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Financial Security
Conclave 2025

The seventh edition of the DSCI FINSEC Conclave is all set to be the perfect congregation of policy, finance, and security spheres. This year's conclave will bring together the expertise, experience, and foresight of leaders, practitioners, policymakers, researchers, developers, and innovators to address the evolving challenges and opportunities in financial security and privacy. As cyber risks continue to evolve, organizations are enhancing their defence strategies with cutting-edge security measures.

Finsec 2025 will delve into pressing themes such as includes Transaction Security, Payment Innovation, LLM Ops, Quantum Blueprint, Resilient Financial Infrastructure, PrivacyOps, Next-Gen Digital Crime, Supervisory Technology and Compliance, ESG Integration, and Multi-Cloud Security Architecture.

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Key Highlights

Cumulative Data of FINSEC Over the Last 6 Years

1500+

PARTICIPANTS FROM
BFSI & FINTECH

130+

SPONSORS/PARTNERS

2500+

COMPANIES

750+

SPEAKERS

2700+

DELEGATES

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EVENT SPEAKERS

Know Who's Speaking

Adarsh Trivedi

Assistant Manager, SEBI

Akanksha Garg

DPO and Head Digital Products PMO, HDFC Securities

Akhil Wadhavkar

CISO, CDSL Ltd.

Dr Anil Prabhakar

Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

Animesh Aaryan

Founder, Taqbit Labs

Aparna Kumar

Digital Transformation Leader, Former CIO, SBI & HSBC

Arijit Chatterjee

Senior Solution Engineer, OPSWAT

Arindam Roy

Country Director – South Asia, SANS Institute

Ashish Malani

Head of Enterprise Security and Technology, M&G Global Services Private Limited

Basil Dange

CISO, Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund

Bhavin Bhansali

Founder & CEO, Progist

Chandra Prakash

Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal India Private Limited

Gautam Kapoor

Managing Director & Lead – Cyber Security, Accenture

Govindraj Basatwar

Managing Director, DoveRunner

Hardik Dixit

Head - Fraud Risk Management, NPCI

Harvinder Gill

Vice President Cyber Security, State Street

Javed Alam

MD & Head of Cyber Security & Fraud Mgmt, TIAA India

Kalpesh Doshi

CISO & DPO, HDFC Life

KM Abdul Salam

Chief Information Security Officer, NABFID

Kriti Trehan

Founder, Data & Co – Law and Policy Advisors

Makesh Chandramohan

Group CISO, Aditya Birla Capital Ltd

Manish Mimani

Founder & CEO, Protectt.ai Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Manisha Singh

Head of Automation & Integration IF&IS, Allianz Technology

Murli Nambiar

CISO, SBI

Nagesh Jha

CISO, NSDL

Dr. Pawan Chawla

CISO, Tata AIA Life Insurance

Priyanka Sharma

Head Of Technology Laws and Data Privacy, Aditya Birla Group

Raghu Vamsi Ajmira

Regional Sales Manager, Exabeam

Rahul Rajendra Prasad

DPO, HDFC

Rahul Tyagi

Technical Advisor, FAIR Institute

Rajesh Thapar

CISO, NSE

Ramakant Mohapatra

Vice President - Global Head - Data Protection and Governance, SISA Information Security Pvt Limited

Ramchandra Kulkarni

Managing Director - Technology Risk, Goldman Sachs

Ramesh Gurram

CISO, BSE

Rishi Dhuper

Managing Director, India Hub, MUFG Pension and Market Services

Rohit Shrivastava

Vice President - Cyber Operations (Digital Forensics and Incident Response), Barclays

Sandeep Mehra

Head Fraud Prevention & Investigation, Yes Bank Ltd.

Satyanandan Atyam

Chief Risk Officer, Tata AIG General Insurance Co

Shalaka Verma

Head of Customer Engineering, Google India

Sourabh Issar

Partner - Cybersecurity, EY

Srambikal Sudhakaran

MD & CEO, QuGates Technologies

Dr. Sriram Birudavolu

CEO, Cyber Security Centre of Excellence - DSCI

Sumedha Adavade

AVP-IT Governance, International Tech GRC | First Abu Dhabi Bank

Swaran Singh

Regional Sales Manager, Exabeam

Shyamkumar Nair

Regional Chief Security Officer - South Asia, Mastercard

Venkat Melam

Executive Director, JPMC

Dr. Vishal Saraswat

Head of Research & Innovation, Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Adarsh Trivedi

Assistant Manager, SEBI

Akanksha Garg

DPO and Head Digital Products PMO, HDFC Securities

Akhil Wadhavkar

CISO, CDSL Ltd.

