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Shomiron Dasgupta
With his extraordinary skillset as an intrusion analyst and immense passion for tech advancements, he has been building threat detection systems for close to two decades and has established partners in 14 countries across several industries like healthcare, insurance, transport, banking, and media. Prior to founding and developing DNIF, a product that delivers quality attack detection products and services to its customers, he worked with ICICI Infotech Ltd. as a Senior Consultant, where his core responsibility was to solve critical cybersecurity challenges faced by customers. Shomiron, a TedX speaker, is also an eminent speaker at many industry events including DSCI (Data Security Council of India) and SACON (Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History). He is an alumnus of St. Xavier’s college. Outside the tech world, he is a trained mountaineer with expedition experience in the high Himalayas.

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The Future of Cyberwarfare

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Over the years, we have seen an escalation in the series of hacks on health care services, power grids, nuclear plants and our privacy, with no respite. The threat is not just from China alone. It could be from North Korea or, as a matter of fact, from any state ... Read More
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Ransomware, Phishing and Endpoint Attacks: The Top 3 Cyberthreats

| | cyberthreat, endpoint attacks, Phishing, Ransomware
Cyberthreats have been prevalent on the internet for decades now. Unfortunately, malware has been evolving more rapidly than the anti-malware software needed to combat it. The three most active cyberthreat categories worldwide are currently ransomware, phishing and endpoint attacks. Ransomware Ransomware is malicious software that encrypts data on a target ... Read More
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How to Perform Pentests and Vulnerability Assessments

| | DevSecOps, pentests, Software Testing, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability assessments
Vulnerability assessments (VAs) and penetration tests (often shortened to “pentests”) are effective techniques for identifying and eliminating risks in a software system. In IT security, a vulnerability is a loophole or weak link in a software system. A penetration test is a planned attack on a software system that simulates ... Read More
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Threat Hunting and Its Importance

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Threat hunting isn’t new, but the importance of its practical use in countering cyberthreats is recent. We’ve seen that companies’ awareness of threat hunting is increasing over time. However, a lack of attention given to cyberthreats—whether due to budget, expertise and staffing constraints—has led to an increase in the number ... Read More
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