Radical
Uncertainty
About Best Practices Meet 2020 (Virtual Event)
In the wake of COVID-19, DSCI shall be hosting the 12th Best Practices Meet (BPM) in a fully virtual mode. BPM has been acting as one of the leading fully technology focussed conferences in Cyber Security and has been facilitating congregation of core technologists, practitioners and users of Security technologies.
“Radical Uncertainty” is the theme for this edition of BPM 2020, and the conference shall focus on Security & Business Resiliency. Having been presented with this unprecedented situation, entire business models have been upended, technology and security are in a state of flux, and companies are evolving, rather adapting fast. This is certainly putting business resilience at test and under tremendous pressure.
How are enterprises planning their security architecture, what new paradigms are getting conceptualized, and the dramatic changes in the attack ecosystem – this and beyond is what BPM 2020 will delve upon.
Broad areas to be covered
Security &
Business
Resiliency
Evolution of
Security paradigms to manage
uncertainties
Transitioning for
the Zero day
Attack on humanity
Vastly
expanded attack
surface

Our speakers
John Kay
John Kay is one of Britain’s leading economists. His work is centred on the relationships between economics, finance and business. His career has spanned academic work and think tanks, business schools, company directorships, consultancies and investment companies. John has been a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford since 1970 and has held chairs at London Business School, the University of Oxford, and the LSE.
John Kay
Economist & Author of Radical Uncertainty
Venkata Satish
Position: Director-Cyber Security, Rediff India
Venkata Satish
Director-Cyber Security, Rediff India
M D Sharath
Position: Superintendent of Police, Cyber Crime Division, CID, Karnataka
M D Sharath
Superintendent of Police, Cyber Crime Division, CID, Karnataka
Dr V Sridhar
Position: Professor, IIIT Bengaluru
Dr V Sridhar
Professor, IIIT Bengaluru
Visagan Subburayalu
Position: Director, Technology, Target in India
Visagan Subburayalu is director of technology of Bengaluru-based Target in India, an extension of the U.S. retailer Target’s headquarters operations. In this role, Visa leads a team that is responsible for building security engineering and cyber security capabilities for Target. Visa joined Target seven years ago as an information security leader. He has helped teams build full stack security engineering capabilities. His current team works towards engineering solutions around Endpoint, Vulnerability Management, Identity & Application security, enabling simple, seamless and secure products. Visa is passionate about diversity and is an advisory board member for eMIP (Engineering Manager Immersion Program), a leadership program for women engineers. He also leads the Executive Women’s Forum (EWF) partnership for Target in India. Visa received a master’s degree in Computer Applications from Kamaraj University.
Visagan Subburayalu
Director, Technology, Target in India
Mohit Singal
Position: Vice President, Technology, Target in India
Mohit Singal is Vice President of Bengaluru-based Target in India, an extension of the U.S. retailer Target’s headquarter operations. Mohit leads some of the most innovative and transformational technology work that has been done in the last 2-3 years in retail. He is instrumental in launching industry leading products in the digital space and therefore making Target a market leader. He leads a large team of engineers both in India and the US who build products that enable the primary transactional functions of commerce across the enterprise. For instance, his teams work makes Target the only retailer in the world to provide guests any number of shopping options such as online (via target.com), order pick up, drive up, same day delivery or opt for a combination of shopping options making Target the most convenient place to shop for our guests. His work brings the best of technology, architecture and product thinking to fore. Mohit has spent over a decade in the ecommerce retail industry working on cutting-edge digital products. His experience ranges from Warehouse management systems, Order Management, Search and Checkout which are the backbone for any retailer today. He also has diverse experience in the Banking and Healthcare industry. Mohit received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from NIT Allahabad.
Mohit Singal
Vice President, Technology, Target in India
Lt Gen (Dr) Rajesh Pant
Position: National Cyber Security Coordinator, India
Lt Gen (Dr) Rajesh Pant
National Cyber Security Coordinator, India
Dr Rajendra Kumar
Additional Secretary, Meity
Naveen Kumar M
In his 12 years at Target, Naveen has gathered diverse career experiences – from enterprise automation consulting, to setting up functional and performance automation capabilities. He’s a professional coach on building a product mindset, engineering practices, software architecture patterns, agile delivery and leadership skills. Naveen currently leads DOJO, Target’s immersive learning experience in India that shapes a new approach to thinking about design, products and guest experience.
