The Meet provided for an elaborate, 360 degree forum for analysis of the security architecture in India and the World.
Chief Guest, Mr K K Natarajan, CEO, MindTree, highlighted the role of trust as a main catalyst in execution of ones personal, societal, business and public service transactions; Said digital transformation can shake up this trust, unless security is taken care of.
With the focus on making security an inherent component of Digital Transformation, the 7th Best Practices Meet, commonly referred to as ‘BPM’, was held in Bengaluru between 9-10 July, 2015. It successfully looked into the structural and systematic analysis of security, and drove deliberations towards the need to build security by design.
On the agenda were contemporary issues, pertaining to policy matters, efforts taken at national and sectoral levels, proposed industry steps and the market response. Sessions included discussions on globally evolved practices, technology innovation, industry standards and architectural designs, to see how they play their roles in building a secure cyber space.
In his inaugural address, Mr. K K Natarajan, said,
“There has been great push for transforming the economy into a digital economy, complemented by Honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of a digitally empowered nation. As digital technologies on the one hand creates immense opportunities, it give rise to considerable vulnerabilities that can weaken the security posture.”
Highlights of the Meet were the four workshops, including those on ‘Cyber Insurance’ and ‘Management of Legal Risks in IT-enabled businesses’ and , discussing ‘The Wearables: Relevance to Enterprise’, besides two track sessions on ‘Cyber & National Security to an organization’s Information Security’ and ‘Imperatives of Architectural Approach for Solving Security Problems within the Organisations’. Exhibitions by interesting start-ups with burgeoning product innovations and exciting new solutions, also attracted a large audience.
Mr. Nandkumar Saravade, CEO, DSCI, while welcoming the delegates, highlighted the importance of Cyber Security in the Digital World, and said,
“In the current landscape, the industry is witnessing wide-scale adoption of new technology solutions that are leading to building complex digital business models around technological breakthroughs. Cybercriminals take benefit of the scale and complexity brought about by the Digital transformation to attack these business models. Hence, cyber security becomes crucial while architecting the security of these models.”
Over the years, BPM has become a common ground for focused discussions around security. This time around, the two-day Meet witnessed curated sessions for security architects, senior security managers and decisions makers on intricacies in architecting security. Delegates acknowledged the diverse range of plenary and track sessions to be extremely insightful, besides the presence of a wide security and privacy community from India under a single-roof.
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