Torrid Networks’ founder – Dhruv Soi, who also chairs OWASP India and is partner at Securitybyte, organizes India’s largest information security event in India to establish “premium security education platform for public – private sector” on 17th-20th November at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Gurgaon.

Set up with the mission to increase the awareness about information security in the industry, academics, intelligence agencies involved in protection of nation’s critical infrastructure and other government bodies are going to participate in the event along with over 200 CXOs from Fortune companies.
Conference will see some of the most renowned speakers from different parts of the world. Some key note speakers would be Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha VSM, NM & BAR, Chief – Integrated Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence, Mr. Ashwani Kumar, Director – Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Howard A. Schmidt, Former Special Advisor – Cyberspace Security for White House, John Bumgarner, Research Director for Security Technology, U.S Cyber Consequences Unit, Mr. Alok Vijayant, Director – IDG, NTRO, NSA Office, PMO, India, etc.

Elaborating on the need of the conference, Mr. Dhruv Soi, Founder – Torrid Networks, Chair – OWASP India and Advisor – Securitybyte said, “While IT is dominant sector in India, for millions of developers and IT professionals, information Security is still an enigma and area best left to experts. The sophistication of cyber threats and frequency of attacks are ever increasing, making it critical to raise the awareness in the industry and make the source ‘developer and techie’ equipped with right knowledge & tools to develop secure technologies. This challenge has aggregated multifold with our increased dependency on information technology.”

Many internationally renowned experts on cyber security will be speaking at the event. The event also marks an entry of international information security training leaders SANS & ISC2 who are conducting 2 days of hands of trainings by their instructors from USA. To make the event holistic, Securitybyte has arranged for many advanced trainings like Advance forensics techniques, Building advanced network security tools, Advanced web hacking, In-depth assessment techniques etc.”

According to Mr. Bithal Bhardwaj, Strategic Advisor, OWASP India, “This event gets credit for many “First time in India” and comes with the format in-line with other large international information security conference like Blackhat, HITB, DefCon etc. Some of the major highlights of the 4 day event would be parallel conference talk sessions, India Technology Leadership Summit 2009, Simulated hacking challenges like Packetwars, Hackhunt 2009 (India’s best ethical hacker), WebWars III & various in-depth trainings.”

The conference has three main tracks focused on security professionals, developers and leaders in the security space. Speakers like Kevvie Fowler will address the security professionals to talk about techniques used to bypass forensics in databases, additionally speakers like Jason Lam will reveal how their SANS Dshield Webhoneypot Project is coming along. Microsoft Security Response Center will reveal how things work under the cover in their team.

There has been overwhelming response so far and the participation is in amalgamation of the best and the brightest – civil/government servants, successful entrepreneurs, InfoSec experts, hackers, other IT professionals and academia. Complete details about the event is available at www.securitybyte.org to establish “premium security education platform for public – private sector” on 17^th-18^th November at Hotel Crowne Plaza, Gurgaon. Set up with the mission to increase the awareness about information security in the industry, academics, intelligence agencies involved in protection of nation’s critical infrastructure and other government bodies are going to participate in the event along with over 200 CXOs from Fortune companies.

Apart from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam conference will see some of the most renowned speakers from different parts of the world. Some key note speakers would be Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha VSM, NM & BAR, Chief – Integrated Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence, Howard A. Schmidt, Former Special Advisor – Cyberspace Security for White House, John Bumgarner, Research Director for Security Technology, U.S Cyber Consequences Unit etc.

Elaborating on the need of the conference, Mr. Dhruv Soi, Chair – OWASP India and Advisor – Securitybyte said, “While IT is dominant sector in India, for millions of developers and IT professionals, information Security is still an enigma and area best left to experts. The sophistication of cyber threats and frequency of attacks are ever increasing, making it critical to raise the awareness in the industry and make the source ‘developer and techie’ equipped with right knowledge & tools to develop secure technologies. This challenge has aggregated multifold with our increased dependency on information technology.”

Many internationally renowned experts on cyber security will be speaking at the event. The event also marks an entry of international information security training leaders SANS & ISC2 who are conducting 2 days of hands of trainings by their instructors from USA. To make the event holistic, Securitybyte has arranged for many advanced trainings like Advance forensics techniques, Building advanced network security tools, Advanced web hacking, In-depth assessment techniques etc.”

According to Mr. Bithal Bhardwaj, Strategic Advisor, OWASP India, “This event gets credit for many “First time in India” and comes with the format in-line with other large international information security conference like Blackhat, HITB, DefCon etc. Some of the major highlights of the 4 day event would be parallel conference talk sessions, India Technology Leadership Summit 2009, Simulated hacking challenges like Packetwars, Hackhunt 2009 (India’s best ethical hacker), WebWars III & various in-depth trainings.”

The conference has three main tracks focused on security professionals, developers and leaders in the security space. Speakers like Kevvie Fowler will address the security professionals to talk about techniques used to bypass forensics in databases, additionally speakers like Jason Lam will reveal how their SANS Dshield Webhoneypot Project is coming along. Microsoft Security Response Center will reveal how things work under the cover in their team.

There has been overwhelming response so far and the participation is in amalgamation of the best and the brightest – civil/government servants, successful entrepreneurs, InfoSec experts, hackers, other IT professionals and academia. Complete details about the event is available at www.securitybyte.org