Naveen Kumar M
Leader, DevOps and DOJO, Target in India
Bhupesh Gupta
Bhupesh leads a team that is responsible for cyber security capabilities for Target, including Cyber Security Incident Response (CSIR), Threat Intel & detection Engineering (TIDE) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP). He is passionate about diversity and has been working on building a skilled workforce of women in cyber security as a part of SWATI (Security Women at Target in India), a forum for the engagement and retention of women on their security leadership journey.
Bhupesh Gupta
Director, Information Security, Target in India
Amber Sinha
Executive Director, Centre for Internet & Society
Jacxine Fernandez
VP & Group CISO, Adani Enterprise
Jitendra Arora
Head: India Business Controls, State Street Corporate Services (Mumbai) Pvt. Ltd.
Sharda Tickoo
Sharda Tickoo heads the Technology function for Trend Micro, India. She has over 15 years of experience in cyber security domain. She has helped enterprises across various sectors design and implement cyber security controls and technologies. She also . works closely with product management teams to decide and strategize Go to Market plans for Trend Micro security portfolio. In her current role, she consults organizations to identify and highlight cyber security gaps in their environment and advises best possible way to fill the gap and stay secure.
Sharda Tickoo
Technical Director, Trend Micro
H. Ganesh Nagaraj
Ganesh is a Systems Engineer in Palo Alto Networks, with around 15 years of experience, helping enterprises across various sectors, consult, design and implement cyber security controls. Specialized in multiple domains like Network Security, Cloud Security and SOC he has helped many customers to adopt the right security strategy aligning with their digital transformation plan.
H. Ganesh Nagaraj
Systems Engineer, Palo Alto Networks
Anuj Tewari
CISO, HCL
Neil Thacker
Neil Thacker is CISO EMEA for Netskope. Neil holds over 20 years’ experience in the Information Security industry with previous roles at Swiss Re, Deutsche Bank and Camelot Group.
Neil is an advisory board member to the Cloud Security Alliance, advisory board member to NeuroCyber, advisor to ENISA (the EU agency for Cybersecurity) and co-founder and board member to the Security Advisor Alliance, a non-profit organisation for CISOs. Neil is CISSP, CIPP/E and CEH certified and is a frequent speaker and writer on cybersecurity, data protection and privacy-related topics.
Neil Thacker
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) EMEA, Netskope
Yashaswi Mudumbai
Yash comes with extensive cybersecurity experience. Before Tenable, he was with Skybox . He was the Head of Systems Engineering at Skybox for APJC and was responsible for Enterprise accounts and channels. He has also spent considerable time on the technology support side of the business in SonicWall, CSS (Juniper Networks), Norwich Union & HCL
Yashaswi Mudumbai
Solution Architect, Tenable India & SAARC
Riyaz Tambe
Riyaz Tambe is the Director of Systems Engineering for Palo Alto Networks, India & SAARC.
Riyaz has been in the industry for the past 19 years and has been focused on cyber security architectures to make digital life safe from threats.
He is one of the first few to join Palo Alto Networks 7 years back and since then has played an integral part in ramping up Palo Alto Networks business across India & SAARC.
He along with his team are responsible for anything to do with technicalities of the Palo Alto Networks solution and mainly focus on designing cyber security architectures for customers across India & SAARC.
Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Riyaz spent almost 6 years at Cisco and was responsible for driving Cisco’s security business.
Riyaz Tambe
Director of Systems Engineering, India & SAARC, Palo Alto Networks
Adam Palmer
Adam has over 20 years working in cybersecurity. His experience includes executive positions at large cybersecurity vendors, leading the U.N. Global Programme against Cybercrime, and working as the Global Director for IT & Cyber Risk at one of the largest EU banks. Adam’s diverse global background perfectly positions him to understand and advise security leaders to be successful.
Adam Palmer
Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, Tenable
Pawan Chawla
CISO, Future Generali
Nikhil Pahwa
Founder, Medianama
Erich Kron
Erich Kron is a veteran information security professional with over 20 years’ experience in information technology and security. He is the former security manager for the US Army’s 2nd Regional Cyber Center and holds CISSP and CISSP-ISSAP certifications, among others.
Erich Kron
Security Awareness Advocate
Tirthankar Dutta
CISO, Naukri.com
Sridhar Govardhan
Senior Director & Head- IS, Flipkart
Rahul Matthan
Partner, Trilegal
