DSCI Excellence Awards 2016
DSCI instituted the DSCI Excellence Awards in 2011 in line with its mission, to create trustworthiness of Indian companies as global sourcing service providers, and to assure clients across the world that India is a secure destination for outsourcing, and where privacy and protection of customer data are enshrined in global best practices followed by the Industry segments like Banking,
Corporate Segment
Law Enforcement Segment
Product Segment
Corporate Segment
Objective
- Recognition & Honour: Recognize, honour and reward organizations and individuals who have taken strategic, proactive and innovative security and privacy efforts to help the organization address real risks, build resilience, increase trustworthiness and create a conducive environment for doing business and thus enable the organization to harness data protection as a lever for business growth.
- Elevate the role of Security function: Highlight the importance of security function and its contribution in the overall business ecosystem of an organization.
- Awareness and knowledge: Bring about awareness towards the need for information security and privacy within organizations and society at large.
Winners
Category 1:DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Organization
Bank
Bank of Maharashtra
Telecom
Bharti Airtel Ltd.
e-Commerce
Bharti Airtel Ltd.
BPM Large
EXL Service
BPM - MSME
FIS Global
Energy Sector - Oil & Gas
Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
Energy Sector - Power
Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd.
Note:The below categories have been withdrawn because minimum no. of nominations were not received, as per eligibility criteria
- Security in eGovernance
- Security in Manufacturing
- Security in Healthcare
Category 2: DSCI Excellence Award for Industry leaders
DSCI Excellence Award for Security Leader of the Year
Abhinav Biswas
ECIL (Manufacturing Sector)
JS Sodhi
Amity Education Group (Academia Sector)
Shiju Rawther A
CIBIL (Financial Services Sector)
Sunil Varkey
Wipro (IT-BPM Sector)
DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy Leader of the Year
Nity Singh
Concentrix
Category 3: DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy in Organization
Best Privacy Practices in IT-BPM Sector
WNS Global Services (P) Ltd.
Best Privacy Practices in User Industry
Vodafone India Pvt. Ltd.
Category 4: DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber security Evangelists
Cyber security Services
Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd.
Cyber security Education
SRM University
Raising Security Awareness
HDFC Bank Ltd.
Special Jury Recognition Award
Cyber security Initatives by a State
Telangana State
Raising Security Awareness amongst Masses
VP Shintre & Associates
Finalists
Following are the finalists in different categories, listed in alphabetical order.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Bank
- Bank of Maharashtra
- Central Bank of India
- HDFC Bank Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Telecom
- Bharti Airtel Ltd.
- Tata Communications
- Vodafone India Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Internet, Mobile & e-Commerce
- Bharti Airtel Ltd.
- MakeMyTrip India Pvt. Ltd.
- Reliance Payment Solutions Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in IT - BPM
Large
- Concentrix
- EXL Service
- Infosys Ltd.
Small/Medium
- Broadridge Financial Solutions (India) Private Limited
- FIS Global
- Hughes Systique Pvt. Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Energy Sector Organization
- Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd.
- Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
- Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd.
Note:The below categories have been withdrawn because minimum no. of nominations were not received, as per eligibility criteria
- Security in eGovernance
- Security in Manufacturing
- Security in Healthcare
DSCI Excellence Award for Security Leader
- Abhinav Biswas, ECIL
- Baljinder Singh, EXL
- Dr. JS Sodhi, Amity Education Group
- Rishi Rajpal, Concentrix
- Sameer Ratolikar, HDFC Bank
- Shiju Rawther A, CIBIL
- Sunil Varkey, Wipro
DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy Leader
- Amit Pradhan, Vodafone
- Nity Singh, Concentrix
- Sandeep Khare, WNS
DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy in IT - BPM Sector
- Concentrix
- EXL Service
- WNS Global Services (P) Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Best Privacy Practices in User Industry
- HDFC Bank Ltd.
- Tata Global Beverages Ltd.
- Vodafone India Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber security Services
- Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd.
- C-DAC
- SISA Information Security Pvt. Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber security Education
- BITS Pilani
- Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science
- SRM University
DSCI Excellence Award for Raising Security Awareness
- Bharti Airtel Ltd.
- HDFC Bank Ltd.
- VP Shintre & Associates
Jury for the Awards
Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj
Mr. M.V. Tanksale
Former Chief Executive of Indian Banks’ Association and former chairman of Central Bank of India
Prof Huzur Saran
Lt Gen. (Retd) Davinder Kumar
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Bank
Eligibility Criteria:
- Applicant must be a banking company, operating in India, and should have been providing banking related services as per RBI norms and other related laws of the land.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Telecom
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Applicant must be a telecom company, operating in India and should have been providing mobile, landline or other telecom services as per TRAI guidelines and other related laws of the land.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Internet, Mobile & e-Commerce
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Private sector Oorganizations, operating in India, must be providing e-commerce/online services over the Internet, whether B2B, B2C, C2B, and C2C market segment.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in IT - BPM
Large
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Applicant must be an IT- BPM company, operating for a minimum of three years in India with a turnover of INR 1000 crores or more for the financial year 2015 – 2016.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
Small/Medium
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Applicant must be an IT-BPM company, operating in India, with a turnover of less than INR 1000 crores for the financial year 2015 – 2016.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Energy Sector Organization
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Applicant must be an energy sector (oil/ power/ gas/ coal/ nuclear or renewable energy sources) company operating in India.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security Leader
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Individuals nominating for ‘Privacy Leader of the Year’ category cannot nominate in this category.
