DSCI Excellence Awards 2020

 
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
State Bank on India
Critical Information Infrastructure
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
Insurance
HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.
Small or Medium Financial Institutions (NBFCs)
SBI Card
Government Sector
Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)
IT-ITeS/BPM
Large
Tata Consultancy Services
Small
AGS Health Pvt. Ltd.
Category 2: DSCI Excellence Award for Industry leaders
Security Leader of the Year
Rishi Rajpal

Concentrix (IT-ITeS)

T R Venkateswaran

Punjab National Bank (Banking)

Shivkumar Pandey

Bombay Stock Exchange (Critical Information Infrastructure)

Vinayak Chandra Gupta

Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (Government)

Privacy Leader of the Year
Sameer Ratolikar

HDFC Bank Ltd.

Category 3: DSCI Excellence Award for Best Privacy Practices in Organization
IT-ITes/ BPM
EXL Service
B2C
Vodafone Idea Ltd.
Category 4: DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber security Evangelists
Cyber security Services
Tata Communications Ltd.
Cyber Security Education
VIT Bhopal University
Raising Security Awareness
Cyber Security Centre of Excellence, Govt. of West Bengal
Special Jury Recognition Award Categories
Best Security Practices in Small or Medium Financial Institutions (NBFCs)
Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
Raising Security Awareness
End Now Foundation
Cyber Frontliners of the Country
CERT-In
 
Finalists

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

DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Banking Sector
  • Bank of Maharashtra
  • Canara Bank
  • HDFC Bank
  • State Bank of India
DSCI Excellence Award for Security Insurance
  • HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd.
  • ICICI Lombard General Insurance Company Ltd.
  • Reliance General Insurance Company Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in Critical Information Infrastructure
  • Bombay Stock Exchange
  • Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.
  • Tata Communications Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Best Security Practices in Small or Medium Financial Institutions (NBFCs)
  • Equitas Small Finance Bank
  • SBI Card
  • Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
DSCI Excellence Award for Best Security Practices in Government Sector
  • Cyber Security Centre of Excellence, Govt. of West Bengal
  • Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)
  • Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN)
DSCI Excellence Award for Security in IT-ITeS/BPM

Large

  • Concentrix
  • Tata Consultancy Services
  • WNS


Small

  • AGS Health Pvt. Ltd.
  • eClerx Services Ltd.
  • Hughes Systique Pvt. Ltd.

DSCI Excellence Award for Security Leader of the Year
  • Mr. Anil Kumar Singh Bhandari (State Bank of India)
  • Mr. Arup Chatterjee (WNS)
  • Mr. Rajesh Kumar (EXL Service)
  • Mr. Rishi Rajpal (Concentrix)
  • Mr. Shivkumar Pandey (Bombay Stock Exchange)
  • Mr. T R Venkateswaran (Punjab National Bank)
  • Mr. Vinayak Chandra Gupta (Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs)
DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy Leader of the Year
  • Mr. Manish Tiwari (Bharti Airtel Ltd.)
  • Mr. Sameer Ratolikar (HDFC Bank Ltd.)
  • Mr. Shivkumar Pandey (Bombay Stock Exchange)

DSCI Excellence Award for Privacy in IT-ITeS/BPM Sector
  • BlueConch Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
  • EXL Service
  • NIIT Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Best Privacy Practices in B2C Sector
  • Bharti Airtel Ltd.
  • HDFC Bank Ltd.
  • Vodafone Idea Ltd.

DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber Security Services
  • Aujas Cybersecurity
  • Infosys Ltd.
  • Tata Communications Ltd.
DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber Security Education
  • Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science
  • Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology
  • VIT Bhopal University
DSCI Excellence Award for Raising Security Awareness
  • Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC)
  • Cyber Security Centre of Excellence, Govt. of West Bengal
  • End Now Foundation

  • Best Security Practices in Small or Medium Financial Institutions (NBFCs)
  • Raising Security Awareness

  • DSCI Excellence Award for Best Secuirty Practices in E-Commerce
  • DSCI Excellence Award for Best Security Practices in Energy
Jury for the Awards
C.P. Gurnani

(Jury Chair) CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra

G. Narendra Nath

Joint Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat

Praveena Raih

Chief Operating Officer, NPCI

Rishi Mehta

Senior Director Technology, Target

Sanjay Kotha

Joint President & Group CIO, Adani Enterprises Limited

Award Categories
Category 1: DSCI Excellence Award for Best Security Practices in Organization
  • Best Security Practices in Banking Sector
  • Best Security Practices in Small or Medium Financial Institutions
  • Best Security Practices in Energy Sector
  • Best Security Practices in Critical Information Infrastructure
  • Best Security Practices in Insurance Sector
  • Best Security Practices in e-Commerce
  • Best Security Practices in IT-ITeS/BPM Sector
  • Best Security Practices in Government Sector
Category 2: DSCI Excellence Award for Industry Leaders of the Year
  • Security Leader of the Year
  • Privacy Leader of the Year
Category 3: DSCI Excellence Award for Best Privacy Practices in Organization
  • Best Privacy Practices in IT-ITeS/BPM Sector
  • Best Privacy Practices in B2C sector
Category 4: DSCI Excellence Award for Cyber Security Evangelists
  • Cyber Security Services
  • Cyber Security Education
  • Cyber Security Awareness
Awards Partners
Process Partner
Awards Partner
Category Partners
Best Security Practices in Critical Information Infrastructure
Best Security Practices in IT-ITeS/BPM
Innovation Box
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
D. A. Lakra

Police Inspector, Cybercrime Police Station, Kolkata

Excellence in Capacity Building of Law Enforcement Agencies
Cyberdome, Kerala Police
 
Finalists

Finalists

  • Mr. A. Lakshmi Narayana Rao, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Disha Women Police Station, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh
  • Mr. D. A. Lakra, Police Inspector, Cybercrime Police Station, Kolkata
  • Mr. Narendra Gome, Police Inspector, State Cyber Cell Zone Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh

  • Cybercrime Police Station, Kolkata Police
  • Cyberdome, Kerala Police
  • State Cyber Police, 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 Partner
Category Partners
Best Security Practices in Critical Information Infrastructure
Best Security Practices in IT-ITeS/BPM
Innovation Box
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
Winner
Cloud SEK
Category-2: DSCI Innovation Most Innovative Product of the Year
Winner
AuthBase Pvt. Ltd.
 
Finalists

 

  • Accops Systems Private Ltd.
  • CloudSEK
  • InstaSafe

Finalists

Finalists
  • Albot Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
  • AuthBase Pvt. Ltd.
  • Fortytwo42 Technology Innovations Pvt. Ltd.
  • oneDPO LLP
  • Seconize Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
  • Volon Cyber Security Pvt. Ltd.
  • WeSecureApp
Shortlisted
  • AuthBase Pvt. Ltd.
  • oneDPO LLP
  • Volon Cyber Security 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

Ajit Menon

Chief Security Officer, Tata Consultancy Services

Atul Batra

Chief Technology Officer, Manthan

G. Narendra Nath

Joint Secretary, National Security Council Secretariat

Rajnish Kapur

Managing Partner, Indian Angel Network

Awards Partners
Process Partner
Awards Partner
Category Partners
Best Security Practices in Critical Information Infrastructure
Best Security Practices in IT-ITeS/BPM
Innovation Box
Security Leader of the Year