This report presents a bird’s-eye view of the proceedings of the 16th edition of the DSCI’s flagship Summit. Via this report, we present to you some of the key takeaways from the deliberations that were hosted as part of the conference. The readers of the report would find value in the wide range of themes that were taken up by subject matter experts in a thoughtful and meaningful fashion.

AISS 2021 hosted sectoral meetups, sub summits, parallel track sessions, fire side chats, short presentations, masterclasses and host of other formats. The summit also hosted the 11th edition of the Excellence Awards which has been celebrating the noteworthy contributions of individuals and organizations in Cyber Security and Data Protection.

The core and fundamental intent of the Summit was to enable, facilitate, organize and orchestrate collective learning, experience sharing, impactful dialogues, differential diagnoses of security and privacy issues and challenges, consensus building and future casting. This enablement would happen by capitalizing on the elements such as perennial ideas, contextual awareness, technological capabilities, problems and use cases.