Dr Anil Prabhakar

Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

Animesh Aaryan

Founder, Taqbit Labs

Aparna Kumar

Digital Transformation Leader, Former CIO, SBI & HSBC

Arijit Chatterjee

Senior Solution Engineer, OPSWAT

Arindam Roy

Country Director – South Asia, SANS Institute

Ashish Malani

Head of Enterprise Security and Technology, M&G Global Services Private Limited

Basil Dange

CISO, Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund

Bhavin Bhansali

Founder & CEO, Progist

Chandra Prakash

Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal India Private Limited

Gautam Kapoor

Managing Director & Lead – Cyber Security, Accenture

Govindraj Basatwar

Managing Director, DoveRunner

Hardik Dixit

Head - Fraud Risk Management, NPCI

Harvinder Gill

Vice President Cyber Security, State Street

Javed Alam

MD & Head of Cyber Security & Fraud Mgmt, TIAA India

Kalpesh Doshi

CISO & DPO, HDFC Life

KM Abdul Salam

Chief Information Security Officer, NABFID

Kriti Trehan

Founder, Data & Co – Law and Policy Advisors

Makesh Chandramohan

Group CISO, Aditya Birla Capital Ltd

Manish Mimani

Founder & CEO, Protectt.ai Labs Pvt. Ltd.

Manisha Singh

Head of Automation & Integration IF&IS, Allianz Technology

Murli Nambiar

CISO, SBI

Nagesh Jha

CISO, NSDL

Dr. Pawan Chawla

CISO, Tata AIA Life Insurance

Priyanka Sharma

Head Of Technology Laws and Data Privacy, Aditya Birla Group

Raghu Vamsi Ajmira

Regional Sales Manager, Exabeam

Rahul Rajendra Prasad

DPO, HDFC

Rahul Tyagi

Technical Advisor, FAIR Institute

Rajesh Thapar

CISO, NSE

Ramakant Mohapatra

Vice President - Global Head - Data Protection and Governance, SISA Information Security Pvt Limited

Ramchandra Kulkarni

Managing Director - Technology Risk, Goldman Sachs

Ramesh Gurram

CISO, BSE

Rishi Dhuper

Managing Director, India Hub, MUFG Pension and Market Services

Rohit Shrivastava

Vice President - Cyber Operations (Digital Forensics and Incident Response), Barclays

Sandeep Mehra

Head Fraud Prevention & Investigation, Yes Bank Ltd.

Satyanandan Atyam

Chief Risk Officer, Tata AIG General Insurance Co

Shalaka Verma

Head of Customer Engineering, Google India

Sourabh Issar

Partner - Cybersecurity, EY

Srambikal Sudhakaran

MD & CEO, QuGates Technologies

Dr. Sriram Birudavolu

CEO, Cyber Security Centre of Excellence - DSCI

Sumedha Adavade

AVP-IT Governance, International Tech GRC | First Abu Dhabi Bank

Swaran Singh

Regional Sales Manager, Exabeam

Shyamkumar Nair

Regional Chief Security Officer - South Asia, Mastercard

Venkat Melam

Executive Director, JPMC

Dr. Vishal Saraswat

Head of Research & Innovation, Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd

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Broad Focus Areas

Transaction Security

Payment Innovations

Talent of Tomorrow

Ransomware Response

LLM Ops

Quantum Blueprints

Resilient Financial Infrastructure

PrivacyOps

Next-Gen Digital Crimes

SupTech

ESG Integration

Adaptive Multi Cloud Security

List of Sessions that are Planned

FINSEC 2025 Agenda

DCRRR Bootcamp

Day 1 | Day 2

Day 01 - June 04

Day 02 - June 05

Special Sessions

Day 1 | Day 2

Quantum Edge Sub-Summit

Day 2

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Day 1

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9:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Intro: Ransomware Landscape ...Modus Operandi, Tactics, Techniques and Procedure
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM	3 unique ransomware case studies, Mitre Attack Map, and Brainstorming on Ransomware Rapid Response Procedures ⁠Identification, Analysis and Internal Reporting Regulatory Reporting ⁠Containment, and Remediation Recovery, & Communications Aftermath and Lesson Learned
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Ransomwares Playbook and Procedures Introduction
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Incident Response Procedure Review and Open

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Day 2: Hands-on Technical Drill based on Ransomware Attack Scenario

