

CAMP WITH CHAMPS

Apart from the award ceremony, technology showcase, insightful debates and peer-to-peer exchange as part of business agenda, number of entertainment and break-out sessions have been planned like music, magic and beyond… In a nutshell, a 360° approach of recognision, technology, entertainment, information, leadership and networking.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIPS

Listen and connect with informed opinion leaders and the go-to people in their field of expertise. They are trusted sources who move and inspire people with innovative ideas; turn ideas into reality, and know and show how to replicate their success. They create a dedicated group of friends, fans and followers to help them replicate and scale those ideas into sustainable change not just in one company but in an industry, niche or across an entire ecosystem.

THE CONFERENCE

The Conference at INFOSEC MAESTROS Awards in day time aims to bring India’s most respected & renowned CISOs from private, public and govt organizations and global security experts under one roof to discuss national information security, evolving complex security threats, emerging state-sponsored attacks and possible effective intelligent solutions. You’ll be surrounded by the nation’s most accomplished IT security professionals, all focused on sharpening the connection between innovation, IT security value and financial success.

P2P EXCHANGE

Witness a grand gathering of industry renowned CISOs, Analysts, Risk Managers, Consultants, Security Professionals and Auditors and explore the networking opportunity to harness maximum business benefits. We strongly believe that this event will provide a networking environment to meet and learn from professionals around the state who share similar challenges and requirements. It will bring together a captive audience of 150+ CISOs / Senior Information Security / Risk Professionals to take a closer look at the conflicts arising from the rapidly expanding responsibilities of the CISO.

Judging Process

Submissions for ‘INFOSEC MAESTROS’ Awards must align with the category for which they are nominated and are judged based upon completeness and accuracy of the information provided. Nominations are also judged based on the overall influence, effectiveness and success of the nominees’ project, initiative or improvement. Nominators may be contacted by any member of panel of juries. The panel of 11 judges selected, each represent a different segment of industry and bring to the forum their extensive knowledge and experience. The jury’s judgment will be considered as final one.

Judgment in these criteria will be based on:

Industry type
Organization size
Factors driving organization’s information security spending
Evaluation of information security spending
Security measures deployed or to be deployed
Size and complexity of projects undertaken/delivered
Security assurance

Faq's

Q. Why ‘INFOSEC MAESTROS’ Awards?

The ‘INFOSEC MAESTROS’ Awards will felicitate organizations (and the people within them) that are using information security technology in innovative ways to secure their business and mission critical information in the most effective manner and deliver business value, by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving relationships with customers.

Information security is vital for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of computer systems, resources, and data; it is important for business continuity, for profits, for the economy and for national security. Yet, though every year we load accolades on business heads for their successes and other side, the country has stayed silent to the monumental contribution of the security professionals.

The ‘INFOSEC MAESTROS’ Awards is an attempt to recognize the contributions that these extremely talented executives make that has such a huge impact on our businesses. This is the most prolific information security honour that is being conceptualized, and organized by ‘INFOSECURITYLIVE.COM’

Q. What is the Impact of ‘INFOSEC MAESTROS’ Awards?

This award aims to bring to the centre stage the contribution security officers make in the shaping and securing the integrity of our businesses. We hope that this award will inspire the young talented information security professionals and researchers to come forward with path breaking technological innovations to keep organizations ahead and secure.

Q. What is the Judging Process?

The 150 INFOSEC MAESTROS will be chosen by the expert panel of 11 jury members and will be based on the information submitted by the nominees vide online form submission or through email. The panel of judges selected, each represent a different segments of industry and bring to the forum their extensive knowledge and experience. The jury’s judgment will be considered as final one. Entrants are encouraged to include any information about their projects or initiatives that they would like the judges to consider in their answers to the questions on the application. Please note that finalists of this award are not ranked. For more details, please refer Judging Process section.

Q. Tell us something about methodology used for selecting ‘INFOSEC MAESTROS’?

A brief on the methodology adopted for selection process (only to present a neutral picture of the initiative):

Step 1: Open nominations – publicize via personal contact, print ads, online ads, links on websites.

Step 2: Receive nomination entries from individuals and organisations. Parameters of selection include:

~ Industry type

~ Organisation size

~ Factors driving organization’s information security spending

~ Evaluation of information security spending

~ Security measures deployed or to be deployed

~ Size and complexity of projects undertaken/delivered

~ Security assurance

Step 3 : Nominations to be short listed based on predefined minimum criteria.

