India Security Summit 2025
Day 1
Registration, Networking and High Tea
IDC Welcome Address
Jyoti Lalchandani
Head of WW Events & MD – META, Central Asia, India, IDC
IDC Keynote: Evolving Threats, Advanced Defenses: Cybersecurity in the Next Era
As technology accelerates and digital transformation deepens across sectors, the cybersecurity landscape is undergoing a radical shift. Traditional threat models are being outpaced by sophisticated adversaries leveraging AI, quantum computing, and complex social engineering tactics. In this session, we explore the next era of cyber threats.
Vasant Rao | IDC
Managing Director, India & South Asia
Vasant Rao
Vasant Rao leads IDC’s business in India and South Asia in the capacity of managing director, IDC India. With over 23 years of experience, Vasant is a management professional with a proven track record of building profitable businesses. He is passionate about incubating ideas, applying analytics to business, and delivering value to customers and employees.
Prior to joining IDC, he held multiple global leadership roles during his 10-year stint at Cognizant in the analytics, data science, and visualization domains and built award-winning IP-based products. Most recently, Vasant was leading the banking and financial services delivery for the North America AI & Analytics business unit. Prior to Cognizant, he had built and later sold his startup business to a technology services company in India. He has spoken in several industry conferences on the application and ethical implications of data sciences and artificial intelligence (AI) in business. He has also published whitepapers on model risk and digital transformation (DX) opportunities for the private equity industry.
Vasant has a Master of Science in finance from London Business School, an MBA from Mumbai University, and holds the CFA charter from CFA Institute, USA.
Event Sessions
Friday, August 29 2025 6:35 pm | Location:
IDC Keynote: Evolving Threats, Advanced Defenses: Cybersecurity in the Next Era
As technology accelerates and digital transformation deepens across sectors, the cybersecurity landscape is undergoing a radical shift. Traditional threat models are being outpaced by sophisticated adversaries leveraging AI, quantum computing, and complex social engineering tactics. In this session, we explore the next era of cyber threats.
Strategic Security in Motion: Navigating AI, Quantum, and Compliance at Speed
As AI accelerates threat evolution and quantum computing challenges legacy defenses, security strategies must evolve in parallel. Join us to explore how enterprises are embedding security into the core of digital transformation—through continuous compliance, agile governance, and quantum-aware infrastructure planning.
Sakshi Grover
Senior Research Manager, Cybersecurity Services, IDC Asia/Pacific
Building a Cyber Resilient Business with a Unified Security Approach
In an increasingly complex threat environment, fragmented security strategies are no longer sufficient. Today’s enterprises require a unified approach—integrating threat detection, incident response, identity management, and compliance under a single, cohesive framework. This session explores how businesses can build end-to-end cyber resilience by breaking down silos across IT, security, and governance, leveraging intelligent automation, and aligning cyber defense with broader business continuity goals. Learn how leading organizations are embedding security into the DNA of their operations to safeguard trust, agility, and long-term growth.
Cocktail Dinner & Networking
Day 2
Registration & Networking
IDC Keynote: Cybersecurity Transformed: Building Digital Resilience for the Quantum-AI Era
As AI-driven attacks grow in precision and the dawn of quantum computing looms, organizations must rethink how resilience is architected. This session explores how organisations are responding with intelligent detection, quantum-resilient encryption, and forward-leaning strategies that combine technology and governance to outpace tomorrow’s threats.
Cyber Strategy in a Multi-Vector Threat Environment
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Today’s threat landscape is more dynamic and unpredictable than ever before. Organizations are no longer contending with isolated incidents—they face a complex web of multi-vector attacks that span ransomware, phishing, insider threats, supply chain vulnerabilities, AI-generated deception, and potential quantum disruption. These threats do not occur in silos—they converge, evolve rapidly, and exploit gaps in fragmented security postures. This session presents a comprehensive view of how organizations can craft a future-ready cyber strategy that accounts for this growing complexity. It will explore the foundational elements of an integrated security approach—combining real-time threat intelligence, cross-domain visibility, zero trust principles, and automation-led response frameworks. |
Balancing Innovation and Integrity in the Age of AI and Quantum
This session explores the critical balance organizations must strike between embracing innovation and upholding trust, security, and digital integrity. As enterprises pursue digital acceleration, they must ensure that their security strategies evolve in tandem—building resilience into AI-driven systems and future-proofing their architectures for a post-quantum world.
