DiverSecCon

Speakers

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  13-11-2021 07:00PM IST Keynote Speaker - Day 1

  Dr.Reem Faraj AlShammari @Q8Thunders

  Reem is a Proud Mom and a Global: Thought Leader in Cyber Security & Technology at the Energy Sector, Harvard Business School Alumni, Board Member, Judge, Awards Winner, Keynote and TEDx Speaker, Founding Partner, Inclusion and Diversity Advocate, and an Unconditional Giver to the Community.

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  13-11-2021 07:55PM IST Empowering the Modern SOC

  Neha Dhyani @Neha_dhyani1

  Seasoned Cyber Security Professional having 15 Yrs of Rich Experience in Security Presales Management- Network & Information Security, Telecom Security, Solution Architect for DC, DR & SOC Design, Cloud Security Architect & Security Consultancy

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  13-11-2021 07:55PM IST Testing and Security for the Deeplearning folks

  Vishwas N @vishwasnarayan5

  Vishwas is a security enthusiast

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  13-11-2021 08:30PM IST The gap between theoretical education and real world jobs

  Victor Monga @victorvirtual

  Victor Monga is a Vice-Chair of the board at Virtually Testing Foundation (VTF), he specializes in network security, risk assessment, and threat modeling. Previously, Victor was a Network and Security Engineer for a major Healthcare Provider. He streamlined the transformation of the data center from a monolithic architecture to microservices for high availability and defense-in-depth security.His experience in Healthcare, Aerospace, Defense has given him an in-depth understanding of specific industry needs. His hybrid profile allows VT members to provide tailored Achievable Innovative Security Programs to clients in an evolving threat landscape. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Business Administration. He stays abreast of the latest Security Trends and holds numerous industry certifications.

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  13-11-2021 08:30PM IST Demystifying Diversity & Delivering Through Inclusion

  Ravi Kant Verma @Ravi_verm

  Currently leading a global support organisation for a prominent SAAS Vendor. I have partnered with engineering teams to drive efficiency and reduce overall incident ownership by enabling in-product support, case deflection, and improving product quality.

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  13-11-2021 09:00PM IST Emerging Social Engineering Attacks & Preventions

  Shifa Cyclewala @shifacyclewala

  She is a web and mobile application developer with a keen experience in security field. She has experience in software development and security training with special interest in Social Engineering and Web Security. She is a Director of Hacktify Cyber Security and a Non-profit organisation partnered with VT Foundation based in US. She actively promotes women in Cyber Security and started an initiative known as Hacktify for Women.

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  13-11-2021 09:00PM IST Powering Through Certifications

  Apurv Tiwari @AidenSenju

  Apurv is a security consultant with Optiv. He performs risk and cybersecurity assessments across different standards like PCI DSS, ISO 27001, CMMC and NIST CSF. He is passionate about threat intelligence and assists in OSINT investigations. When relaxing, he tends to watch anime, play Warframe and mentor folks transitioning into cybersecurity. Apurv has obtained Security+, CEH, CISSP(Associate) and ISO 27001 Lead Auditor certifications, in addition to a Master’s degree in Cybersecurity.

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  13-11-2021 09:30PM IST Leveraging cloud to scale security with shift left

  Avinash Jain @logicbomb_1

  I am an information security researcher working at Microsoft and earlier built complete end-to-end information security in a couple of startups. I love to break application logic and find vulnerabilities in them, which have been - acknowledged by various MNCs like Google, Yahoo, Vmware, MongoDB, and other top companies. I am also an active blogger where I write about interesting vulnerabilities, data privacy issues, and everything security. Some of my articles and interviews have been published in news media like Forbes, BBC, Techcrunch, Economic times, Huffingtonpost, Hindustan times, ZDNet, Hakin9, Hackerone, etc. I am also a cybersecurity speaker, love to share my views on various infosec threads.

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  13-11-2021 09:30PM IST The Great Resignation and the Greater Risks to the Business

  Reet Kaur @sekaurity

  Reet Kaur is a Strategic Executive with 20+ years of Security and IT experience in multi-technology disciplines, multi-verticals and multi-national Fortune 100-500 companies. She is a technical leader who has delivered operationally effective and resilient programs focussed on information protection, awareness, governance, compliance and business continuity through risk-based approach to business enablement and cost optimization for operational efficiency and effectiveness.She is currently the CISO of Portland Community College which is the largest higher-ed institutes in Oregon state.