Step 4 : Jury panel consisting of pioneers and stalwarts of the security industry to qualify finalists.

Step 5 : INFOSEC MAESTROS selected. Special Achievement awards, if any to be decided by Jury panel of 11 judges.

Q. How will the information provided for nominations are used?

The information you provide in your nomination forms will be primarily used by ‘INFOSECURITY LIVE’ for judging the awards. Additionally, the information provided may be used by our editorial team for editorial purpose and/or in other publicity materials related to the ‘INFOSEC MAESTROS’ Awards. If there is any information that you do not want publicized, please mention the same in the form submitted with an “ * ” marked against it.

SPEAKERS

Best CISOs deserve the best of breed national and international speakers, experts, analysts from IT Security domain as well as thought leaders. Please visit this section later for update as we are working on shortlisting the most competitive set of speakers for you.

Akhil Verma

CISO, Airtel Payment Bank

Ambuj Bhalla

Director - IT Security, CISO, Interglobe Aviation Limited (IndiGo)

Amit Dhawan

CISO, Birlasoft

Amit Ghodekar

Senior Vice President - Information Security, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited

Ankur Patial

Sr. Consulting Engineer, CrowdStrike

Archie Jackson

Sr. Director, Head IT & IS, Incedo Inc.

Avadhut Parab

CIO, Wockhardt Limited

Bharat Panchal

Chief Risk Officer- India/MEA, FIS Global

Dhruv Khanna

Business Mentor - Cyber Security Product Co

Diwakar Dayal

Managing Director - India and SAARC, Tenable

Gautam Kapoor

Partner - Cyber Security / Risk Advisory, Deloitte LLP

Itzik Weinstein

CEO, Cyber Observer

Jaspreet Singh

Partner – Cyber Security, Ernst & Young LLP

Keyur Desai

CIO - Ports and Shipping & VP - IT, Essar Bulk Terminal Ltd

Mansi Thapar

Head Security - CISO, Jaquar Group

Meetali Sharma

Head - Risk, Compliance & Information Security, SDG Software India Pvt. Ltd

Prasanna Lohar

Head Technology - Innovation & Architecture, DCB Bank Ltd

Ravinder Arora

Head - IT Security, IRIS Software Inc

Satish Kumar Dwibhashi

Vice President & CISO, Wibmo

Srihari Kotni

CISO & Asst. Vice President, Reliance Payment Solutions Ltd (Jio Money)

Stephen DuBravac

Chief Marketing Officer & EVP, Security Weaver

Umesh Bhapkar

Director - IT, Synechron Technologies

V. Sendil Kumar

Vice President - IT, Shriram Value Services

Vijay Devnath

General Manager - I&S, MDMS & CISO, Center for Railway Information Systems (CRIS)

Yahya Khan

Pre Sales Head, Arcon Risk Control

AGENDA & SCHEDULE

Program Agenda of "INFOSEC MAESTROS Awards & Conference" event has been designed to offer a perfect blend of talent recognition, thought leadership, technology showcase, interactive sessions, peer-to-peer exchange, fun and entertainment activities -- makes it the most prolific IT Security event of India....

Note: Agenda & Schedule is subject to change without prior notice.

Day 01

November 22, 2019
Day 02

November 23, 2019

02:00 PM - 05:00 PM

Guest Arrivals / Check-Ins

05:00 PM - 05:45 PM

Delegates Registration

05:45 PM - 06:10 PM

Welcome Address and Opening Remarks

06:10 PM - 06:40 PM

Keynote :

Hunting Down the Hunters. The Art and Science of Hunting the Most Advanced & Persistent Threats

By: Jaspreet Singh, Partner – Cyber Security, Ernst & Young LLP

06:40 PM - 07:20 PM

CISO ThoughtExchange:

How to Transform Your SOC to Outsmart and Outpace the Advanced Attacks. Impact of ML, AI and other Data Science techniques

Moderator: * Satish Kumar Dwibhashi, Senior Vice President & CISO, Wibmo

Panelists:

Dr. Avadhut Parab, CIO, Wockhardt Limited
Stephen DuBravac, Chief Marketing Officer & EVP, Security Weaver
Ankur Patial, Sr. Consulting Engineer, CrowdStrike
Sudeep K Das, Tech Leader - IBM Security, India & South Asia

07:20 PM - 07:40 PM

The Fundamentals of Cyber Hygiene

By: Itzik Weinstein, CEO, Cyber Observer Ltd

07:40 PM - 08:00 PM

Is SIEM Still a Good Line of Defense?