Sharath Srinivasamurthy
Associate Vice President, Research, IDC India
Aligning Cyber Investments with Business Risk and Regulatory Demands
As cybersecurity budgets continue to rise -CISOs and business leaders are under increasing pressure to ensure that every dollar spent delivers measurable value. Today, cybersecurity strategy must be directly aligned with business risk, operational priorities, and evolving regulatory frameworks.
This session will explore how organizations can build smarter, risk-aware investment strategies that go beyond compliance checklists to drive real business resilience.
Modernizing Cyber Governance in a Multi-Vector Risk Environment
The cybersecurity landscape has evolved into a multi-vector battlefield, where threats are not only more frequent but also more sophisticated, adaptive, and interconnected. From AI-generated social engineering to supply chain compromise and regulatory non-compliance, organizations face a constant barrage of risks that can impact operations, brand reputation, and regulatory standing.
This session will explore how to elevate cyber governance from a control mechanism to a strategic enabler of enterprise-wide security and trust.
Rajiv Ranjan
Associate Research Director, IDC India
Network Security Best Practices
This session will showcase how applications and hardware platforms work together to strengthen security for users, applications, and networks while ensuring seamless connectivity.
Tea / Coffee & Networking Break
Platinum Partner Sessions (Parallel Sessions)
Platinum Track A
12:05 > Driving Security at Scale in High-Growth Digital Economies
12:15 > Integrating AI and Automation into Core Cyber Defense Operations
12:25 > Building Future-Ready Security Teams and Architectures
12:35 > Securing Innovation: Balancing Agility with Control in the Age of AI
Platinum Track B
12:05 > Strengthening Cyber Resilience Through Unified Risk Management
12:15 > Embedding Trust and Integrity into Emerging Technology Deployments
12:25 > Securing Innovation: Balancing Agility with Control in the Age of AI
12:35 > Reframing Cybersecurity Strategy for a Quantum and AI-Driven Future
Rhythms in Motion: Turning Momentum into Melody
Gold Partner Tracks (Parallel Sessions)
Gold Track A
12:55 > Transforming Security Investments into Intelligent Defense Capabilities
13:05 > Operationalizing Strategic Resilience: Turning Cyber Risk into Competitive Advantage
13:15 > Navigating Fragmented Regulations and Accelerated Spend
13:25 > Operationalizing Cyber Strategy in Fragmented Regulatory Environments
Gold Track B
12:55 > Governing Complexity: Modern Security Policy in a Multi-Technology Landscape
13:05 > OperationalizingStrategic Foresight for Cybersecurity: Adapting to the AI–Quantum Convergence
13:15 > Redesigning Trust in the Digital Enterprise with Continuous Compliance Models
13:25 > Aligning Technology Leadership Around Future Ready Cyber Frameworks
Gold Track C
12:55 > Converging Tech, Diverging Threats: Building Security That Scales with Innovation
13:05 > Building Defenses for the Next Digital Leap
13:15 > Unlocking Enterprise Value Through Intelligent Security Investments
13:25 > Leading Enterprise Security in the Era of Intelligent Threats Leading Enterprise Security in the Era of Intelligent Threats
Gold Track D
12:55 > Cyber Resilience as a Boardroom Metric: Defining Success in the Next Security Era
13:05 > Evolving from Threat Response to Predictive Defense
13:15 > Strengthening Cyber Foundations for Regulatory and Market Agility
13:25 > Advancing Security Posture Through Real Time Risk Visibility