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  13-11-2021 10:30PM IST Pentesting AWS 101

  Sanjeev Jaiswal @jassics

  12+ years of experience in Programming, Appsec and Cloud Security

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  13-11-2021 10:30PM IST Diversity is a Result of Inclusive Cultures

  Deidre Diamond, Jessica Gottsleben @DeidreDiamond, @JGottsleben

  Talent and technology veteran, Deidre Diamond, Founder, and CEO of CyberSN and Secure Diversity, has created the largest cybersecurity talent acquisition service and technology firm in the U.S while focusing on the cybersecurity talent shortage, specifically the shortage of women. Deidre's mission is to remove the pain from job searching and matching for everyone. Deidre cares tremendously about people loving where they work and has been working to create cultures that have high EQ (emotional intelligence) skills. These skills focus on words and behaviors. Deidre is known in the D/I community as someone who works hard at making sure words and behaviors are inclusive for all so that inclusive environments can also be diverse environments. Jessica Gottsleben is a globally recognized DEI leader in cyber, executive policy advisor and consultant, and expert in safety and security for human beings. Jessica recognizes the lack of equity in cybersecurity and security spaces as a national and global security crisis, and she works to close the gaps for historically excluded communities to solve our most pressing challenges. She also audits and trains professionals to communicate effectively and cultivate emotionally intelligent, safe, accountable, authentic, and secure organizations and communities around the world. She provides strategic foresight, ethics, and resiliency for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Digital Age, and Public Diplomacy 2.0, while building efficacy and optimizing the conditions for human thriving.

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  13-11-2021 11:15PM IST Burnout: The Security Risk

  Chloé Messdaghi @ChloeMessdaghi

  Chloé Messdaghi is an award-winning changemaker who is innovating tech and information security sectors to meet today and future demands by providing solutions that empower organizations and people to stand out from the crowd. She is an international keynote speaker at major information security and tech conferences and events, and serves as a trusted source to reporters and editors, such as Forbes and Business Insider. Additionally, she is one of the Business Insider’s 50 Power Players. Outside of her work, she is the co-founder of Hacking is NOT a Crime and We Open Tech.

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  13-11-2021 11:30PM IST Data is the new oil- Data centric strategy

  Malini Rao @MaliniRaoCyber1

  Malini Rao is a well known Cybersecurity leader with over 2 decades of experience in information security, cybersecurity, cloud security, Governance, Risk & Compliance . Malini is a National & International speaker on various cybersecurity topics, Published various articles, whitepapers, Point of View on cybersecurity topics, Recognized as one of the Top 10 Women cybersecurity leaders globally by SC Media . Malini is CISSP, CISM, CCSK, ISO 27001 certified.She is voracious reader, writer, learner, love travelling, active blogger and mentoring aspiring cybersecurity beginners & mentees.

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  14-11-2021 12:00AM IST Secrets of Bug Hunting

  Bala Likhith Kanigolla @BKanigolla

  Likhith Kanigolla is the OWASP LPU community's chapter leader and the Chief Technology Officer of the student organization Gravity. He had given several sessions on ethical hacking and web development. He delivered the keynote address at the Gravithon 2021 Global Conference. He has worked in a global team before and has excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills. He is working on several artificial intelligence and machine learning projects. He is also an A/B Member of Developer Student Clubs By Google in the cyber and web team. At present he is also Community Member at Student partners of Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Techincal Community.

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  14-11-2021 12:15 AM IST Security by Design

  Sukanya Sukhavasi

  Sukanya Sukhavasi is a Senior Product Security Engineer at ServiceNow. In her current role, she performs Secure Design Reviews where she is part of design & development activities and contributes to internal org training. She has over six years of experience in Application Security Engineering. She worked in Red Team before her current role and holds a Masters degree in Computer and Information Science from Purdue University. When she is not wearing her security hat, she enjoys interior designing, outdoor yoga and spending time with her family.

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  14-11-2021 01:00AM IST Keynote Speaker - Day 1

  Lidia Giuliano @pink_tangent

  Lidia has been in the Information Security field for over 15+ years. Her current role sees her in the position of a Security Advisor / Architect at a major financial institution. Having experience in many sectors (telecommunication, retail and financial), she is passionate and enjoys working on front-line business initiatives, finding new or repeatable ways solving complex problems and being a business security enabler. She has an interest in Cloud Security, Security Design, Defensive Security, Vulnerability Management and Malware Defense. She is a vulnerary member of Black Hat Asia RB, DevSecCon RB, TDI RB, an organiser of BSides Melbourne, volunteer mentor for AWSN, speaker coach/mentor for many conferences globally and very actively involved in the information security community.

