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The winter in Kolkata adds a new feather in her cap through a mega Infosec Summit called “Infocon Kolkata 2016” at CII-Suresh Neotia Centre of Excellence, Saltlake on 18th November.
“Infocon Global” is being envisioned as a platform to address the burning concerns in the community. The idea is to engage different stake holders including partners, customers, manufacturers, policy makers, academicians, regulators, end-users to cross pollinate and create unbiased and true wisdom through awareness and sharing of best practices.
The event was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Shri H K Kusumakar Additional CP IV, Kolkata Police alongwith Swami Vedatitananda, Ramakrishna Mission Shilpamandira, Belur Math; Mr.Nirupam Chaudhari, Regional Head – Nasscom , Mr. Manjit Nayek, Additional Director – STPI Kolkata Centre., Mr Hemant Chhabria, Member of COMPASS, Founder of justvideos.
The first session after inauguration was by Mr Sukhminder Singh Sidana, National Manager- Government & Public Sector Business, Sonicwall on “How to Protect Your Organization from Ransomware”, a burning topic in today’s world.
The number of successful cyber-attacks continues to increase, threatening financial and personal security worldwide and cyber forensics is undergoing a paradigm shift.Mr. Jayanta Parial, Principal Engineer, CDAC. Conducted the next session on “Cyber Forensic needs and current Scenarios”.
Next session was covered by Mr. Joydeep Bhattacharya, Chief Operating Officer at TCG Digital Solutions Private Limited. The audience was stunned with the relevance and depth of the topic “Creating Real World Simulation for Training and Network Resiliency”.
Further deliberation was for Data Centre Securities through a panel discussion. The panel was led by Mr. Shyamal Bhattacharya, CEO of Technoplace Consultants. The eminent panellists were Mr. Siddhartha Chakraborty, Officer-in-Charge, Cyber Police Station, Kolkata Police; Mr. Suketu Vichhivora, Vice President – Sales and Solution, Nxtra Data, Mr.Saibal Sarkar, NIC and Mr. Vivek Gupta, DGM and CISO in Allahabad Bank.
The last session before the lunch was from Mr Kanchan Mallick, Regional Manager at Trend Micro for Eastern India, Bangladesh, Bhutan & Nepal. His insights on targeted attacks were major takeaways for the audience.
The lunch was designed with authentic Bengali touch of winter season. The peas kochuri, chana dal, diamond fish fry, cauliflower roast, dhoka curry, Dahi Fish, Mutton, Chatni, Gulab Jamun, Ras malai , Ice-cream all were bundled with personal touch and traditional bengal’s aroma and taste.
The next session was a workshop on “Real Time Information Security Issues Handling as per Best Practices Worldwide”. It was conducted by Mr.Pritam Bhattacharyya, Founder and Chief Wordsmith, Wordsmith Communication andMr.Kaushik Bhattacharyya, Business Strategy Consultant. The workshop was designed to derive solutions of real life problems with the audience inputs and expert panel validation. This was clear cut distinctive differentiation of other conferences in order to have audience engagement in a better way.
Mr. Koushik Nath, VP Systems Engineering India- & SAARC, Cisco Systems, had conducted the next session on “Advanced Security Threat Analysis”. Mr.Nath was instrumental with his audio-visual presentations and unmatched style to hypnotize the audience.
Next session was meant for the Ground Reality in Cyber Crime by the people who handles those in their professional life every day, This was presented by CID – Cyber Crime Technical Expert Team.
The session further was orchestrated by Mr. Ravindra NR, Sr. General Manager, IT & ITES, BSI. The topic “Cloud Security” was relevantly new for the audience, but was truly an eye opener in present emerging trends.
Next was a panel discussion on the topic – Latest Cyber Security Threats and Mitigation Strategies. The panel was moderated by Mr. Arun Agarwal, Chairman and Managing Director, Ebizindia Consulting with eminent panellists Mr. Sandeep Sengupta, MD – ISOAH; Mr. Rajarshi Banerjee,Technical Lead, Cyber Crime, CID; Mr. Angsuman Pal, STF, Kolkata Police and Mr.Biraj Karmakar, Mozilla Reps and Mentor . The session revealed key take aways on today’s always connected generation.
The final session of the day was on Large Enterprise Strategy of Information Security Handling, presented by Mr.Abhijit Chatterjee, CIO, Karam Chand Thapar Group. It was like hearing from horse’s mouth to understand the real strategies taken in real life situation.
Information security industry really has no frontiers. The current and emerging problems not only need global collaboration but it will need a huge workforce with a certain identifiable skill set. In its objective to build awareness, disseminating ideas and training younger generation, Infoconglobal has already become a pioneer in a global theme from Bengal.
