DSCI Excellence Awards 2018

 
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 Best Security Practices in Organization
Banking
IDFC Bank
Critical Information Infrastructure
BSE Ltd.
Insurance
Max Life Insurance Co. Ltd
Energy
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.
e-Commerce
MakeMyTrip India Pvt Ltd
IT-ITeS/BPM
Large
Infosys
Small/Medium
Quatrro Processing Services Private
Category 2: DSCI Excellence Award for Industry leaders
Security Leader of the Year
Sharad Sadadekar

HDFC life (BFSI)

Ravindranath Hirolkar

EXL Service (IT)

Brijesh Datta

Reliance jio Infocomm Ltd. (CII)

Privacy Leader of the Year
Vasanth Pai

Tech Mahindra

Category 3: DSCI Excellence Award for Best Privacy Practices in Organization
IT-ITes/ BPM
MetLife Global Operations Support Center
Category 4: DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber security Evangelists
Cyber security Services
Aujas Networks Pvt. Ltd.
Cyber security Education
IIT Kharagpur
Raising Security Awareness
HDFC Bank Ltd.
Special Jury Recognition Award Categories
Security Practices in Small Finance Bank
Ujjivan
Security Practices in Data Centres
Netmagic
 
Finalists

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

DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Banking
  • Axis Bank
  • HDFC Bank
  • IDFC Bank
DSCI Excellence Award for Security Insurance
  • HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co. Ltd.
  • Max Life Insurance Co. Ltd.
  • SBI Life Insurance Company Limited
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Critical Information Infrastructure
  • BSE Ltd.
  • Reliance jio Infocomm Ltd.
  • TATA Communications
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in IT-ITeS/BPM
Large
  • Concentrix
  • EXL Service
  • Infosys

Small/Medium
  • Broadridge Financial Solutions (India) Pvt Ltd.
  • Hughes Systique Private Ltd.
  • Quatrro Processing Services Private
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Energy
  • Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
  • Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.
  • Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in e-Commerce
  • MakeMyTrip

*DSCI Excellence Award for Security Practices in Data Centers(Category Dropped)

DSCI Excellence Award for Security Leader of the Year
  • Anand Pande, Goods and Service Tax Networks (GSTN)
  • Brijesh Datta, Reliance jio Infocomm Ltd.
  • Ganesh Viswanathan, Quatrro Processing Services Private
  • Ratan Jyoti, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
  • Rajesh Hemrajani, IDFC bank
  • Ravindranath Hirolkar, EXL Service
  • Rishi Rajpal, Concentrix
  • Sharad Sadedkar, HDFC life
  • Shivkumar Pandey, BSE Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy Leader of the Year
  • Abhinay Anand, Cognizant
  • Sandeep Bansal, Concentrix
  • Vasanth Pai, Tech Mahindra

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

 

DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber Security Services
  • Aujas Networks Pvt. Ltd
  • Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
  • Tek Cube Pvt Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber Security Education
  • Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
  • IIT Kharagpur
  • SRM Institute of Science and Technology
DSCI Excellence Award for Raising Security Awareness
  • Axis Bank
  • HDFC Bank Ltd.
  • HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co. Ltd.

  • Best Security Practices in Small Finance Bank
  • Security Practices in Data Centres
Jury for the Awards
Mr. Pramod Bhasin

(Chair of Jury) Founder, Genpact Chairman, CLIX Capital Services Ex-CEO, GE Capital, Asia & India

Kersi Tavadia

CIO, BSE

Neelam Dhawan

Board member at Royal Philips, Netherlands and ICICI Bank

Prakash Kumar

CEO, GSTN

Vijay Sethi

CIO, Hero MotoCorp

Awards Partners
Process Partner
Awards Sponsor
Category Sponsor
Security Leader of the Year
Law Enforcement Segment
Awards Process for LEA 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.
  • While there will be only one winner, shortlisted finalists will also be honored.
Winners
Category 1: India Cyber Cop of the Year
Mr A.K. Saha

Police Inspector, Cybercrime Police Station, Kolkata City

Excellence in Capacity Building of Law Enforcement Agencies
State Cybercrime Cell, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Police
 
Finalists

Finalists
  • Mr Abhishek Sonekar, Police Inspector, State Cyber H.Q., Madhya Pradesh
  • Mr A.K. Saha, Police Inspector, Cyber Police Station, Kolkata City
  • Mr Anupam Chakraborty, Police Inspector, Detective Department of Barrackpore City police

  • Cybercrime Police Station, Hyderabad City Police
  • Cybercrime Police Station, Kolkata City Police
  • State Cybercrime Cell, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh Police
 
Mr. Loknath Behera IPS

DGP, Kerala Police

Mr. Pratap Reddy IPS

Addl. DGP, Karnataka Police

Mr. Vakul Sharma

Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Awards Partners
Process Partner
Awards Sponsor
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
Joint Winner
Innefu Labs
NetMonastery
Category-2: DSCI Innovation Most Innovative Product of the Year
Winner
SecurelyShare Software Private Ltd.
 
Finalists

 

  • DNIF (NETMONASTERY)
  • Innefu Labs Pvt. Ltd
  • InstaSafe Technologies
  • Lucideus Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Finalists
Finalists
  • ProDMARC
  • SecurelyShare
  • Wijungle
Shortlisted
  • Bluesapphire
  • HaltDos
  • Ironwasp Security
  • ProDMARC
  • SecurelyShare
  • WesecureApp
  • Wijungle
Jury for Product Segment
Rajendra S Pawar

Chairman and Co-Founder of NIIT Group Chair of Jury DSCI Innovation Box

Anand Pande

CISO, GSTN

DSCI Innovation Box & Security Product Company of the Year

Baljinder Singh

Global Head of Digital Transformation & Global CIO, EXL

DSCI Innovation Box & Security Product Company of the Year

Sameer Ratolikar

Executive VP & CISO, HDFC Bank

DSCI Innovation Box & Security Product Company of the Year

Dr. Sanjay Bahl

Director General, CERT-In

DSCI Innovation Box & Security Product Company of the Year

Vikram Gupta

Founder & Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures Advisors Private Limited

DSCI Innovation Box

Awards Partners
Process Partner
Awards Sponsor
Category Sponsor
Security Leader of the Year