Stories of Infosec Journeys - Indian Edition

Speaker Intro Rohit Srivastwa is founder of BharatVerse, a Metaverse being developed specifically for Bharat. With 20 years of experience and successful exits, he has been focusing on the domain of information security and now pivoted into web3. Now he is a “Certified Metaverse Expert” and also provides training as well as coaching to students as well as corporates in this domain. He is also activ...

Speaker Intro Aseem Jakhar is the Director, R&D at Payatu https://payatu.com a research-powered cyber security services company specialized in IoT, Embedded, cloud, mobile and infrastructure security. He is the founder of null-The open security community, a registered not-for-profit organization and one of the largest security communities in Asia https://null.co.in and also organizes https://n...

Speaker Intro Anshuman is an Information Security Professional with more than a decade of experience in the security industry. He has worked with various organizations like Cigital, EMC, Intuit, Atlassian, Thirty Madison and currently at Lyft as Security Engineer. At the core, he loves building programs from the scratch, working on difficult and interesting security engineering problems, innovatin...

This episode is in association with Day of shecurity conference which happened in May 2023. In this episode we talk about our love for food, infosec journeys, career growth,communities & very insightful thoughts on taking breaks. Tune in to listen to what Lakshmi has to say! Speaker Intro Lakshmi Sudheer is a security professional with over a decade of experience in security. Currently, she le...

In this episode listen to Vivek talk about how he was introduced to computers & how an internship in Switzerland helped him find his calling in infosec, his journey from SecurityTube.net to Pentester Academy , to writing comic-books for security enthusiast and eventually starting his current venture SquareX . This episode brings you the exclusive story of Vivek's infosec journey which he c...

In this episode, Minatee speaks about how she was introduced to infosec, her experience of being in a leadership role and advice for folks interested in moving to leadership role. She has a beautiful insight on how she deals with failures and criticism and also talks about the latest trends in infosec. Tune in to listen to her journey! Speaker Intro Minatee Mishra, who is the Director of Product S...

In episode we learn about how Farah got started with cybersecurity while she comes from media background. She talks about how she's passionate about content creation in cybersecurity. She also talks about some of the latest trends she sees in infosec and definetly has advice for folks starting out in the industry. Tune in to this episode to learn more about her journey. Speaker Intro Farah sta...

In this episode, Madhu talks about how he began his cybersecurity career, his experiences with bug bounty, the learning in his journey. He about folks who played a role in his journey of where he is today especially the communities he was associated with. He also has insightful advice to folks starting out. Tune in to this fun episode to learn more about his journey. Speaker Intro Madhu is a pragm...

Speaker Intro Kushaagra Mehra is a subject matter expert on deception tech and has spent the past five years helping organisations across several industry verticals build detection strategies and countermeasures. During his time at Smokescreen Technologies, he designed campaigns and implemented deception at scale for numerous organisations, including Fortune 500s. These days, he pairs his expertis...

In this episode, Abhijeth talks about how he got hacked and began his cybersecurity career, his experiences with bug bounty, the learning and challenges in his journey. He makes it a point to give due credit to folks who played a role in his journey of where he is today especially the communities he was associated with. He also has insightful advice to folks starting out. Listen to what he has to...

In this episode, Ravi talks about how he had planned to get into security, about his experience of being in a blue team and some stories of working in those teams. He has some insightful advice to folks starting out in the industry.  Tune in to this episode to learn more. Speaker Intro Ravi has over 12 yrs of experience of being part of the Blue Team. Currently he leads threat detection team for A...

In this episode, Sandesh talks about how he got started with security, about his experience of security communities, his newsletter,  latest trends of infosec and advice to folks starting out in the industry.  Tune in to this episode to learn more. Speaker Intro Sandesh Anand is an InfoSec professional based in Bangalore. He has worked for over a decade in helping companies build and mat...

In this episode, Swapneel talks about his infosec journey,about his current work, his experience of being a community trainer and some cool projects he worked on. He has some really nice advice for people starting out the infosec industry.  Tune in to this episode to learn more.  Speaker Intro Swapneel is the CEO of Shreshta IT, who has worked in Information Security for 15+ years. He is...

