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 actively involved in advising several Military agencies, Law Enforcement, Corporate, and Government bodies of different countries in these fields. He is a liaison member at FIRST.org which is a consortium of Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) from across the globe liaising between CERTs of difference countries and companies in case of cyber-attack

and adversary’s takedown.

Rohit is a well-known Security Evangelist who started India’s first-ever hackers conference and community named “ClubHack” back in 2006. He has had a bunch of start-ups in the past, with the last one acquired by QuickHeal Technology Ltd in 2016.

A teacher at heart, Rohit has designed the entire MTech program in Information Security that is being currently offered by Pune University. He is also a visiting faculty at several A-grade institutions such as IITs, IIMs, Symbiosis, etc. Currently he is teaching web3.0, metaverse and related topics to corporates

and students of various institutions.

He has recently authored a book on personal data security and privacy for techies as well as non-techies. The book is named “My Data My Privacy My Choice” which is available at ecommerce

platforms as well as via https://privacy.clinic. The same recently got translated into Russian as well.

You can reach out to him on X (Twitter) & LinkedIn,

Rohit Srivastwa -

• X - @rohit11
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rohit11
• Website - https://rohit11.com

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Podcast Host - Shruthi Kamath

You can reach out to her for guest recommendations for Season 3 on

X - @_Shruthi_k

LinkedIn - https://in.linkedin.com/in/shruthikamath

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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://nullcon.net and https://hardwear.io security conferences. He is currently working on solving the IoT Security problem with his latest venture EXPLIoT. He is an active speaker and trainer at various security conferences like AusCERT, Black Hat, Defcon, Brucon, Hack.lu, Hack in Paris, Hack In The Box, PHDays, Zerocon and many more. He has authored various open source security software including:

• EXPLIoT - IoT Exploitation Framework https://expliot.io
• DIVA Android (Damn Insecure and Vulnerable App for Android)
• Jugaad/Indroid - Linux Thread injection kit for x86 and ARM
• Dexfuzzer - Dex file format fuzzer

Murtuja Bharmal is a cybersecurity entrepreneur with a 20-year track record in the industry. His accomplishments include the creation of a dynamic cybersecurity ecosystem encompassing "null - The open security community" (http://null.community), the well-known nullcon security conference (https://nullcon.net), and the Hardware Security Conference (https://hardwear.io). These platforms serve as essential hubs for connecting like-minded individuals, facilitating the exchange of cutting-edge research, building professional connections, and keeping organizations updated about the latest developments in the cybersecurity industry for their protection. Murtuja currently holds the position of Director of Services at Payatu, a leading provider of cybersecurity testing services. In this role, he oversees day-to-day operations, leveraging his extensive expertise to drive the company's growth.

You can reach out to them on X (Twitter) & LinkedIn,

Aseem Jakhar -

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/aseemjakhar/
• @aseemjakhar

Murtuja Bharmal -

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/murtujabharmal/
• @murtuja_bharmal

Bsides Odisha - 2nd Dec 2023

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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, innovating by using the latest technologies, exploring greenfield areas, and constantly pushing himself to learn something new on a daily basis.

He has given a workshop at Defcon'17 and spoken at conferences such as Black Hat Arsenal, Defcon Recon Village, Toorcon, Rootcon and AtlasCamp.

You can reach out to him on Twitter & LinkedIn,

Twitter - @anshuman_bh LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshumanbhartiya/

Conference registration details,

Bsides Singapore - 22nd Sept 2023

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Bsides Ahmedabad - 6th Oct 2023

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Use the following discount codes:

• SOIJBSIDESAHM (10% off on conference Passes)
• SOIJTRAINBSIDESAHM (20% off on Training Passes)

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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 leads the Application Security team at Netflix. She is passionate about security & mentoring aspirants who would like to enter or grow in the field of security. She has been a speaker at the Day of Shecurity conference

You can reach out to her on,

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lakshmisudheer/

About Day of Shecurity

• Day of Shecurity - https://www.dayofshecurity.com/
• May 2023 conference recording - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZmDOwMdzR_y-C_jqWGrXVcx367J5bo2h
• Day of Shecurity Nov 2023 conference - https://www.dayofshecurity.com/nov-2023-conference
• Volunteering sign-up - https://securediversity.org/volunteer/

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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 Security at Philips HealthTech, Bangalore. In her career of 25 years, she has rich experience in architecture, design, development, and is now responsible for securing systems. She has been instrumental in setting up the Security Center of Excellence (SCoE) in Philips. Under her leadership, SCoE got the medical industry first UL firm registration. She is also leading the Philips cross functional team for harmonizing the SBOM generation, Securing Cloud applications, DevSecOps and initiatives around secure development lifecycle.

She has a Masters in electrical engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and bachelor’s in engineering from NIT Rourkela. She holds CISSP, GCIH, CEH, CCSK certifications. She has been an advocate of product security at various national and international forums like HIMSS, RSA, DSCI, Nullcon etc.

She teaches underprivileged children, and likes spending time with family, doing yoga, reading and travelling.

You can reach out to her on

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/minatee-mishra/

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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.

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Farah started her journey in cybersecurity 3 years ago while she was working on her media degree in Mumbai. After working a few internships and a full-time gig at Bugcrowd, she recently joined Meta and will be a part of their bug bounty team managing their Whitehat program. In her free time, she is also a part-time bug bounty hunter and cybersecurity content creator on various social media platforms.

