Events

'Stronger Together' - Preview of RSA Conference 2023

Tom Field  •  March 28, 2023

"Stronger Together" is the theme of RSA Conference 2023. In an exclusive preview of the event, Linda Gray Martin and Britta Glade explain why that theme was selected - and what attendees can expect to see from sessions, speakers and sponsors when they attend the annual gathering in San Francisco.

Cyber Insurance: Is It the Best Defense Against Paying Cyber Attacks?

Deepika Mathur, CEO, Markel India  •  March 14, 2023

The cyber insurance industry has been concerned with the rising costs of cybercrime. The element of the unpredictability of the cybercrime world does not work well for the industry. New coverage and rising renewal rates are significant concerns. Premiums are rising by 10- to 20-fold. Recent research reports show that...

(Plenary) How to Win Cyberwars With Military Strategies and Techniques

Lt. Gen. Deependra Singh Hooda, Former General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Indian army's Northern Command  •  March 14, 2023

Strengthening individual resilience. Interplay of individual and the organization. The value of a strong organizational culture. Don’t fight the last war. Anticipate and prepare. Know the enemy. Leadership in a crisis. The dilemma of involvement vs detachment. Taking hard decisions. Empathy and...

Next-Gen CISO: The Custodian of Digital Trust

Debashish Jyotiprakash, Vice President Asia, Qualys  •  March 14, 2023

The digital transformation journey has changed the DNA of most organizations, more so the role of CISOs, who now wear multiple hats of a business leader, a CFO, an innovator and the custodian of digital trust, to establish a resilient cyber enterprise. In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of the CISO...

Is Your Identity Management Comprehensive Enough? Are You Just Tipping Your Toes?

Ambarish Kumar Singh, CISO, Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. , Milind Mungale, Managing Director and CEO, Protean InfoSec Services Ltd. , M Sampath, SVP and Head - IT Infrastructure, National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE) , Sridhar Sidhu, Senior Vice President and Head of Information Security Services Group, Wells Fargo  •  March 14, 2023

The critical components of an identity strategy, experts say, are to capture the data domains, engage using MFA, manage by providing user attributions, and administer managing identities from unauthorized sources. But are they adequate? Are you taking a piecemeal approach that does not help in compliance? Any written...

Secure Banking in 2023: The Next Big Innovation

Agnelo D'Souza , Pradeep Kumar Rangi, Chief Risk Officer, Airtel Payments Bank , Anagha Mujumdar, Head - BFSI (India & SAARC), Trend Micro , K M Reddy, Chief Information Security Officer, Union Bank of India  •  March 14, 2023

The demand for innovative financial services has never been stronger, with consumers testing new solutions from traditional banks, fintech firms, technology companies and other non-traditional players. Contactless, bots, blockchain, biometrics, AI and cloud are some of the digital innovations in the financial services...

(Debate) ChatGPT: Going Beyond AI for Threat Detection

Rajeev Batra, CIO, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. (Times Group) , Sumit Gupta, Chief Risk Officer, Yes Bank  •  March 14, 2023

ChatGPT and other transformative and generative models have shaken up the business world to the realities of intelligent machine-human interfaces. Advances in natural language processing will help machines understand human intent, thus providing for better customer insights and experiences. These models will become...

CBDC - New Kid on the Block: Security Risks and Response

Siba Narayan Panda, Cybersecurity Researcher and former Chief General Manager, Ex-Reserve Bank of India , Dr. N. Rajendran, Chief Digital Officer, Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd.  •  March 14, 2023

With the RBI announcing its central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot project, steps need to be taken not only to scale the infrastructure but also to secure it. However, there still are many unanswered questions. Do we have to build everything from the scratch or can existing security infrastructure be leveraged?...

Updating Your Cybersecurity Strategy in the New World

Sumnesh Joshi, Deputy Director General, Unique Identification Authority of India  •  March 14, 2023

The surge in cyberattacks against critical infrastructure is no longer conceptual. SolarWinds, Colonial Pipeline, Log4j, the Russia-Ukraine war and AIIMS attack demonstrate the severity of the present threat landscape. Hence, a robust cybersecurity strategy is needed to fight today’s hybrid warfare. What needs to...

Exposure Management for Modern Attack Surface

Kartik Shahani, Managing Director, India and SAARC, Tenable  •  March 14, 2023

Most organizations have been grappling with the challenge of being reactive to incidents, owing to the siloed security programs and the vendor sprawl of tools and technologies that generate unsurmountable data. This, in turn, is exposed to vulnerabilities drawing external threats. The new trends, including cloud,...

CERT-In Directives – The Status Check

Vijayakumar Chandrasekaran, Head of ICS-India, Standard Chartered Bank , Ashutosh Jain , Dr. Deepak Kalambkar, VP Infosec and Infrastructure, Safexpay , Dr. Ramesh Shanmuganathan, Executive Vice President & Group CIO, John Keels Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka , Brijesh Singh, Additional Director General of Police, Govt. Of Maharashtra  •  March 14, 2023

The CERT-In directives’ time frames and ambiguities have concerned CISOs, as poor implementation of the directives could divert resources and attention. While the new directives aim to address gaps and loopholes in the country's cybersecurity regulations, CISOs will have to ramp up staffing, tools and reporting to...

(Panel) Skill Gap in Cybersecurity: Innovative Methods CISOs Are Deploying

Urvish Acharya, Head - IT Governance and Risk, Birla Carbon , Pradipta Patro, Head IT and Cyber Security (CISO), RPG Group (KEC International Ltd.) , Rohit Rane, CISO, HDFC Pension  •  March 14, 2023

As the threat landscape continues to deteriorate, criminals learn and use new techniques, and devastating attacks such as ransomware surge, security leaders struggle to fill a critical shortage of skilled talent. With the lack of sufficiently skilled security professionals to meet the needs to protect organizations,...

(Panel) Third-Party Risk Management: How to Evolve a Program

Mathan Babu Kasilingam, CISO and DPO, Vodafone Idea Ltd , Anbu David, Vice President & Head of ITSM, Information & Cyber Security and Regional CISO for APAC, Holcim , Deval Mazmudar, Consultant, Cybersecurity, TJSB Bank  •  March 14, 2023

With third-party-sourced breaches regularly making the headlines, most companies have become aware of the risks created by this extended attack surface - often because they have been victims themselves. By following the right path, security and risk leaders can feel confident in their approach to managing the cyber...

Empowering a Cyber Resilient Enterprise

Navin Mehra, Regional Leader – Cyber Security, Cisco India  •  March 14, 2023

Impact of Technology Deployments on Privacy: Striking the Right Balance

Shruti Dvidedi Sodhi, Partner, Khaitan Legal Associates , Khushbu Jain, Advocate, Supreme Court of India , Shivangi Nadkarni , Gururaj Rao, Executive Vice President, Aditya Birla Capital Ltd.  •  March 14, 2023

Experts say technology can promote accountability as well as anonymity. The computer systems and applications require proof of identity of the user before allowing them access to every function in an organization. Detection technologies, including XDR, could pose a challenge to privacy and security. Enterprises, thus,...