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9:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Briefing of Ransomware Attack Scenario / Walkthrough of Rangestorm Platform
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM	Leverage of Threat Intelligence in Incident Response
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM	Spear Phishing Email Header Analysis
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM	Malicious communication with Command-and-Control IP (Attacker C2 IP)
11:30 AM - 12:15 PM	Identified the Initial access and root cause of the attack
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM	Persistence: How Attacker maintains the foothold in the compromised system
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM	Data Exfiltration Detection
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM	Ransomware Payload Execution and Detection
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM	Recovery of Encrypted Files
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Mapping of TTPs on MITRE ATT&CK Navigator
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Post Incident Review and Lesson Learned

2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

PBR 2

Quantum Edge Sub-Summit

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2:00 PM - 2:10 PM	Welcome & Opening Remarks
2:10 PM - 2:20 PM	Keynote Address Securing the Quantum Horizon: Threats & Opportunities for BFSI
2:20 PM - 3:00 PM	Panel Discussion 1 Building Resilient Financial Infrastructures: The Quantum Security Imperative Dr Anil Prabhakar, Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras Srambikal Sudhakaran, MD & CEO, QuGates Technologies Dr. Vishal Saraswat, Head of Research & Innovation, Bosch Global Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM	Tea Break
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM	Panel Discussion 2 Quantum in Action Industry Use Cases and Emerging Deployments Animesh Aaryan, Founder, Taqbit Labs Shalaka Verma,Head of Customer Engineering, Google India
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM	Hands-on Case Study Quantum Security Mapping
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM	Quantum Security Showcase

DAY 1

2:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Lotus

Talent of Tomorrow

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2:15 PM - 2:30 PM	Lotus Welcome Address + DSCI Charter
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM	Lotus Panel discussion Cyber Talent Transformation Trilogy: Reimagining Work Design, Workforce DeveloPMent, and Workplace Experience. Arindam Roy, Country Director – South Asia, SANS Institute
3:15 PM - 3:20 PM	Lotus Q&A + Transition
3:20 PM - 3:35 PM	Lotus Keynote Address Opening Keynote by Senior Industry Leader
3:35 PM - 3:40 PM	Lotus Q&A + Transition
3:40 PM - 4:25 PM	Lotus Panel Discussion Preparing the Technology Workforce of Tomorrow to Innovate and Thrive in the New World
	Lotus Closing Remarks

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM	Lotus ESG Meets Cybersecurity A Collaborative Path to Resilience Invite Only

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Lotus

ESG Meets Cybersecurity

A Collaborative Path to Resilience

*Invite Only*

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	Lotus Workshop Privacy Showcase Personal Data Governance in Banking Sector

4:00 PM - 4:45 PM

Lotus

Workshop

Privacy Showcase

Personal Data Governance in Banking Sector

4:45 PM - 7:00 PM

Lotus

India's BFSI Frontier: Tech, Security & Policy Dialogue.

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4:45 PM - 5:10 PM

Lotus

Central Bank Digital Currency

5:10 PM - 6:00 PM

Lotus

Operationalizing Cybersecurity

Advancing SEBI’s CSCRF for a Resilient BFSI Ecosystem

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Lotus

Responsible AI

Innovation and Adoption in the BFSI Sector

DAY 2

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Lotus The Leadership Imperative Executive Discourse on Frontier Technologies Invite Only

