~ 11th Best Practices Meet held in Bengaluru today~
~India needs more Digitization to become a 5 trillion dollar economy~
Bengaluru, July 26, 2019: Data Security Council of India (DSCI) kicked-off its technology centric security conference – Best Practices Meet 2019 in Bangalore today. The annual conference focusses on latest trends, technology advancements in cyber security and privacy domain and cover themes that are shaping the security readiness and maturity of the country. The conference was inaugurated by Mr. Gaurav Gupta, Principal Secretary, Department of IT, BT and S&T, Government of Karnataka under the core theme of ‘Security at Scale’.
Security has become the cornerstone of almost every digital business. While organizations in their digitization journey are embracing state-of-the-art cyber tools technologies to overhaul their business processes for enhanced security, keeping pace with new complex threats can become a daunting task. This year’s theme ‘Security at Scale’ touched upon various sub topics including Zero Trust Security, API Security, Security on Chip, Advanced network Security platforms, Container Security, Incident Management at Hyperscale, Supply Chain Security, Cyber Defence Centre were discussed during the two-day conference. The conference saw the participation of over 400 delegates.
Speaking at the inauguration Mr. Gaurav Gupta said, “In order to become a 5 trillion-dollar economy, more and more digitization is required. Going forward, digitization will pervade not only into the conventional fields of technology and IT services, but also into the fields of agriculture, manufacturing, education etc. With digitization comes many possible security threats. Cyber Security comes as part of the system design and today threats have emerged possibly due to gaps in infrastructure or the system, which needs to be addressed. It is therefore imperative to incorporate it in the system design stage itself.”
“The Government of Karnataka’s commitment to Cyber Security is evident in the fact that we have already set up a Cyber Security Center of Excellence in association with Indian IISc in Bengaluru. In fact, Karnataka Jnana Aayoga has identified Cyber Security as a key focus area. It is important that the Government network, whether the fiber optic network or the data centers, should be secure. The Government is working with several companies and bodies on Cyber Security. We have identified and ensured participation in several global workshops with almost 15 countries including Estonia and Israel. This industry can be the future in terms of job creation, innovation and product development. It is the responsibility of institutions such as the Government, DSCI and NASSCOM to create a platform that can act as a trigger for problem solving of issues that are identified” he added.
In her address, Rama Vedashree, CEO, DSCI said “Our Best Practices Meet, a technology focused conference steps into its second decade. In the context of all-pervasive digitization, rich content delivery, rapid innovation, high speed transactions and every user enterprise turning digital, it becomes imperative for Security to catch up. BPM2019 was crafted around an overarching theme of ‘Security at Scale’, and saw a great blend of Young Innovators and Large Global Corporations converging on cutting edge security stacks needed to scale our Security Preparedness. Building on our decade long experience in Privacy, today we launched a Privacy Application Challenge, and urge Privacy Professionals and Technologists to move to ‘Think Privacy, Think Technology’ mindset.”
DSCI hosted its second edition of Women Security Professionals Forum Meeting at BPM. The initiative ‘Women in Security’ was undertaken by DSCI to bridge gap of women in cyber security profession and nurture and grow these women professionals in various domains of cyber security. There was also a Hands-on workshops on ‘Malware Investigation using Memory Forensics’. These workshops helped the participants to acquire practical skills to examine various malicious programs and equip them with tools and techniques. Over 30 security engineers, and IT administrators, forensic investigators, incident responders and others participated in these workshops. Meet-ups with a specific focus on Product Security & Hardware Security were orchestrated on the sidelines of the conference to bring together the leading experts from across the verticals and deliberate on furthering the respective agendas in the country.
In order to foster innovation in the area of Privacy, DSCI, in partnership with Facebook, launched Privacy Application Challenge presenting five problem statements. The endeavour would encourage start-ups, researchers, entrepreneurs, students, designers, privacy and security professionals, industry to develop technological solutions and innovative products in the domain data privacy.
Leading organisations including Akamai, Target, Blue Sapphaire, iValue and SANS partnered at the conference. Product companies including Spell Security, Attivo Networks, 3rd Eye Techno Solutions, CloudSek and Qos exhibited at the two-day conference.
Corporate Comm India (CCI Newswire)
