Virtual Cybersecurity Summit: India & SAARC 2021

Ts. Saiful Bakhtiar Osman

Head-IT, APAC, ASCENT Fund Services, Malaysia

Osman currently serves as the head of IT – APAC, for ASCENT Fund Services, a Singapore-based global independent fund administrator company. He is responsible for providing the technology, solutions, security, and support for all ASCENT Fund Services offices in Asia Pacific.

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Mark Frogoso

CISO, GCash

Frogoso is the CISO of Mynt (Globe Fintech Innovations, Inc.), the holding company of the largest and top e-wallet in the Philippines, GCash. He is responsible for establishing and maintaining the information security vision, strategy, and programs to ensure the organization's assets and data are adequately protected and enable the organization to achieve its business objectives.

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Varun Kakkar

Group Head of Cyber Security, Tricor Group

Kakkar is group head of cybersecurity at Tricor Group. He has more than 13 years of experience in IT and security world. His specialities include local and international regulations and compliance.

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Aaron Bugal

Global Solutions Engineer, APJ, Sophos

Bugal is Global Solutions Engineer, APJ at Sophos. He has been with Sophos for more than 12 years. Based in Melbourne, the majority of his time is spent helping organizations throughout Asia Pacific and Japan effectively deploy and use Sophos’ gateway, endpoint, network and encryption systems. Bugal’s expertise enables him to flawlessly articulate to customers and partners the threats in today’s cybersecurity landscape, and how best to defend against them.

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Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Rajesh Pant

National Cybersecurity Coordinator-PMO, Govt. of India

Pant is national cybersecurity coordinator in the national security council of India at the prime minister's office. He is responsible for coordinating all cybersecurity activities across multiple sectors. He holds a Ph.D. in information security metrics. Previously, he was the head of the Army's cyber training establishment for three years. He served in the Army Signals Corps for 41 years and was honored three times by the president of India for distinguished service of the highest order.

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Prof. D Janakiram

Director, Institute for Development & Research in Banking Technology

Prof. D. Janakiram is presently the Director of Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), an Institute established by the Reserve Bank of India.

He is a Board Member of IIIT Kurnool and Senate Member of IIIT Trichy. He has served as Board of Studies member in several Universities including VIT University, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Anna University, Gujarat Technical University, Andhra University, SV University, JNTU, Hyderabad, JNTU, Kakinada and Academic Council member of Hindustan University.

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Lee Dolsen

Chief Architect, Asia Pacific & Japan, Zscaler

Dolsen is the chief architect for Zscaler’s Asia Pacific business based out of Singapore. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry focusing on various aspects of internet security and content delivery. Dolsen has been living and working in Asia for the past 14 years.

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Ashwath Reddy

Principal Consultant, Software Integrity Group, Synopsys

Reddy currently works as a principal consultant at Synopsys. He has previously worked as a security engineer at Microsoft Corp. His interests are in cloud security, red teaming, application security (web applications) and threat modelling. He has released plugins for Burp to handle complex authentication mechanisms .

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Neil Campbell

Vice President, APJ, Rapid 7

Campbell has spent more than 25 years specializing in cyber security, in global, regional and local roles, across law enforcement, consulting, systems integration, telecommunications and managed security services organisations. Now leading Rapid7’s sales team in Asia Pacific and Japan, he is focused on making a positive impact on cyber security outcomes at scale, as it is a problem that has to be addressed broadly in order to create sustainable change.

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Vernon Co

SE Manager APAC, EfficientIP

Vernon has nearly 10 years experience with focused experience on network management and security.He was previously with Exclusive Networks building his current expertise in DNS security vulnerability, hacking and mitigation.

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Mathan Babu Kasilingam

CISO, Vodafone Idea

Mathan is the Chief Information Security Officer of Vodafone Idea Limited who has over20 years of experience in the field of Information and Cyber Security

Mathan was with NPCI as CISO & HDFC Bank as the Head of Cyber Security Solutions and Operations prior to joining Vi. He was instrumental in building a robust Cyber Security defense and response mechanism for these organisations. Mathan has held various positions in the field of Information and Cyber Security across multiple leading Cyber Security firms till 2014. Mathan achieved his CISSP in the year 2006.

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Sanjay Tiwari

CISO, India Infoline Group

Tiwari is VP technology and CISO for IIFL group. He comes with 17 years of experience in information security, cyber security and technology risk management. He has worked with organizations like Wipro Technologies, NSDL e-Governance, Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance, where he has successfully built, developed, managed and maintained their technology Infra, Information Security and Cyber security.

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Bithal Bhardwaj

Group CISO, GMR Group

Bhardwaj is the group CISO for GMR Group where he is responsible for cyber security vision, strategy and program across the group companies. Prior to joining GMR, he served as the CISO for GE Global regions, driving regional cyber security strategy across 100+ countries.

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Rajashekar P

Director, ISAC

Rajshekhar is a social entrepreneur and an ardent cyber security proponent with more than 18 years of professional IT experience. He is a CISSP and has formerly worked with Microsoft Corporation, GTL Limited and Etisalat Telecom. Rajshekhar is a full-time director at Information Sharing and Analysis Center, India's leading cybersecurity non-profit foundation, where he is responsible for managing the National Security Database program.

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Jitson Ong

Solution Architect, APJ, CyberArk

Ong has more than 10 years of experience in the IT Industry, specialising in the security domains. Currently, he is serving as a solution architect in CyberArk assisting organizations in the battle against privileged identities vulnerabilities. He believes “Identity is the new perimeter” and all identities can be privileged under certain conditions.

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Sameer Raje

General Manager & Head of India, Zoom Video Communications

Raje is general manager and head Of India -responsible for leading strategic initiatives, GTM, operations, sales, implementation, support and general management functions for Zoom in country. Raje has been associated with companies like Cisco Webex, IBM and Microsoft during his career where he built and lead high profile teams specializing in winning large complex transactions.

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Swati Sharma (Swati Anuj Arya)

FSI Compliance Specialist

Sharma has more than 12 years of experience in cloud security, financial & regulatory compliance, IT audit, payment security, HIPAA, information security, PCI DSS, data protection, privacy and risk management. She has handled many PCI and RBI Information system audits. She has lead Compliance Program at leading payment gateways, Banks, Third Party Processors, IT companies, and BPOs in different geographical locations including India, US, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Morocco, Singapore, Philippines and UK.

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Anshu Sharma

Vice President (Cyber Operations, Management and Response), Wells Fargo

Sharma is vice president and head of cyber operations monitoring and response at Wells Fargo India. Prior to Wells Fargo, she held various information security positions across technology organizations and grew in to a leader. Sharma is a seasoned security professional who works towards building a culture of mentorship. She has participated in various external/virtual events to raise cyber awareness for young girls in schools, to educate them in pursuing career opportunities in cybersecurity.

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Mansi Thapar

CISO, Jaquar Group

Thapar is a strategic planner and thinker with 20 years’ experience in all verticals of IT, be it SDLC, information security, programme management, operations, business processes, business excellence, or analytics. The above combination provides her an edge to better understand business processes, people, and technology, allowing her to plan, monitor, and implement information programs across the organization.

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Jeewapadma Sandagomi

Senior General Manager-Enterprise Risk Management, Mobitel (Sri Lanka)

Sandagomi is an IT and risk management professional with more than 20 year experience in the ICT industry. Sandagomi is currently working at Sri Lanka Telecom Mobitel, as a senior general manager heading the enterprise risk & information security division. During his tenure at Mobitel, he has been leading different roles and responsibilities at Mobitel, including IT strategy, information security, project management, revenue assurance and enterprise risk management.

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