Conference Schedule
8 February 2025

Here is the schedule for BSides Kerala 2025.
Please be patient as we are still updating the schedule.

Registration

The registration starts at 08:00 in the morning.

Inauguration ceremony

BSides Kerala inaugural ceremony will be hosted in the CXO track.

Manoj Abraham

Welcome Speech
V V Jacob

Senior General Manager, Systems at Malayala Manorama Co. Pvt. Ltd.

Lamp Lighting

Inauguration of Security BSides Kerala

Manoj Abraham

Inaugural Address
Hon'ble Mr. Justice Devan Ramachandran

Judge at High Court of Kerala

Manoj Abraham

Keynote speaker
Manoj Abraham IPS

Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order)

Keynote talk: Cyber security and the evolving ecosystem of Cybercrimes

Felicitation

Vote of Thanks
Abhijith B R

BSides Kerala Organizing Team

Networking session and Tea/Coffee break

Here is the schedule for activities in all tracks for Security BSides Kerala 2025.

Schedule for CXO/Management Track sessions and panel discussions.

Anant Shrivastava

 Chief Researcher and Founder at Cyfinoid Research, Trainer/Reviewer at BlackHat, CFP Reviewer at DEF CON Villages/BSides/Nullcon

Talk: Supply Chain Security: You secured your code dependencies, is that enough?

Panel discussion: AI, the Future of Cyber Security and the Evolution of Cyber Warfare


Colonel. Nidhish Bhatnagar (Retd.)

Founder of Abhayada Consultancy Services, Decorated Indian Army veteran, Ex. Director and Ex Director (SITAICS) at Rashtriya Raksha University.


A Balakrishnan

Executive Director at Geojit Financial Services Ltd.


Manu Zacharia

InfoSec Evangelist with 25+ years of experience, CEO of HackIT Technology and Advisory Services, founder of c0c0n.


Robin Tommy

Executive Director at Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council


[Moderator]
Sunil Varkey

CISO, CTO, Former Wipro Fellow, Writer, Speaker, Mentor and Cyber Evangelist

Panel discussion: Cloud Security in the era of Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Challenges and Threats


Dr. Prince Joseph

Group Chief Information Officer at NesT Group, SFO Technologies


Ram Pratap Singh

Head Of Information Technology at Muthoot Capital Services Ltd


Anil Menon

Chief Information Officer at Lulu group India.


Saiprasad Sivadasan

Senior Vice President - Group Cloud Head at Manappuram


[Moderator]
K. Bhaskar Varma

Co Founder, Chief Business Officer at NxtGen Cloud Technologies Pvt. Ltd.


Lunch break

Panel discussion: DPDP Act and Banking: A new era of personal data protection


Dr. Shiju Rawther

Head of Information Technology at SBI Mutual Fund


Sony A

Chief Information Officer at South Indian Bank


John Varughese

General Manager at Dhanlaxmi Bank


Johnson Jose

Group President and Chief Technology Officer at Federal Bank


[Moderator]
Anant Shrivastava

Chief Researcher and Founder at Cyfinoid Research, Trainer/Reviewer at BlackHat, CFP Reviewer at DEF CON Villages/BSides/Nullcon

Panel discussion: Building, Nurturing, and Retaining Cyber Security talent in the Gen AI Era: Challenges and Opportunities


Ankit Asokan IPS

SP Cyber Operations, Kerala Police


V V Jacob

Senior General Manager, Systems at Malayala Manorama Co. Pvt. Ltd.


Georgie Kurien

Chief Information Security Officer at SecnSure


Vandana Verma

Security relations leader at Snyk, OWASP Board of Directors


[Moderator]
Adarsh Nair

Director and Global Head of Information Security Compliance at UST


Panel discussion: Present, Future Challenges and strategies in enterprise IT Security.


Zacharia Varughese

 Service Owner, Network Security Technologies at a Big 4


Vasudev Menon

 Senior Director Global Information Security, Zafin


Selestin K Thomas

 General Manager Cyber Security at Nissan Digital India LLP


Prasad Paulose

 Head of Information Technology & CISO at Agappe Diagnostics Ltd.


Moderator
Sangeeth K Mohan

 Head IT at Mane (India & Sri Lanka)

Tea/Coffee break

Singaravelu Ambikapathi

 Senior Software Engineer

Talk: The road to developer's hearts

Panel discussion: The SaaS ASM Conundrum, Managing Exposure in a 2025 Financial World


Ajith Balagopal

Vice President Enterprise Services and Cyber Security at Envestnet, Inc.


Biju K

Head of Fraud Risk Management at Federal Bank


Thomas Kurian Ambattu

Head of Security, Technology Regulations and Privacy at Wings2i IT Solutions Private Limited.


Deepu S

Chief Information Security Officer at Muthoot Microfin Ltd.


[Moderator]
Shubham Mittal

 Co-founder and CEO of RedHunt Labs, Review Board Member at BlackHat and Co-founder of Recon Village at DEF CON

End of track

Schedule for Hacker Ground talks, panel discussions and demos.

Panel discussion: Building Resilient Software, The Intersection of Product Security, DevSecOps, and AppSec


Jojy Payyanickal

 CTO at Geojit Financial Services Ltd.


Arun S

 Principal Security Architect at IBM


Manindar Mohan

 Security Architect at Beagle Security


[Moderator]
Vandana Verma

 Security relations leader at Snyk, OWASP Board of Directors

Aastha Aggarwal

 Security Engineer at Flipkart

Talk: Securing the Pulse of Modern Software: Fortifying CI/CD Pipelines


Upasana Raghav

 Security Intern

Rakesh Sharma

Practice Manager at Optiv Security

Talk: Spray and Pray: Mastering Password Spraying on M365

Lunch break and Networking session

Aditi Bhatnagar

Founder of Offgrid Security

Talk: How to Threat Model Your LLM Before It Outsmarts You

Fahad Faisal

Bug Bounty Hunter

Talk: From High School to High Stakes: My Journey as a Full-Time Bug Bounty Hunter

Saroj Shandiliya

 Security Trainee at Flipkart

Talk: Red team automation: Attack surface management (RTA:ASM)


Gundavarapu Sri Sowmya

 Security Intern at Flipkart

Bablu Kumar

 Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst at Fortinet

Talk: Welcome to the Dark Web where Your Data Has Already Checked In


Shreya Talukdar

 Cyber Threat Researcher at Fortinet

Tea/Coffee break

Schedule for BSides Kerala hands-on workshops.

Aadesh Shinde

Threat Researcher at BforeAI

Workshop: Hook, Hack, and TI: Breaking Down Phishing Scams

Akilesh Kumar

Security Researcher at Traboda CyberLabs

Workshop: Breaking and Securing Android Apps


Rajarshi Patra

Security Researcher at Traboda Cyberlabs


Akhil G Varrier

Security Engineer at Traboda Cyberlabs

Lunch break

Veerababu Penugonda (Mr-IoT)

Founder at IoTSRG

Workshop: IoT Bug Discovery: From Vulnerability to Exploit


Mohammed Saqeeb Shariff

Senior Specialist at SISA

Rahul Sunder

Security Engineer at CRED

Workshop: Turbocharge Your Secure Code Reviews with CodeQL


Aneesh Nadh

Security Engineer at CRED

BSides Kerala closing ceremony and prize distribution

Closing Ceremony

BSides Kerala 2025 closing ceremony

TBD

Closing note

Prize distribution

Contests and CTF prize distribution.

See you next year!