**SEASON 2** In this episode, Abhay shares about his infosec journey and how he was introduced to it? He also talks about his current work, his experience of running an infosec company, the communities he is associated with and advice for people starting out & in the infosec industry.  We have introduced rapid round questions this season. Tune into the episode to learn more!! Speaker Intr...

**CONFERENCE SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE** Aditi Bhatnagar is an Independent Security Researcher focusing on Android security, cloud, web apps, and wireless network attacks. She is currently a Product Security Engineer at Atlassian and has previously worked as a Core Engineer building features for endpoint security products at Microsoft. Through her initiative, Infinite Hacks, she is spreading cyber a...

**CONFERENCE SPECIAL EDITION EPISODE** Rony Das who is a speaker at Nullcon, 2022 conference. He is based out of Assam, India and he started his Infosec journey in 2013. His curiosity is towards Android Security, it is the same curiosity that pushed him to research on Android-specific security features that are being implemented by Google when he was researching for Android Malware development in...

SEASON FINALE IS HERE! Jay Hira is a Cyber Security Strategy and Transformation Director with over 15 years of international experience supporting financial services organisations to become more cyber resilient through the adoption of Zero Trust principles to build trust and attract more customers, enabling growth. He is experienced at developing efficient and business-aligned cyber resilience str...

Satyavathi has over 24 years’ experience in IT and cyber security and is the go-to person for critical security projects at CyberRes, a Micro Focus line of business, and spearheads enterprise security architecture and cloud technology. She is an inventor, a thought leader, a noted speaker in international and national forums, & has been recognized as Top 10 Women in Tech Leaders in India, Top...

Pons Arun is a director of products at Citrix. He is a cyber defense evangelist with more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and a speaker at various security forums. He specializes in building security solutions to protect user and application attack surfaces from manual and automated attacks by embracing behavioral analytics's power. Prior to Citrix, He has held global product leadersh...

Priya Pandey is Manager with EY FSO Cybersecurity Team in Hong Kong. She has over 7 years of successful experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, cloud transformation strategy, data security and governance across multiple industries such as Financial Services, Public Sector, Manufacturing and Luxury industry. In addition, she is an active contributor to multiple women in technology communities...

Pooja has led & strategized large enterprise solutions in Cybersecurity - Identity & Access Management (IAM). She has close to 19 years of experience in Identity & Cybersecurity, she now leads IAM products and solutions at NXP. Pooja is a noted speaker in multiple technology and Cybersecurity forums. She is currently associated with CSA (Cloud Security Alliance) Bangalore Chapter. Pooj...

Angelina Gokhale is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology, Pune. She holds a PhD, Masters and Bachelors degree in Computer Science. She also has a Masters degree in Business Management with Human Resources and Marketing Management as specialization subjects. Her doctoral work revolves around image forensics using deep learning techniques. Sh...

Shyam Sundar Ramaswami is a Senior Security Researcher with Cisco's Research and Efficacy team, a two-time TEDx speaker, and a cybersecurity teacher. Shyam is also a co-author of the book titled "It's your digital life". He has delivered talks for several conferences such as Black Hat (Las Vegas), Qubit Forensics (Serbia), Nullcon 2020 (Goa), Cisco Live (Barcelona), HackFest (Canada), DeepSec(Vien...

This episode is in association with Day of shecurity conference which happened on Oct 28th & 29, 2021. Bishakha Jain was a speaker at Day of Shecurity. Bishakha currently works as a Senior Cybersecurity Consultant at IBM. She is an active Cybersecurity Evangelist and is appointed as the Associate Lead for Education and Awareness for IBM's community for women in Security called WISE for the Ind...

Manoj Abraham is currently the Additional Director General of Police, Thiruvananthapuram, and the Head of Cyber Security, for Kerala state. He has done a lot of work in the area of Community policing- Maitri and Janamaitri. He has also coauthored a book called- Global Community Policing- Problems and Prospects, published by Taylor and Francis Publications. He is the Chief architect of the c0c0n co...