The last 3 days, I've attended the Annual ISACA Conference organized by the Mumbai Chapter. This year's conference was titled "InfoSec Chakravyuha" and was held at the Westin Hotel in Goregaon a Western Suburb of Mumbai.
For those who don't know ISACA is an independent, nonprofit, global association. It engages in the development, adoption and use of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for information systems. You can learn more about ISACA, its members and its activities at its website.
www.isaca.org
The theme of this year's security conference was very aptly written by the conference's organizers and reproduced in their brochure. And I loved the design of the logo and all things about the brochure, mainly because we helped design it.
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In today’s world information is a key to everything that matters. Finance, banking, manufacturing, outsourcing and other industries along with governments thrive on information. Securing the information is really important as the information can be misused if the security measures are not implemented. Due to advancement in the field, implementing of technology is becoming complex and securing the information is becoming equally challenging and complex.
Implementing security in today’s world involved understanding of lot about where and how the information is stored, processed and transferred. Different approaches are used to protect the information with specific measures, which are highly complex.
In continuation of 2012 theme, “Evolving Paradigms in Security”, ISACA Mumbai Chapter is now proudly presents its theme “InfoSec Chakravyuha” for its Annual Conference - 2013.
“Vyuha” is a Sanskrit word which means a formation. It also represents a military array. In the modern world of Information warfare, there needs to be strategy to protect information. The strategy to protect an army is no different from protecting information. As per the Mahabharata there are multiple types of Vyuhas in which the armies are formed.
Amongst them the most complicated formation is the “Chakravyuha”. The nearest English word for Chakravyuha is labyrinth, which is a complex web type formation. Despite challenging times, corporate and individuals are working towards maintaining the security in more innovative and cost conscious manner. We, at ISACA Mumbai Chapter, bringing industry experts and eminent faculties to deliver their views and thoughts on how security can be implemented even with challenges faced. The lectures and presentation would cover the first two days will be followed by workshops on Security and Assurance needs of professionals.
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I attended both days of the Conference as well as the tutorial today. The primary incentive to attend all 3 days was the 21 CPE's (Continuing Professional Education) that I would get, invaluable CPE's required to keep alive my ISACA membership, but also my is2 (www.isc2.org) and PMI (www.pmi.org) memberships.
I enjoyed both days of the conference, but felt that the learning's were limited mainly because most of the Speakers were sponsors and so had an agenda. An agenda to promote their products which resulted, in my opinion to a skewed presentation of knowledge. Anther aspect that I felt left a lot to be desired was the presentation material and skills of the presenters. Most of them are professionals who present globally and yet could learn a lot on presenting skills from High Schoolers. At the very least, they should all visit TED (www.ted.com) and take some lessons from the TED presenters who say such a lot in so little time as opposed to most of the speakers who said very little in over an hours as most of them exceeded their allotted 40 minutes.
The tutorial conducted by K. K. Mookhey was very good. I disagree with some of what he believes, such as "... open source security risks", yet found much of his presentation very useful. Thanks Mr. Mookhey. You can learn more about his company at
http://niiconsulting.com
A big "Thank You" to Mr. Pramod Nayak the president of ISACA Mumbai and his team for inviting me and for making the 3 days memorable. All in all, a productive way to spend my weekend, with the final day just like the dessert. Making everything totally worthwhile.
For those who don't know ISACA is an independent, nonprofit, global association. It engages in the development, adoption and use of globally accepted, industry-leading knowledge and practices for information systems. You can learn more about ISACA, its members and its activities at its website.
www.isaca.org
The theme of this year's security conference was very aptly written by the conference's organizers and reproduced in their brochure. And I loved the design of the logo and all things about the brochure, mainly because we helped design it.
"
In today’s world information is a key to everything that matters. Finance, banking, manufacturing, outsourcing and other industries along with governments thrive on information. Securing the information is really important as the information can be misused if the security measures are not implemented. Due to advancement in the field, implementing of technology is becoming complex and securing the information is becoming equally challenging and complex.
Implementing security in today’s world involved understanding of lot about where and how the information is stored, processed and transferred. Different approaches are used to protect the information with specific measures, which are highly complex.
In continuation of 2012 theme, “Evolving Paradigms in Security”, ISACA Mumbai Chapter is now proudly presents its theme “InfoSec Chakravyuha” for its Annual Conference - 2013.
“Vyuha” is a Sanskrit word which means a formation. It also represents a military array. In the modern world of Information warfare, there needs to be strategy to protect information. The strategy to protect an army is no different from protecting information. As per the Mahabharata there are multiple types of Vyuhas in which the armies are formed.
Amongst them the most complicated formation is the “Chakravyuha”. The nearest English word for Chakravyuha is labyrinth, which is a complex web type formation. Despite challenging times, corporate and individuals are working towards maintaining the security in more innovative and cost conscious manner. We, at ISACA Mumbai Chapter, bringing industry experts and eminent faculties to deliver their views and thoughts on how security can be implemented even with challenges faced. The lectures and presentation would cover the first two days will be followed by workshops on Security and Assurance needs of professionals.
"
I attended both days of the Conference as well as the tutorial today. The primary incentive to attend all 3 days was the 21 CPE's (Continuing Professional Education) that I would get, invaluable CPE's required to keep alive my ISACA membership, but also my is2 (www.isc2.org) and PMI (www.pmi.org) memberships.
I enjoyed both days of the conference, but felt that the learning's were limited mainly because most of the Speakers were sponsors and so had an agenda. An agenda to promote their products which resulted, in my opinion to a skewed presentation of knowledge. Anther aspect that I felt left a lot to be desired was the presentation material and skills of the presenters. Most of them are professionals who present globally and yet could learn a lot on presenting skills from High Schoolers. At the very least, they should all visit TED (www.ted.com) and take some lessons from the TED presenters who say such a lot in so little time as opposed to most of the speakers who said very little in over an hours as most of them exceeded their allotted 40 minutes.
The tutorial conducted by K. K. Mookhey was very good. I disagree with some of what he believes, such as "... open source security risks", yet found much of his presentation very useful. Thanks Mr. Mookhey. You can learn more about his company at
http://niiconsulting.com
A big "Thank You" to Mr. Pramod Nayak the president of ISACA Mumbai and his team for inviting me and for making the 3 days memorable. All in all, a productive way to spend my weekend, with the final day just like the dessert. Making everything totally worthwhile.
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