Winter in Kolkata has different flairs like charming weather, sweets prepared from “Nolen Gur”, Circus, Picnic, Hopping between Zoo-Museum-Science City-Nicco Park, Different Fairs-Exhibitions-Summits. With the emerging problems of Global Warming, Kolkata is not far behind to experience diminishing winter along with other fading glories.
The charms of life, spirits of soulmates, passion of humanities are still stands ahead with any of the advanced city across the globe.
This November 18, 2016, Kolkata proved it once again. 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.
Infocon Global is essentially an idea which has manifested itself through deliberations, practice, my running day to day business operation as CEO of Prime Infoserv LLP and interactions with clients, competition, colleagues and peers.
The more we converge towards an increasingly connected world, information keeps on flooding between anything to everything and then of course information security becomes a point of concern. People start panicking and common sense takes back-seat. But there is a solution to every problem and counter measures to defend, protect and launch offensive attack do exist as well. But the mechanism, process and knowledge are in silos and in effect are not meaningfully available as a whole. Different and piece-meal, adhoc and fragmented measures are being projected as solutions resulting in people becoming more anxious, confused and decision making culminates into dilemma.
“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. Infocon2016 today is a continuation of this search for collaborative wisdom. Prior to that, two similar events were organized on this theme by us – one in Bangladesh and the other in the United Kingdom, again in a collaborative model.
“Infocon Kolkata 2016” is more like a milestone in a relay race because the issue is truly global and will affect not only us but our next generation. In an information intensive society, all the components of the society will be impacted by any cyber-attack or security breach. In order to have as much harmony and totality, we have brought experts and organizations related to Technology, Process and People Consulting, Law Enforcement, Financial institution, Policy Making, Data Handling, Cyber Law, Policing and so on. What is interesting to observe is that all these diverse fields of society find mutual overlap just like Internet is going to overlap all the areas of our lives and we call this Internet of things.
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.
Post lunch, the summit had witnessed the launch of our journal and mouthpiece on Information security named Infoquest. Infoquest is a journal with broad-spectrum treatment of the theme of Information security with interdisciplinary stakeholders. Infoquest captures in the lens of words the kaleidoscopic perspective on the theme with contributions from a wide group of authors in India and abroad. Infoquest was formally launched by Sri Syed Waquar Raza, IPS, SS(Spl), CID, West Bengal alongwith Editor-in-Chief, Mr Pritam Bhattacharya, Mr. Kamal Agarwal, Chairman, Eastern Regional Product Council-Nasscom and me as chairman of Infocon Global. We were overwhelmed by the contributions we received when we launched our Call for Papers. Infoquest is planned to be a quarterly journal and we hope it shall continue to receive your patronage and co-operation.
Our 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 and Mr.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.
Further we had moved from Information Security to some soul-warming music through the musical performance by a Bengali folk band – Surma Dohar, led by Joyshankar.
In between the music, we had recognized significant contribution in different spheres like best three articles in our journal, ICT Promotion, Cyber Law, Cyber Crime, IT strategy and consulting, Data Science and Analytics, video as new media, cloud communication, Business Intelligent Architecture and Bengali folk music. We further acknowledged the contribution of our core team and volunteers. Without them such a mega summit could not be seamlessly organized.
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.
Infocon Kolkata 2016 is just a beginning. We hope to see all of you once again on 24th November 2017 at Kolkata where we shall walk again with Kolkata and you.
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