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
Critical Information Infrastructure
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
Insurance
SBI General Insurance Company Ltd.
Government
Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN)
Large
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Small/Medium
Broadridge Financial Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Category 2: DSCI Excellence Award for Industry leaders
Security Leader of the Year
Sameer Ratolikarr
HDFC Bank Ltd. (BFSI)
Manish Tiwari
Bharti Airtel Ltd. (CII)
Privacy Leader of the Year
Rajesh Kumar
EXL Service
Category 3: DSCI Excellence Award for Best Privacy Practices in Organization
Category 4: DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber security Evangelists
Cyber security Services
Tata Communications Ltd.
Special Jury Recognition Award Categories
Improved Security Practices in Banking
Union Bank of India
Fantastic Effort in Raising Security Awareness in Community
Cyber Peace Foundation
Extraordinary Outreach in Raising Security Awareness
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
Anand Pande
Goods and Services Tax Network Emerging Security Leader of the Year
Finalists
Following are the finalists in different categories, listed in alphabetical order.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Banking Sector
- Axis Bank
- HDFC Bank Ltd.
- Union Bank of India
DSCI Excellence Award for Security Insurance
- Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company Ltd. (The Company Ltd.)
- HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.
- SBI General Insurance Company Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Critical Information Infrastructure
- Bharti Airtel Ltd.
- BSE Ltd.
- Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in IT-ITeS/BPM
Large
- Concentrix
- Infosys
- Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.
Small/Medium
- AGS Health Pvt. Ltd.
- Broadridge Financial Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd.
- Hughes Systique Pvt. Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Best Security Practices in Government Sector
- Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)
- Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN)
- National Health Authority (NHA)
DSCI Excellence Award for Security Leader of the Year
- Anand Pande, Goods and Services Tax Network
- Arup Chaterjee, WNS
- Manish Tiwari, Bharti Airtel Ltd.
- Sameer Ratolikar, HDFC Bank Ltd.
- Sharad Sadadekar, HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.
- Shiv Kumar Pandey, BSE Ltd.
- Vikram Mehta, MakeMyTrip India Pvt. Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy Leader of the Year
- Rajesh Kumar, EXL Services
- Vikram Patil, L&T Infotech
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
- Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
- Maharashtra Cyber
- Tata Communications Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Raising Security Awareness
- Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
- Cyber Peace Foundation
- HDFC Bank Ltd.
- RedFM
- Union Bank of India
- DSCI Excellence Award for Improved Security Practices
- DSCI Excellence Award for Emerging Security Leader of the Year
- DSCI Excellence Award for Best Security Practices in Small Finance Banking Sector
- DSCI Excellence Award for Security Practices in Retail Sector
- DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber Security Education
- DSCI Excellence Award for Best Privacy Practices in B2C Sector
Jury for the Awards
Mr. Pramod Bhasin
(Chair of Jury) Founder, Genpact Chairman, CLIX Capital Services Ex-CEO, GE Capital, Asia & India
Aruna Rao
Advisor for Strategic Technologies
G Narendra Nath
Joint Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat, GOI
Vidya Srinivasan
SVP- IT , Infrastructure and Risk at GENPACT
Awards Partners
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
B. P. Raju
Deputy Superintendent of Police, Central Bureau of Investigation
Excellence in Capacity Building of Law Enforcement Agencies
Andhra Pradesh, State Police
Finalists
Finalists
- Abhishek Sonekar, Police Inspector, State Cyber H.Q., Madhya Pradesh
- B. P. Raju, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Central Bureau of Investigation
- D. A. Lakra, Police Inspector, Cybercrime Police Station, Kolkata
- Andhra Pradesh State Police
- Cybercrime Police Station, Kolkata Police
- Telangana State 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
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
Sequretek IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Category-2: DSCI Innovation Most Innovative Product of the Year
Special Jury Recognition Award Categories
Security Product Company of the Year
Quick Heal Technologies Ltd.
Finalists
- CloudSEK Information Security Pvt. Ltd
- Lucideus Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
- Quick Heal Technologies Ltd.
- Sectona Technologies Pvt. Ltd
- Sequretek IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd
- Subex Digital
Finalists
Finalists
- Anlyz Cybersecure Private Limited
- Arrka Infosec Pvt Ltd.
- AuthBase
- Ironwasp Security
- ProgIST Solutions
- QNu Labs
- Tek Cube Pvt Ltd (WeSecureApp)
Jury for Product Product Company of the Year
Dr. Gulshan Rai
Former National Cyber Security Co-ordinator, Govt. of India Chair of Jury
Brijesh Datta
Executive Vice President & CISO, Reliance Jio
Raman Roy
Chairman & MD, Quatrro Global Services Pvt. Ltd.r
Sameer Ratolikar
Executive VP & CISO, HDFC Bank
Venkat Vallabhaneni
General Partner, Parampara Capital
Jury for DSCI Innovation Box
Raman Roy
Chairman & MD, Quatrro Global Services Pvt. Ltd.r
G. Narendra Nath
Joint Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat, Government of India
Jaspal Singh Sawhney
Chief Information Security Officer, Tata Communications
Ashutosh Jain
CISO, Axis Bank
Sridhar Rampalli
General Partner, Parampara Capital
Awards Partners