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Lotus

The Leadership Imperative

Executive Discourse on Frontier Technologies

*Invite Only*

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM	GBR Registrations Open
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM	Beyond the Qubit Building a Trillion-Dollar Quantum Economy Vinayak Godse, CEO, DSCI
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM	GBR Inaugural Address
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM	GBR Industry Keynote Address
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM	GBR Industry Keynote Address
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM	GBR Industry Keynote Address
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM	GBR Industry Keynote Address Raghu Vamsi, Regional Sales Manager, Exabeam
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM	GBR Cyber resilience in the intelligent age ...Strategies for enterprise security Rajesh Thapar, CISO, NSE
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM	Networking Lunch
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM	GBR Energizer
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM	GBR 1 Workshop 1	GBR 2 Workshop 2	GBR 3 Workshop 3 From Breach to Blueprint: Real-World Cyber Crisis Lessons for the AI Age Chandra Prakash, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal India Private Limited
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM	GBR 1 Track 1: Agentic AI & Financial Products …Discovering Regulatory Issues Makesh Chandramohan, Group CISO, Aditya Birla Capital Ltd Manisha Singh, Head of Automation & Integration IF&IS, Allianz Technology Ramakanta Mohapatra, Vice President - Global Head - Data Protection and Governance, SISA Information Security Pvt Limited Rohit Shrivastava, Vice President - Cyber Operations (Digital Forensics and Incident Response), Barclays Sumedha Adavade, AVP-IT Governance, International Tech GRC \| First Abu Dhabi Bank	GBR 2 Track 2: PrivacyOps …Every transaction must be legitimate & satisfying obligations Akanksha Garg, DPO and Head Digital Products PMO, HDFC Securities Priyanka Sharmas, Head Of Technology Laws and Data Privacy, Aditya Birla Group	GBR 3 Track 3: Attacks in Financial sector …Key learning lessons Govindraj Basatwar.webp, Managing Director, DoveRunner Ramesh Gurram, CISO, BSE Satyanandan Atyam, Chief Risk Officer, Tata AIG General Insurance Co Swaran Singh, Regional Sales Manager, Exabeam
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM	Networking Tea
4:45 PM - 5:05 PM	GBR DSCI Celebrity Fireside Chat
5:05 PM - 5:20 PM	GBR Fireside Chat Arijit Chatterjee, Senior Solution Engineer, OPSWAT
5:20 PM - 5:40 PM	GBR Fireside Chat
5:40 PM - 6:00 PM	GBR Fireside Chat
6:00 PM - 6:15 PM	GBR The FAIR Way to Third-Party Risk: Practical CRQ for TPRM Leaders Rahul Tyagi, Technical Advisor, FAIR Institute
6:15 PM - 7:00 PM	GBR CEO Panel - Decade of Fintech Innovation ...Examaning dimensions of Trust, Ethics, Security and Privacy
7:00 PM Onwards	Networking Cocktail & Snacks

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM	GBR Registrations Open
8:45 AM - 9:30 AM	Breakfast Session
9:30 AM - 9:40 AM	GBR Report Launch Indian Digital Forensic Market Report
9:45 AM - 10:05 AM	GBR Special Address by NABARD, Chairman
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM	GBR Fireside Chat
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM	GBR Fireside Chat
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM	GBR Fireside Chat
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM	GBR Energizer
11:50 AM - 12:10 PM	GBR Fireside Chat
12:10 PM - 12:30 PM	GBR Industry Keynote Address
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Networking Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM	GBR 1 Track 4 : CBOM in BFSI …Engineering, Diversity, Dependencies, & Scale Shyamkumar Nair, Regional Chief Security Officer - South Asia, Mastercard Venkat Melam, Executive Director, JPMC	GBR 2 Track 5: New Frontiers in Cybercrime …Debunking myths and tackling fraud Akhil Wadhavkar, CISO, CDSL Ltd. Bhavin Bhansali, Founder & CEO, Progist Hardik Dixit, Head - Fraud Risk Management, NPCI Sandeep Mehra, Head Fraud Prevention & Investigation, Yes Bank Ltd.	GBR 3 Track 6 : Zero Trust in Zero Friction …Engineering next-generation authentication* Javed Alam, MD & Head of Cyber Security & Fraud Mgmt, TIAA India Kalpesh Doshi, CISO & DPO, HDFC Life Murli Nambiar, CISO, SBI
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM	GBR 1 Track 7: SupTech …Future of Financial Supervision Basil Dange, CISO, CAditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund Harvinder Gill, Vice President Cyber Security, State Street Dr. Pawan Chawla, CISO, Tata AIA Life Insurance Dr. Sriram Birudavolu, CEO, Cyber Security Centre Of Excellence - DSCI	GBR 2 Track 8 : Data on the Move …Securing mobile devices in dynamic threat landscape* Manish Mimani, Founder & CEO, Protectt.ai Labs Pvt. Ltd.	GBR 3 Track 9: Resilient Backbone …Engineering Fail safe cloud infrastructure for financial operations K M Abdul Salam, Chief Information Security Officer, NABFID Nagesh Jha, CISO, NSDL
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM	Networking Tea Break
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM	GBR GCC CXO Panel Securing the Digital Nerve Center Ashish Malani, Head of Enterprise Security and Technology, M&G Global Services Private Limited Javed Alam, MD & Head of Cyber Security & Fraud Mgmt, TIAA India Ramchandra Kulkarni, Managing Director Technology Risk, Goldman Sachs Rishi Dhuper, Managing Director, India Hub, MUFG Pension and Market Services Sourabh Issar, Partner - Cybersecurity, EY
4:15 PM - 4:35 PM	GBR Diversity Fireside Chat
4:35 PM - 6:00 PM	GBR Nominate Now
6:00 PM Onwards	Networking Dinner