DSCI Excellence Awards 2017

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

 
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
HDFC Bank
Critical Information Infrastructure
Bharti Airtel (Telecom)
Insurance
SBI Life Insurance
Energy
HPCL
G2C
Income Tax Department CPC & e-Filing
IT-ITeS/BPM
Large
Concentrix
Small/Medium
Broadridge Financial Solution
Category 2: DSCI Excellence Award for Industry leaders
Security Leader of the Year
Bharat Panchal

NPCI(Digital Payments)

Shiv Kumar Pandey

BSE (CII)

Vishal Salvi

Infosys (IT-ITeS)

Privacy Leader of the Year
Sandeep Bansal

Concentrix

Category 3: DSCI Excellence Award for Best Privacy Practices in Organization
Privacy in IT-ITeS/BPM Sector
EXL
Privacy in User Industry
Bharti Airtel
Category 4: DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber security Evangelists
Cyber security Services
Aujas Networks
Cyber security Education
Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science
Raising Security Awareness
VISA
Special Jury Recognition Award
Best Security Practices in Payments Bank
Airtel Payments Bank
Cyber Security Research by Academic Institute
IISc, Bangalore
Satish Asnani, BHEL

Emerging Security Leader

 
Finalists

Following are the finalists in different categories, listed in alphabetical order.

DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Banking
  • Axis Bank
  • HDFC Bank
  • Vijaya Bank
DSCI Excellence Award for Security Insurance
  • HDFC Life Insurance
  • Oriental Insurance
  • SBI Life Insurance
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Critical Information Infrastructure
  • Bharti Airtel (Telecom)
  • BHEL, Haridwar
  • Bombay Stock Exchange
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in IT-ITeS/BPM
Large
  • Concentrix
  • Tata Consultancy Services
  • Tech Mahindra

Small/Medium
  • Broadridge Financial Solutions
  • Fareportal India
  • Hughes Systique
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Energy
  • Cairn India (Oil & Gas)
  • HPCL
  • NTPC
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in G2C
  • Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC)
  • Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN)
  • Income Tax Department – CPC & e-Filing
  • National Informatics Centre (NIC) - MeghRaaj
  • Passport Seva

DSCI Excellence Award for Security Leader of the Year
  • Baljinder Singh, EXL Service
  • Bharat Panchal, NPCI
  • Bithal Bhardwaj, GE Digital
  • Lucius Lobo, Tech Mahindra
  • Shiju Rawther, TransUnion CIBIL
  • Shiv Kumar Pandey, BSE
  • Vishal Salvi, Infosys
DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy Leader of the Year
  • Amit Pradhan, Vodafone
  • Prashant Mehta, TransUnion CIBIL
  • Sandeep Bansal, Concentrix

DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy in IT-ITeS/BPM Sector
  • Concentrix
  • EXL Service
  • MetLife Global Operations

DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy in User Industry
  • Bharti Airtel
  • HDFC Bank
  • Vodafone India

DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber security Services
  • Aujas Networks
  • C-DAC
  • Rolta India
DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber security Education
  • Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science
  • MS Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences
  • SRM University
DSCI Excellence Award for Raising Security Awareness
  • C-DAC
  • HDFC Bank
  • VISA

  • Best Security Practices in Payments Bank
  • Cyber Security Research by Academic Institute
  • Emerging Security Leader
Jury for the Awards
Mr. Pramod Bhasin

Founder, Genpact |Chairman, CLIX Capital Services |Chairman, The Skills Academy |(Chair of Jury)

Ms. Harmeen Mehta

Global CIO & Head of Digital, Bharti Airtel

Mr. Bishwanath Ghosh

CIO, Mahindra & Mahindra

Mr. Paresh Sukthankar

Deputy Managing Director, HDFC Bank

Mr. Nandkumar Saravade

CEO, REBIT

Mr. Prakash Kumar

CEO, GSTN

Awards Partners
Process Partner
Associate Partner
Category Sponsor
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.
Awards Process for LEA Segment
  • Consolidation of all the cases and other information received from various police organisations will be done by DSCI & process partner.
  • First level of screening will be done by DSCI and Process Partner to shortlist three finalists in each category.
  • Subsequent to short listing of finalists, the eminent jury panel will evaluate the finalists and decide the winner. The winners will be announced during the DSCI-NASSCOM Annual Information Security Summit at New Delhi in December 2017.
  • While there will be only one winner, shortlisted finalists will also be honored.
Winners
Category 1: India Cyber Cop of the Year
Mr. K. E. Baiju

ACP, Kerala Police

Excellence in Capacity Building of Law Enforcement Agencies
CID, Telangana State
 
Finalists

Finalists
  • Mr. Atanu Santra, Police Inspector, CID, West Bengal Police
  • Mr. K. E. Baiju, ACP, Kerala Police
  • Mr. Sunil Vishnu Pawar, Sr. Police Inspector, Pune Police

  • CBI Academy, Ghaziabad
  • CID, Telangana State
  • Kerala Police
  • Kolkata Police
 
Mr. Loknath Behera IPS

Director General of Police, Kerala Police

Mr. Pratap Reddy IPS

Additional Commissioner of Police, CID, Karnataka

Mr. Vakul Sharma

Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Awards Partners
Process Partner
Associate Partner
Category Sponsor
Security Leader of the Year
Product Segment

The 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 the last few years. Though, currently at a 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 start-ups 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 innovative product ideas, 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 nearer to established security leaders, innovators other stakeholders on a common platform for idea sharing, guidance and collaboration.

Winners
Category-1: Security Product Company of the Year
Smokescreen Technologies
Category-2: DSCI Innovation Most Innovative Product of the Year
Winner
Lucideus Technologies
Security Brigade
Runner Up
AppsPicket
 
Finalists

 

DSCI is pleased to inform that the short listing process for DSCI Excellence Awards 2017 of the Product Segment has been completed. Following are the finalists in ‘Security Product Company of the Year’ category, listed in alphabetical order. Shortlisted entries will be evaluated and graded by the eminent jury panel and winner will be announced in the Awards ceremony on 14th Dec in NASSCOM-DSCI Annual Information Security Summit 2017 in Gurgaon. We wish all the finalists the very best.

  • Netmonastery
  • ShieldSquare
  • Smokescreen Technologies

Finalists
Innovation Box | Finalists (In alphabetical order)
  • AppsPicket
  • Lucideus Technologies
  • Security Brigade
Innovation Box | Finalists (In alphabetical order)
  • Adoroi Tech Ventures
  • AppsPicket
  • Block Armour
  • HaltDos
  • Instasafe
  • Kratikal Tech
  • Lucideus Technologies
  • Primeauth
  • Security Brigade
Jury for Product Segment
Mr. Ashutosh Jain

Chief Information Security Officer, Axis Bank

Prof. N. Balakrishnan

Department of Aerospace Engineering and Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science (IISc)

Mr. Vishal Salvi

Chief Information Security Officer and SVP, Infosys

Jury for Innovation Box
Mr. Vishal Salvi

Chief Information Security Officer and SVP, Infosys

Mr. Shivkumar Pandey

Chief Information Security Officer, BSE LTD

Dr. Sanjay Bahl

Director General, Cert-In

Mr. Venkat Vallabhaneni

General Partner, Parampara

Dr. Bindu Dey

Secretary, Technology Development Board