Stories of Infosec Journeys - Indian Edition Shruthi Kamath

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

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://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


Tickets - https://www.townscript.com/v2/e/bsides-odisha-conference-430040/booking/tickets

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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, 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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Schedule - https://bsidessg.org/schedule/



Bsides Ahmedabad - 6th Oct 2023


Tickets - https://bsidesahmedabad.in/registration


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 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 confirmed about talking for the 1st time on a podcast.

Tune in to this almost 2 hour long episode to learn in detail about his journey.


Speaker Intro

Vivek Ramachandran is the Founder of SquareX, which is building a productivity-first consumer security product and has raised a 6M USD seed round from Sequoia Capital SEA.

Previously, he was the Founder, CEO of Pentester Academy which trained thousands of customers from government agencies, Fortune 500 companies,
and smaller enterprises from over 90 countries. Pentester Academy was acquired by INE in 2021.

Vivek has been researching Wi-Fi security for over a decade. He discovered the Caffe Latte attack, broke WEP Cloaking, conceptualized enterprise Wi-Fi Backdoors, created Chellam (Wi-Fi Firewall), WiMonitor Enterprise (802.11ac monitoring), Chigula (Wi-Fi traffic analysis via SQL), Deceptacon (IoT Honeypots) and others. He is the author of multiple five star rated books on Wi-Fi security which have together sold over 20,000+ copies worldwide and have been translated to multiple languages.

He is a regular speaker/trainer at top security conferences such as Blackhat USA, Europe and Abu Dhabi, DEFCON, Brucon, HITB, Hacktivity and
others. Vivek’s work on wireless security (Caffe Latte attack) has been quoted in BBC online, InfoWorld, MacWorld, The Register, IT World Canada and others.


You can reach out to him on



Twitter - https://twitter.com/vivekramac
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vivekramachandran/
SquareX - https://sqrx.com/

SquareX LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/squarexonline/



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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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