By: Vaidyanathan Iyer, Security Software Leader, IBM India / South Asia

08:00 PM - 08:45 PM

CISO ThoughtExchange:

How Digital Identity and Trust Strategies to Protect and Master Your Digital Business Transformation

Moderator: * Archie Jackson, Sr. Director, Head IT & IS, Incedo Inc.

Panelists:

Keyur Desai, CIO-Essar Ports & Shipping, Head - Information Security – Essar
Anil Bhandari, Mentor & Thought Leader, ARCON
Satish Kumar Dwibhashi, Senior Vice President & CISO, Wibmo
Amit Dhawan, CISO, Birlasoft
Diwakar Dayal, Managing Director - India and SAARC, Tenable

08:45 PM - 09:00 PM

Distribution of InfoSec Maestros Awards 2019 -- Part 1

09:15 PM onwards

Networking Cocktails & Dinner

07:30 AM - 08:30 AM

Power Breakfast

08:30 AM - 09:00 AM

Delegate Registrations

09:00 AM - 09:10 AM

Welcome Address and Opening Remarks

09:10 AM - 09:40 AM

Keynote:

Ever Mounting Investment in Cyber Security, RoI Ever Gets Questioned? Demonstrating RoI is a Major Concern to Board.

By: Dhruv Khanna, Business Mentor - Cyber Security Product Co

09:40 AM - 10:20 AM

CISO ThoughtExchange:

Digital Security Reality in Banking and Financial Services: Are We Secure Enough to Prevent Data Breaches and Payments Frauds? How they are Responding to Relentless Cyber Threats?

Moderator: * Bharat Panchal, Chief Risk Officer- India/MEA, FIS Global

Panelists:

Akhil Verma, CISO, Airtel Payment Bank
Amit Ghodekar, Senior Vice President - Information Security, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Limited
Srihari Kotni, CISO & Asst. Vice President, Reliance Payment Solutions Ltd (Jio Money)
Ambuj Bhalla, Director - IT Security, CISO, Interglobe Aviation Limited (IndiGo)

10:20 AM - 11:00 AM

Cloud 2.0: The Holy Grail of IT?

By: Sudeep K Das, Tech Leader - IBM Security, India & South Asia

11:00 AM - 11:50 AM

Tea-Coffee Break / Technology Showcase / Check-outs

11:50 AM - 12:10 AM

Benchmark Like a Boss to Improve Your Security Program

By:Diwakar Dayal, Managing Director - India and SAARC, Tenable

11:50 AM - 12:10 PM

Benchmark Like a Boss to Improve Your Security Program

By: Diwakar Dayal, Managing Director - India and SAARC, Tenable

12:10 PM - 12:30 PM

Segregation of Duties. Is It Worth the Effort?

By: Stephen DuBravac, Chief Marketing Officer & EVP, Security Weaver

12:30 PM - 01:00 PM

Editorial TalkFest -- Digital Trust, Threat Management and Cloud Pak for Security

Host : Deepak Kumar, Chief Editor, BitStream Mediaworks Pvt Ltd
Guest : Vaidyanathan Iyer, Security Software Leader, IBM India / South Asia

01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

Networking Lunch / Technology Showcase

02:00 PM - 02:30 PM

Distribution of InfoSec Maestros Awards 2019 -- Part 2

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM

CISO ThoughtExchange:

How Companies Visualize the Impact and Get Prepared for a Security Breach Storm. Perspectives from the Boardroom and C-suite

Moderator: * Dr. Avadhut Parab, CIO, Wockhardt Limited

Panelists:

Vijay Devnath, General Manager - I&S, MDMS & CISO, Center for Railway Information Systems (CRIS)
Itzik Weinstein, CEO, Cyber Observer Ltd
V. Sendil Kumar, Vice President - IT, Shriram Value Services
Ravinder Arora, CISO, IRIS Software
Mansi Thapar, Head Security - CISO, Jaquar Group

03:00 PM - 03:20 PM