You can reach out to her on

• Twitter - @Farah_Hawaa
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/farah-hawa-a012b8162/
• Instagram - farah_hawaa
• Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@FarahHawa

Day of Shecurity youtube link - https://www.youtube.com/c/DayofShecurity

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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 20 Indian Women Security Influencer, Women in Tech - Chief Mentor and more. She also serves on the board of nonprofit organizations i.e., Chairman of Cloud Security Alliance, Bangalore, and Global Advisory Board Member - CTIA at EC-Council.

In case you want to reach out to her, you can find her on 

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/satyad/ 

Twitter - @Satya_Divadari

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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 leadership positions at Cisco and Oracle.

In case you want to reach out to him, you can find him on twitter by the handle @mudivaipons.

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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 and has been a speaker for various profound public events on cloud and cybersecurity. She is an advisor for various technology communities and a non-profit organization, i.e. Women in Cloud and BBWIC.

In case you want to reach out to her, you can find her on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-pandey-05671412b/

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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. She has 11 years of teaching experience. Her teaching and research interests include information security, image forensics, machine learning, and cyberpsychology.

In case you want to reach out to her, you can find her on twitter by the handle @AngieGokhi

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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(Vienna), several universities, and IEEE forums in India. Shyam has also taught an "Advanced malware attacks and defences" class in Stanford University's cybersecurity program, which Great Lakes Institute powers and teaches threat intelligence/cyber forensics at Symbiosis Centre for Information Technology Pune. He runs a mentoring program called "Being Robin", where he mentors students all over the globe on cybersecurity. Shyam's interviews have been published on leading websites like ZDNet and CISO MAG.

In case you want to reach out to him, you can find him on twitter by the handle @hackerbat

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Saumil Shah is the founder and CEO of Net-Square. He is an internationally recognised cyber-security researcher, hacker, speaker, instructor and entrepreneur for over 25 years. He has regularly presented at conferences like Blackhat, RSA, CanSecWest, PacSec, EUSecWest, Hack.lu, Hack-in-the-box and others. He has authored two books titled “Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense” and “The Anti-Virus Book”.

He spends his leisure time breaking software, flying kites, travelling around the world and taking pictures.

In case you want to reach out to him, you can find him on twitter by the handle @therealsaumil.

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Amol Naik is a CISO at an Indian Ed-Tech company. He has about 16+ years of experience and has led multiple teams in both the offensive and defensive side of security. Apart from helping and building a security program for organizations, he finds his interests in Security Research, Bug Bounties, Vulnerability Research and Exploit Development. He is also an author of a playground focused on learning the exploitation of client-side web vulnerabilities - Bodhi. He is an active member at various Infosec Communities and has also been a speaker & trainer at multiple conferences like NullCon, c0c0n & Ground Zero Summit.

In case you want to reach out to him, you can find him on twitter by the handle @amolnaik4.

Jayesh Singh Chauhan is a Director of Product Security at Sprinklr & Founder of Cloud Village at DEF CON.

He is a security professional with 10 years of experience and has presented at various conferences like BlackHat Arsenal (USA, EU Asia), DEF CON DemoLabs, HackMiami, OWASP & c0c0n. He has authored several tools, including CS-Suite, OWASP Skanda, RFID_Cloner, and CSRF PoC generator.

He has also been a chapter leader at Null Bangalore chapter. You can find him on twitter by the handle @jayeshsch. 

Neelu works as Security Practice Lead with ThoughtWorks India. Her array of experience spans across Vulnerability Assessments and Penetration Tests of Web Applications & Network along-with Red Team engagements, Source Code Reviews, Threat Modelling and Design Reviews of web applications & APIs, Data Leakage Investigations, Configuration reviews, Social Engineering engagements, etc.

She has been a trainer at BlackHat US, organized ReconVillage at Defcon & Social Engineering Village at Nullcon. Currently in the Review Panel for NullCon. She has been actively involved with the Indian security Community and have moderated Null Mumbai and Bengaluru chapters.

You can find her on twitter by the handle @NeeluTripathy.

In this episode, we are learning about about Lekshmi Nair's journey. She is seasoned Cyber Security professional with over 19 years of experience in the field of Security, Risk and Compliance, Privacy, Data Security and Application Security. She is currently a Managing Principal at Synopsys Inc.

She is a passionate leader and a Cyber security evangelist. She has been an ambassador of multiple initiatives for Diversity and Women in Technology.She was the Chair of the Women in Security Excelling- India Chapter at IBM consisting of 600+ members. This forum work towards bridging the gender gap in Cyber Security space. She is one of the founding member and General Secretary of Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS) India chapter. 

She is a regular speaker in renowned universities and forums and avid advocate of Cyber Security career. She was featured as Women security achievers in CISO Magazine. She won the Top Women Security Influencers in India by Security Today and Wosec and Women of Influence Award by Executive Women’s Forum (EWF).

In this episode, we are learning about Shubham's journey in the Information Security industry. Shubham Mittal is an Information Security Enthusiast & a Co-Founder at RedHunt Labs. 

This is an introduction episode to the podcast which gives an overview of the podcast host & what the podcast is about.

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