- Individual should be from Indian private or public sector.
- Individual must have been performing leadership roles in security as a CISO/ CSO/ VP/ Director/ Security head or equivalent.
- Individual for whom IT security management comprises at least 50% of his / her role.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy Leader
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Individuals nominating for ‘Security Leader of the Year’ category cannot nominate in this category.
- Individual should be from Indian private or public sector.
- Individual must have been performing leadership roles in privacy.
- Individual for whom privacy management comprises at least 25% of his / her role.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy in IT - BPM Sector
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Applicant must be an organization from outsourcing sector operating in India.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
DSCI Excellence Award for Best Privacy Practices in User Industry
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Applicant must be an organization, other than from the outsourcing sector operating in India.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber security Services
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Applicant must be an organization, operating in India and should have been offering and delivering cyber security/ information security services.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber security Education
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Applicant must be a recognized university/college/institute, and should have been offering cyber security/ information security course/degree approved/accredited by any central/state/deemed university in India.
- The course/degree should be functional, i.e., at least one batch should be enrolled for it.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
DSCI Excellence Award for Raising Security Awareness
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Applicant must be an organization/entity/individual operating for a minimum of two years in India, and should have been sensitizing the cyber security/ information security to mass audience.
- Your application would be eligible for evaluation only if this award category receives 3 or more than 3 different nominations.
Awards Partners
Process Partner
Category Sponsor
DSCI Excellence Award
Security Leader of the Year
Law Enforcement Segment
- To recognize and honour an Officer who has done the most outstanding investigation in solving a cyber crime
- To recognize and honour a state police/police agency for efforts made in overall capacity building through workforce development, investigation & forensics capability development, skill enhancement through trainings & workshops etc.
Winners
Excellence in Capacity Building of Law Enforcement Agencies
NDCRTC, National Polica Academy
India Cyber Cop Award for Excellence in Cyber Crime Investigation
Mr M D Puwar
PI, Gujarat Police
Finalists
- CBI Academy Ghaziabad
- NDCRTC, NPA
- Telangana State Police Department
Finalists
- Mr Naresh Kumar Sharma, DSP, CBI
- Mr M D Puwar, PI, Gujarat Police
- Mr K V M Prasad, PI, Hyderabad Police
Mr. Loknath Behera IPS
Director General of Police, Kerala Police
Mr. CH Pratap Reddy IPS
Additional Commissioner of Police, CID, Karnataka
Mr. Vakul Sharma
Advocate, Supreme Court
Categories and Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Nomination must only be sent by State / UT Police (eg: Karnataka Police, Haryana Police, Chandigarh Police etc.)/Commissionerate (eg., Pune police, Kolkata Police) or Investigation/intelligence Agencies created by central government (eg: CBI,NIA, Income tax department etc.).
Finalists
- Eligibility Criteria:
- India Cyber Cop Award for Excellence in Cyber Crime Investigation
- Only one officer should be nominated for each nomination, i.e., a state /investigation agency can nominate only 5 officers for five different cases.
- Investigation done by any state police organisation in the country, including the National Investigation Agency, Central Bureau of Investigation etc. will be considered.
- Cases should be of important or sensitive nature
- Which have the potential to impact the usage of Information Technology strategically by central & state governments, industry/industries or services availed by citizens (including impact on adoption of e-governance applications/ E-Commerce/social media by Governments/Organisations/citizens)
- or those which have caused public concern / created curiosity amongst the common citizen(s)
- The investigating team should have made use of electronic and, technology-based tools to solve the case.
- Cases investigated & finalized without invoking IT Act, 2000 (As amended by amendment Act, 2008) will NOT be considered for the award evaluation process.
- Cases in which investigation is completed, and charge sheet is submitted to the court of law or those closed for other reasons, during the period - 1st August 2015 to 25th September 2016- will be considered, irrespective of year of registration. However, due weightage will be given for speedy and expeditious investigation. Also, the cases that were investigated effectively within the limits of available resources. Cases ended up with Conviction during the above period may also be nominated.
- Since investigation is a team effort, the parent organisation must nominate one person representing the team, who has participated in the investigation, and who has contributed critically and substantially to the success of the investigation. The entry should clearly bring out the role played by the officer nominated. Officers associated with the investigation in a supervisory or advisory capacity should not be nominated for the Award.
