Stories of Infosec Journeys - Indian Edition

Speaker Intro

Rohit Srivastwa is founder of BharatVerse, a Metaverse being developed specifically for Bharat. With 20 years of experience and successful exits, he has been focusing on the domain of information security and now pivoted into web3. Now he is a “Certified Metaverse Expert” and also provides training as well as coaching to students as well as corporates in this domain.

He is also actively involved in advising several Military agencies, Law Enforcement, Corporate, and Government bodies of different countries in these fields. He is a liaison member at FIRST.org which is a consortium of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) from across the globe liaising between CERTs of difference countries and companies in case of cyber-attack

and adversary’s takedown.

Rohit is a well-known Security Evangelist who started India’s first-ever hackers conference and community named “ClubHack” back in 2006. He has had a bunch of start-ups in the past, with the last one acquired by QuickHeal Technology Ltd in 2016.

A teacher at heart, Rohit has designed the entire MTech program in Information Security that is being currently offered by Pune University. He is also a visiting faculty at several A-grade institutions such as IITs, IIMs, Symbiosis, etc. Currently he is teaching web3.0, metaverse and related topics to corporates

and students of various institutions.

He has recently authored a book on personal data security and privacy for techies as well as non-techies. The book is named “My Data My Privacy My Choice” which is available at ecommerce

platforms as well as via https://privacy.clinic. The same recently got translated into Russian as well.

You can reach out to him on X (Twitter) & LinkedIn,

Rohit Srivastwa -

• X - @rohit11
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohit11
• Website - https://rohit11.com

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Podcast Host - Shruthi Kamath

You can reach out to her for guest recommendations for Season 3 on

X - @_Shruthi_k

LinkedIn - https://in.linkedin.com/in/shruthikamath

Sunil Varkey has over 26 years of Security leadership experience, with large global corporates in banking, telecoms, ITES, software and manufacturing.

Sunil is a CTO at Forescout for its EMEA & Asia-Pacific regions, prior to this he led Cyber Security Assessment and Testing for HSBC, he also worked with Symantec as CTO and Strategist, at Wipro as Global CISO, as Head of Security and Privacy at Idea Cellular, and in GE, Barclays and SABB.

He has participated in various advisory forums globally and published and presented various articles sessions related to the information assurance domain. Multiple patent applications of him, on Information security are currently in consideration with patent offices.

Conference details

Day of Shecurity - October 28th & 29th, 2021

• Registration link - dayofshecurity.com/registration

c0c0n 2021 - November 10th - 13th, 2021

• Registration link - https://www.townscript.com/e/copy-of--c0c0n-2021

Pooja has led & strategized large enterprise solutions in Cybersecurity - Identity & Access Management (IAM). She has close to 19 years of experience in Identity & Cybersecurity, she now leads IAM products and solutions at NXP.

Pooja is a noted speaker in multiple technology and Cybersecurity forums. She is currently associated with CSA (Cloud Security Alliance) Bangalore Chapter.

Pooja is an evangelist for women in cybersecurity. She works with diverse communities within her companies and with external groups. Pooja has been awarded as one of Top 20 Indian Women Influencers in Security for 2020 by SecurityToday. She was recently featured in “The Rise of the Cyber Women: Volume Two” book.

Her cybersecurity experience is backed by certifications like CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) and CCSP (Certified Cloud Security Professional). She has completed Design Thinking program from Emeritus in collaboration with MIT, Columbia, Tuck and MTech from BITS, Pilani. Additionally, she is pursuing PhD from PES, Bangalore.

In case you want to reach out to her, you can find her on

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pooja-agrawalla/

Twitter – @PoojaAgrawalla

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Satyavathi has over 24 years’ experience in IT and cyber security and is the go-to person for critical security projects at CyberRes, a Micro Focus line of business, and spearheads enterprise security architecture and cloud technology. She is an inventor, a thought leader, a noted speaker in international and national forums, & has been recognized as Top 10 Women in Tech Leaders in India, Top 20 Indian Women Security Influencer, Women in Tech - Chief Mentor and more. She also serves on the board of nonprofit organizations i.e., Chairman of Cloud Security Alliance, Bangalore, and Global Advisory Board Member - CTIA at EC-Council.

In case you want to reach out to her, you can find her on

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyad/

Twitter - @Satya_Divadari

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Pons Arun is a director of products at Citrix. He is a cyber defense evangelist with more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and a speaker at various security forums. He specializes in building security solutions to protect user and application attack surfaces from manual and automated attacks by embracing behavioral analytics's power. Prior to Citrix, He has held global product leadership positions at Cisco and Oracle.

In case you want to reach out to him, you can find him on twitter by the handle @mudivaipons.

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