The guest speaker was Sandeep Sengupta, who is currently the Director at “Indian School of Anti Hacking (ISOAH)”. He is a lead auditor for Information Security (ISO 27001), Data Protection & Privacy / GDPR (ISO27701), Business Continuity (ISO 22301); a Certified Ethical Hacker & CISA. Working over the last 21 years in Information Security industry in New Zealand, Singapore and India; companies he has audited are PWC, KPMG, Tata Steel, SAIL, Capgemini, Genpact, ITC, Airtel, Vodafone, ONGC, National Power Grid, Bandhan Bank, PayU, Vedanta, Accenture, etc. He works closely with CID & lalbazaar police dept and has been part of cyber cell raids. He helps MNCs, PSUs, SME companies in information security health check using Penetration Testing (network, web application, Data Centre, Mobile App), ISMS Audit, Privacy audit, GDPR Gap Assessment, ITGC process audit, Risk Assessment & Mitigation, ISO27001 implementation, Information security training. He is a regional committee member at Nasscom, IT subcommittee member at CII, Committee Member ISACA Kolkata Chapter, Life Member PRSI (Kolkata Chapter). He is associated with West Bengal Govt – Cyber Security “Center of excellence”.

Key takeaways from the program:

1.  Understanding  processes and practices designed to protect networks, devices, programs and data.
2. How cyber audits impact effectiveness of organizations.
3. Importance of information security health check

Mr. Gunanand Jha, Programmer, KSOM was the SPOC on behalf of CAAS for the Cybersecurity Programme.