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  14-11-2021 07:00PM IST Keynote Speaker - Day 2

  Anant Shrivastava @anantshri

  Anant Shrivastava is an information security professional with ~14yrs of corporate experience with expertise in Network, Mobile, Application and Linux Security. During his career has been a speaker and a trainer at various international conferences (Black Hat -USA, ASIA, EU, Nullcon, c0c0n and many more). Anant also leads Open Source projects Android Tamer (www.androidtamer.com) and CodeVigilant (www.codevigilant.com). He also maintains the archive portal : hackingarchivesofindia.com. In his free time he likes to participate in open communities targeted towards spreading information security knowledge such as null (null.community). His work can be found at anantshri.info

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  14-11-2021 07:45PM IST You can’t defend what you can’t see

  Lekshmi Nair @leksmnair

  Lekshmi is a seasoned Cyber Security professional with over 19 years of experience in the field of Security, Risk and Compliance, Privacy, Data Security and Application Security. Lekshmi has avid consulting experience with global and domestic customers in Energy, Banking and Chemical and Petroleum segments. She is a known for her innovative problem solving, result oriented approach and fearless leadership style. She led large security transformations involving complex security requirements in her delivery role and lead teams too 100% growth in less than one year as a delivery leader. She also played key roles in the business growth to double the revenue figures for security business.Lekshmi stands out as a leader with uniqueness is because of her commitment to enable the next generation cybersecurity workforce. A passionate leader and a Cyber security evangelist, Lekshmi was the Chair of the Women in Security Excelling- India Chapter in IBM consisting of 600+ members. This forum aims towards bridging the gender gap in Cyber Security space. She was the Leader of University Relationship- Security across India and is the member in the Board of studies of some of premium engineering colleges. She is one of the founding member and General Secretary of Women in Cyber Security (WiCys) India chapter. She is a regular speaker in renowned universities, active mentor in her current organizations and external forums and also spoken in conferences like DSCI Annual Information security Conference, Executive Women’s Forum and many more

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  14-11-2021 07:45PM IST Decoding secure code review-A human approach

  Gopal Gupta

  A Security Engineer with industry experience in areas like Application Security, Security Architecture, Secure Design and Network Security.

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  14-11-2021 08:15PM IST Real world experience on Preparation of a Penetration Testing

  Soenil Soebedar @soebit

  Soenil Soebedar is a solution-oriented IT cyber security professional who spent more than 28 years in the IT sector

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  14-11-2021 8:15 PM IST Root Cause Analysis

  Anshika Verma @Anshika21236830

  Pre-final year student at VIT Bhopal University Lucknow Chapter lead at InfosecGirls

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  14-11-2021 8:30 PM IST Breaking Into CyberSecurity

  Sachin Verma @vermasachin898

  Sachin is working as a Security analyst with esec forte and OWASP Project leader

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  14-11-2021 9:00 PM IST Pentest IoT Devices - Right Approach

  Vismit Rakhecha @th3_druk

  Vismit has been in the security field from the last 7+ years and currently working as Sr. Security Analyst for Evolent Health International. Vismit has published white papers on wildlife trade over the internet and Digital Mafia~ Decrypted and presented the research papers in Hakon, CSA, OWASP, HackTech, etc. In his free time, he does bug bounty hunting, Avira, Sony, Nokia, HackerEarth, AT&T are the few famous names who rewarded Vismit for finding the bugs in their product. Vismit has delivered 100+ sessions in on security in colleges and government sectors. He is OWASP Ahmedabad(India) chapter lead.

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  14-11-2021 09:00PM IST Environmental Awareness to Scale in Career

  Shivani Sharma @shivanirsharma

  Shivani Sharma, The Founder & Director at KLEAP Technologies Pvt Ltd, a cybersecurity startup, is an ISO 27001 Lead auditor having in-depth knowledge of IT regulatory compliance. She won the Indian Achievers’ Award for ‘The Most Promising Start-up.She is accomplished in developing, implementing, and managing privacy and data protection security projects. She provides expertise around IT Consulting, ISO Audit, Risk Management and security services.

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  14-11-2021 9:30 PM IST The What, Why and How of implementing a Zero Trust security Model

  Sophia Priyadarshini

  Over 15 years of cybersecurity experience focussed primarily on compliance, risk management,Cybersecurity. Chief community builder of Women in Cyber community, a community which fosters awareness starting from Teenagers to CxO’s and working towards building gender equality in the world of cybersecurity. ● Involved in Diversity initiatives ● winCYBER ● InfosecGirls ● Women in Cybersecurity (WiCys) ● WomeninCloud Network ● LeaninWiti ● Currently working as Zero Trust Evangelist with InstaSafe

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  14-11-2021 9:30 PM IST Decoding the cyber criminal and normal human mindset game puzzle

  Kavisha sheth @sheth_kavisha

  Kavisha is a Security Analyst by profession. She is a cloud security and machine learning enthusiast who dabbles in application and API security She spends time findings vulnerabilities and doing research for the same. She has been recognized by the Government of India for helping them in securing their websites. She has also been listed in the list of top security researchers of the nation, in a recent newsletter of NCIIPC RVDP.

