The four day event beginning today, witnessed participation from developers, CTOs and security professionals bringing together security thought leaders like Richard Marshall, Department of Homeland Security, Alexander, Edward Schwartz - VP and Divisional CISO, RSA, Hord Tipton - Executive Director, (ISC)2, Jay Bavisi - President & Co-Founder, EC-Council, Sridhar Jayanti – India Managing Director, McAfee Inc. and Shouvick Mukherjee - CEO India, Yahoo! to discuss and debate the security issues and solutions in India and worldwide.
Inaugurating the event, His Excellency Shri, H R Bhardwaj – Governor of Karnataka mentioned “In this ever shrinking world we cannot forget the significance of having a secure cyber space. I hope initiatives like this will help in creating awareness among the people and doing so will help us technologically advance in this era”
I am very happy to know that the SECURITYBYTE is happening in Bangalore this time. I hope this event will help in throwing light on the information technology and security related issues and be a great success by helping us understand the importance of IT security in India’s rapidly expanding technology landscape” added Mr. H Prabhu, IAAS, Principal Account General, Karnataka.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Whitfield Diffie, Father of Public Key Encryption,
VP for Info. Security at ICANN & Scientific Advisor to Uniken said, “We are starting to live in an environment that is increasingly controlled by technology, in turn controlled by people. It is therefore very crucial that we have a thorough understanding of information security needs and possible threat areas.
Nishchal Bhalla, Founder Securitybyte added, bringing awareness to Indian developers, managers & decision makers alike by bringing intelligence experts and national speakers under the same roof to build more secured environment. Securitybyte also provided a platform for students and professionals to partake in hacking competition to not only have their skills but also learn defensive mechanism
The conference comprising of 22 talks, 39 speakers, 10 trainings and 2 panel discussions will see sharing of a wealth of knowledge and experiences by eminent cyber security experts like, Bryan K. Fite, British Telecom, John Bumgarner, US Cyber Consequence Unit, Alexander Polyakov, CTO ERPScan, John McColl, Security Assessment, New Zealand Bishan Singh, Yahoo! India and Aseem Jakhar to name a few. Issues ranging from security threats on social networks to infrastructural needs to hacking corporate telephony will be discussed by these security experts.
About SECURITYBYTE
“Security 2011” is being held from September 6th - 9th in Bangalore. The four day event brings together security thought leaders both nationally and internationally to discuss and debate the security issues and solutions in India and worldwide. The conference will have participation from various Corporations, Government & private Security Agencies. Issues ranging from security threats on social networks to infrastructural needs to hacking corporate telephony will be discussed by security experts like, Bryan K. Fite, British Telecom, John Bumgarner US Cyber ConsequenceUnit, Richard Marshall, Department of Homeland Security, Alexander Polyakov, CTO ERPScan, John McColl, Security Assessment, New Zealand ,Bishan Singh, Yahoo! India and Aseem Jakhar to name a few.
