
Virtual Cybersecurity Summit: India & SAARC Zero Trust 2021
Sri Lanka, like other global nations, is getting targeted by adversaries. TG J Amarasena of CERT Sri Lanka talks about the soon-to be-launched cybersecurity bill and the cyber roadmap for 2022. He also talks about the various challenges enterprises face and shares case studies on how basic cybersecurity overlook can cause a big harm.

Sudip Banerjee
Senior Director, Transformation Strategy, Zscaler
Banerjee is director transformation strategy for APJ at Zscaler. He has expertise in the banking and finance industry, with experience in driving digital transformation programs, public cloud SaaS adoption and re-architecting network infrastructure for enhanced user productivity with an improved security posture. He has worked in consulting with PwC and ran a CRM automation program across GE Consumer Finance. He also served as the group CTO for a diversified group of businesses.

Krishna Mohan Kasi
Vice President-Business & IT Audit, BNP Paribas
Kasi is vice president, business and IT audit with BNP Paribas. He has 20 years of experience driving various initiatives across multiple cybersecurity domains. He effectively brings together strategic business goals, security frameworks, tools, technology, and teams with special focus on cyber risk management.

Mark Johnston
APAC Head of Security, Customer Engineering Google Cloud
Mark is a passionate security advocate who leads Google Cloud’s team of Security and Networking specialists in Asia Pacific. With over 20 years of security domain expertise across the financial, government, telecommunications and education industries, he helps organizations adopt cloud computing using the shared responsibility model.
Prior to joining Google Cloud, he spent eight years at IBM where he led the APAC Security Tiger Team, and developed the IBM Enterprise Security Maturity Workshop executed at over 150 client sites worldwide.

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.

TG J Amarasena
CEO, CERT Sri Lanka
Amarasena is CEO of Sri Lanka CERT. He joined Sri Lanka Air Force in March 1987 after graduating from University of Colombo. He served the Air Force for 28 years in the branch of Electronic Engineering until his retirement in August 2015. After his retirement, from 2016 to 2017 he was with Lanka Logistics & Technologies Ltd, a company established under Ministry of Defence as its Head of Projects.

Mubashir Afzal Mir
Technical Solutions Architect, APJC, Duo Security, Cisco
Mir is Duo Technical Solutions Architect, APJC at Duo Security, Cisco. Prior to joining Cisco, he was the senior principal engineer at Dell Technology. He was also the global technical architect for modern workspace at Unisys.

Tony Jarvis
Director of Enterprise Security (APJ), Darktrace
Jarvis is the director of enterprise security, Asia Pacific and Japan, at Darktrace. He is a seasoned cyber security strategist who has advised Fortune 500 companies around the world on best practice for managing cyber risk. He has counselled governments, major banks and multinational companies, and his comments on cyber security and the rising threat to critical national infrastructure.

Vishal Salvi
CISO and Head-Cybersecurity Practice, Infosys
Salvi is CISO and head of cybersecurity practice at Infosys. Prior to joining Infosys, Salvi was a partner for cybersecurity at PwC. He has 21 years of industry experience in IT service delivery and cybersecurity, having served in roles at Crompton Greaves, Development Credit Bank, Global Trust Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and HDFC Bank. He has extensive management and domain experience in driving information security programs.

Vikas Malhotra
Head – Enterprise Business, LogMeIn
Malhotra is head, enterprise business at LogMeIn. He has more than two decades of experience in helping organizations achieve substantial business outcomes by providing niche technology solutions. As an experienced professional in the information and communication technology industry, he has managed and led partnership with customers across different verticals and diverse businesses.

Diwakar Dayal
Regional Director, SAARC, SentinelOne
Dayal is regional director and country manager for SentinelOne’s business across India & SAARC, responsible for developing and executing EDR leader’s growth strategy for the region. He is a cyber security industry veteran with more than 23 years of experience in India & Asia Pacific region.

Yashaswi Mudumbai
Technical Director-SAARC region, SentinelOne
Mudumbai is the technical director for the SAARC region at SentinelOne. He is a cybersecurity enthusiast and a security practitioner with more than 17yrs of experience. He has worked on high growth security products & platforms, with global companies like Sonicwall, Skybox Security & Tenable.

Sony K Philip
Cybersecurity Practitioner
Philip has been in the IT services space since the late 1990s. Over the course of his career, he managed IT and DevOps teams during his stints at companies like HCL Technologies Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and MiQ Digital Ltd. where he was the global head of infrastructure and cybersecurity.

Chongming Kong
Head of Systems Engineering, Asia Pacific and Japan for NetWitness, RSA
Kong is head of systems engineering, Asia Pacific and Japan for NetWitness. Kong started his career building and operating Security Operations Center with the Singapore Government in which he builds expertise in different cybersecurity technologies and processes/workflows. In his most recent roles, Kong has been consulting key customers across APJ in successfully building their SOC operations.
Prof.Triveni Singh
SP, Cyber Crime, Uttar Pradesh Police
Singh is currently posted as additional superintendent, special task force, UP Police, and is in charge of investigating cybercrimes in the state of Uttar Pradesh. His special areas of expertise are cybercrime and financial fraud. He has had wide exposure in dealing with cases related to anti-corruption, vigilance, economic offences, money laundering and cybercrimes.

Dr. Yask
CISO, Indian Oil Corporation
As CISO, Sharma is responsible for the maintenance of cybersecurity operations, infrastructure, and governance at a national critical infrastructure organization. He has more than two decades of experience and holds a master's degree in cyber law and cybersecurity from NLU, Jodhpur.

Leonard Ong
Senior Director, Regional Information Security Officer, APAC, GE Healthcare
Ong is senior director, regional security officer, APAC at GE Healthcare. He has more than 20 years of experience in Information, Cyber and Corporate Security gained in telecommunication, enterprise, banking, pharmaceutical and healthcare industries.

Squadron Leader Arun Kumar
Head, Managed Security Services, Tata Advanced Systems
Squadron leader Kumar (retd) serves as head, managed security services for TATA Advanced Systems where he manages security operations for custmers and helps them in their information security program.
Session Contributors
Vice President-Zero Trust, Crowdstrike
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Read BioHead of Systems Engineering, Asia Pacific and Japan for NetWitness, RSA
Read BioChief Information Security Officer, Minda Corporation
Read BioManaging Director and Country Manager, Tenable India
Read BioCIO-Essar Ports & Shipping, Head InfoSec - Essar
Read BioVice President-Business & IT Audit, BNP Paribas
Read BioSenior Director, Regional Information Security Officer, APAC, GE Healthcare
Read BioNational Cybersecurity Coordinator-PMO, Govt. of India
Read BioAPAC Head of Security, Customer Engineering Google Cloud
Read BioTechnical Solutions Architect, APJC, Duo Security, Cisco
Read BioHead of Information Security, Community Bank Bangladesh
Read BioSP, Cyber Crime, Uttar Pradesh Police
Read BioDirector - Sales Engineering (India & SAARC), Sophos
Read BioHead - Information Technology, SBI Mutual Fund
Read BioHead, Managed Security Services, Tata Advanced Systems
Read BioSVP and Head of InfoSec Services Group, Wells Fargo
Read BioSecurity Engineering Manager, Tenable India
Read BioSenior Director, Transformation Strategy, Zscaler
Read BioDirector of Enterprise Security (APJ), Darktrace
Read BioDirector-Cybersecurity South Asia, Mastercard
Read BioCISO and Head-Cybersecurity Practice, Infosys
Read BioSenior Technical Evangelist, ManageEngine - a division of Zoho Corp
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