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  14-11-2021 10:00 PM IST How to start with cybersecurity

  Vaibhav Mishra @i_m_WhiteDevil

  Hey I'm Vaibhav Mishra.I love connecting with like-minded people who share my interests in cybersecurity, public speaking, Digital Forensics. I am pursuing a Bachelor's In Computer Science & Engineering Specialization In Cyber Security and Digital Forensics at Vellore Institute of Technology, Bhopal.

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  14-11-2021 10:30 PM IST Modern Identify Access Management

  Dr. Abhilasha Vyas

  Vertical Head, Cloud Security| MCT | Corp Trainer | Speaker| Core Team Member @ startuplearn.org | Executive Council Member, WiBD India | Core Team member WiT India | Gujrat Chapter Lead, Infosecgirls

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  14-11-2021 10:30 PM IST We rise by lifting others

  Gayatri Nayak

  Gayatri Nayak is a Cyber Security enthusiast currently working as an Associate Consultant at Synopsys. She holds MSc. degree in Information Technology and is a member of the Event management team of the null community. She is an avid reader, researcher, and speaker at Infosec Girls and c0c0n conference.

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  14-11-2021 10:45 PM IST Security Collaboration,Nurturing right Partnerships

  Viraj Gandhi

  Viraj Gandhi,Staff Product Security Engineer at Servicenow Inc, holding Masters and Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Spent a decade in Agile/Scrum software development before plunging into cybersecurity space. In-depth knowledge of common web application vulnerabilities (OWASP Top Ten).Designing processes for security reviews, threat modeling, and partnering with product engineering teams. Experience working across teams to help drive security improvements across the enterprise by providing security advise and risk assessment. Strong advocate for equity at Workplace and currently volunteering with WiCyS, a community promoting advancement of women in the cybersecurity workforce.

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  14-11-2021 11:00 PM IST OWASP Top 10 API Security

  Yuvank Soni @yuvanksoni

  Information Security Consultant at KLEAP Technologies, Masters student at SRM University, Full time passionate learner when it comes to security.

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  14-11-2021 11:00 PM IST Advance Digital Footprint Enumeration

  Nivya Ravi @ChezNivya

  Cyber Security Professional having 3+ years of experience in Security Consulting and Pre-sales Management

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  14-11-2021 11:30 PM IST From Appsec to Car Hacking

  Jay Turla @shipcod3

  Jay Turla is Principal Security Consultant at VikingCloud, and one of the goons of ROOTCON. He has presented at international conferences like ROOTCON, HITCON, Nullcon, DEFCON, etc. He used to work for HP Fortify and Bugcrowd in the areas of appsec. His main interest or research right now is about car hacking and is currently one of the main organizers of the Car Hacking Village of ROOTCON / Philippines which is recognized and supported by the Car Hacking Village community.

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  14-11-2021 11:30 PM IST ICS Threat Hunting using MITRE ATT&CK and Elastic Security

  Yashraj Kalpesh Solanki

  Yashraj is a cyber security graduate with a Bachelors in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, and hands on experience with SCADA and iRTUs. His expertise lies in leveraging MITRE ATT&CK to complement CTI, SOC assessments and threat emulation. He is interested in bridging the gap between IT and OT cyber security concepts, with an emphasis on threat hunting, risk assessment using threat intelligence and vulnerability management. He has published two international research papers in IEEE and IJECE titled ''Augmentation of a SCADA based firewall against foreign hacking devices and Real time weather surveillance via lab view interfaced Arduino

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  15-11-2021 12:00 AM IST Portal to the Upside Down: Cyber Criminals at Play

  Keenan Skelly @KeenanSkelly

  CEO – ShadowByte, President and CEO - Spark Security Solutions, Inc and many more

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  15-11-2021 01:00AM IST Keynote Speaker - Day 2

  Bryson Bort @brysonbort

  Bryson is the Founder of SCYTHE, a start-up building a next generation attack emulation platform, and GRIMM, a cybersecurity consultancy, and Co-Founder of the ICS Village, a non-profit advancing awareness of industrial control system security. He is a Senior Fellow for Cybersecurity and National Security at R Street and the National Security Institute and an Advisor to the Army Cyber Institute. As a U.S. Army Officer, he served as a Battle Captain and Brigade Engineering Officer in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom before leaving the Army as a Captain. He was recognized as one of the Top 50 in Cyber in 2020 by Business Insider.