Awards Partners
Process Partner
Category Sponsor
DSCI Excellence Award
Security Leader of the Year
Product Segment
Indian industry is riding high on the wave of entrepreneurial traction in a niche domain of cyber security and security product development with over 50 security product companies emerging in last few year. Though, currently at nascent stage, these organizations are enjoying robust sales traction and moving forward with the concern of being recognized in the global world.
In order to provide impetus to the growth of Indian cyber security market, DSCI, is working towards contributing and building a favorable ecosystem for growth-led, sustainable business segments of security product & services companies in the country. Many initiatives and activities have been undertaken by DSCI to encourage indigenous product development, proving platform to the startups to connect with the key stakeholders of the ecosystem. With an intent to provide more impetus to these organizations, DSCI has launched Excellence awards for Product companies’, which is comprised of two categories ‘Security Product Company of the Year’and ‘Most Innovative Product of the Year (Innovation Box)’.
The objective of this initiative is to recognize, honor and reward organizations who come up with the innovative product idea and emerging companies to address real risks, build resilience, increase trustworthiness and create a conducive environment for businesses thus enabling organizations harness security as a lever for business growth.
The initiative is an attempt to provide support to product companies in various aspects by bringing these new players near to established security leaders, innovators other stakeholders on a common platform for idea sharing, guidance and collaboration.
Objective
- To promote innovation and indigenous products development in the domain of security and privacy
- Providing platform to showcase emerging and innovative products.
- Provide platform to the innovators & startups to assist them in increasing the market reach their products.
- Assisting/Mentoring the best innovator/startup for pre-defined period.
- Assisting the companies to connect with VC and promoters.
Winners
Category-1: DSCI Excellence Award for Security Product Company of the Year
Indusface Pvt. Ltd.
Category-2: DSCI Excellence Award for Most Innovative Product of the Year (Innovation Box)
IllusionBLACK Smokescreen Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Finalists
Following are the finalists in Emerging Information Security Company category, listed in alphabetical order.
- Indusface Private Limited
- Netmonastery NSPL
- ShieldSquare (Kaalbi Technologies Pvt Ltd)
Finalists
- Garuda by Tata Communications Limited
- HaltDos DDoS mitigation solution by HaltDos Pvt. Ltd.
- IllusionBLACK by Smokescreen Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
- Arctos Network APT Security by Arctos Networks
- BluSapphire by BluSapphire Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
- DataShark by MakeMyTrip India Pvt. Ltd.
- Garuda by Tata Communications Limited
- HaltDos DDoS mitigation solution by HaltDos Pvt. Ltd.
- IIIusionBLACK by Smokescreen Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
- TrueTraffik by True Traffik Software Solutions LLP
Jury for the Awards
Mr. Baljinder Singh
Mr. Hemal Patel
Mr. Vikram Gupta
Mr. Sundeep Sahi
- Eligibility Criteria:
- The company which has developed Information Security product(s) can apply.
- Company should be registered in India.
- Product (mentioned in the nomination form) should be designed and developed in India.
- IPR/Patents, if any, should be owned by the Indian entity.
- Company that has won this award earlier is not eligible to apply
- A Company nominating any product for ‘DSCI Innovation Box’ category cannot nominate in this category.
Categories and Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility Criteria:
- Innovative Security/ Privacy Products which should not have violated/ breached/ copied any idea/ concept/ product already copyright or patent can be nominated.
- Company nominating in Innovation Box should comply with the startup definition as given in startup India Acton plan launched by Hon’ble Prime Minister on January 16, 2016. (for definition refer Annexure 1)
- Company started as a services company, and launched the first product after August 15, 2011, can also apply but such company must need to produce Declaration/ Proof of the 1st product launch date. In this case company has to provide details specific to the product segment and not include details of the services segment.
- The product should have been designed and developed in India.
- For the nominated products if there is any IPR/Patents registered, it should be owned by the Indian entity.
- Company that has won this award earlier is not eligible to apply.
- Evaluation Process:
- Level I: DSCI and PwC will do first level of screening after receiving the nominations based on the quality and completeness of the responses provided in the respective nomination forms.
- Level II: DSCI and PwC may seek additional information / artifacts from the shortlisted nominations and if required, may also conduct onsite visits & interviews and subsequently shortlist finalists.
- Level III: The Jury will evaluate the finalists along with the contribution component of audience votes through polling. Based on weighted marking, the winner will be decided.
- Evaluation Criteria:
Judging products according to the following criteria:
- Product Idea (25 marks)
- Product relevance, novelty, USP and Vision
- Product Roadmap (25 marks)
- Product commercialization, management and ecosystem
- Organization Profile (20 marks)
- Promoter, Leadership, Management and Experience
Awards Partners
Process Partner
Category Sponsor
DSCI Excellence Award
Security Leader of the Year
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