• CEOs
  • CTOs
  • CSOs/CISOs
  • Regulators
  • Law Enforcement Agencies
  • Researchers

Akkaiah Janagaraj

Global Head of Cybersecurity  Practice

Ashok Kumar Jeyachandran

Founder

Balakrishnan Kanniah

Chief Information Officer

Chethan S. Iyengar

VP - Data Protection - Cyber Security

Debasish Das

CISO

Diptesh Saha

CISO & Practice Head -Cyber Security

Dr. Anshu Premchand

VP - Cloud & Digital Services, Technology

Gowdhaman Jothilingam

Global CISO, Head of Information Technology

Kannan Srinivasan

Head - Cybersecurity and Data Privacy

Karthikeyan K

Product Security Leader

Lalit Gupta

Group Head of IT GRC & Cybersecurity

Manickam Kanniah

Sr.Director - Cyber Security

Sarita Padmini

Senior Director – Cyber Security & Data Privacy

Senthil Subramaniam ESR

Global CISO

Srinivasan B

VP - National Head of Information Security, Audit and Compliance

Subramanian Vaithi

Head of Enterprise Risk Management

Vimalaasree Anandhan

Cybersecurity Leader (India)
  1. Healthcare Cyber Security
  2. Supply Chain Integrity
  3. Securing Cloud Infrastructure
  4. The Human Element in Cyber Security

Opportunities to meet and build relationships with critical cyber security stakeholders.

AVAR 2025’s CISO Awards recognized impactful cybersecurity leaders who have transformed the real-word effectiveness of enterprise cyber defenses in their organizations.

Nominate exceptional CISOs from India for the Best CISO Award in 5 categories.

Abhishek Singh

InceptionCyber.ai

Aleksandr Badaev

Positive Technologies

Amey Gat

Fortinet

Arun Kumar

K7 Computing

Bui Huy Anh

 CMC Cyber Security

Chetan Raghuprasad

Cisco

Dhanush

K7 Computing

Ivan Vanja Svajcer

Cisco

Jagadeesh Chandraiah

Sophos labs

Jaromir Horejsi

Trend Micro

Jose Luis Sanchez

VirusTotal – Google

Kalpesh Mantri

InceptionCyber.ai

Kirill Bondarenko

Axidian

Kseniia Naumova

Positive Technologies

Lomada Suresh Reddy

K7 Computing

Lovely Jovellee Lyn B Antonio

G-Data

Martin Jirkal

ESET

Marvin Castillo

G-Data

Nguyen Tien Cong

CMC Cyber Security

Nitin Shekokar

Symantec – BROADCOM

Omri Misgav

Independent Security Researcher

Peter Stelzhammer

AV-Comparatives

Pradeep Sekar

Optiv Security Inc.

Prakash Galande

Symantec – BROADCOM

Reegun Richard Jayapaul

Trustwave

Roman Šíma

ESET

Romanus Raymond Prabhu

Zoho Corporation (Manage Engine)

Uma Madasamy

K7 Computing

Vikas Karunakaran

Sectrio

Vlad Constnatin Craciun

Bitdefender

Vladimir Nestor

Solar

We invite you and your team to submit research abstracts and share your threat research with the
international cyber security community at AVAR 2025.

Last date for submission: 2 August 2025

  • Cyber AI: Heft vs Hype
  • EDR/XDR Bypass and Resilience
  • Being King of the Kernel on Windows
  • Supply Chain Compromise
  • Forensic Investigation, Cyber Offence, and Prosecution
  • Cyberwarfare Involving State and Non-state Actors
  • ATT&CKing Threat Actors via Threat Intelligence
  • Exploiting Vulnerabilities Across the Ecosystem
  • Shape Shifting TTPs of APTs
  • ICS/OT Infrastructure in Danger
  • Emerging Mac Malware
  • Insecure Boot: Abusing UEFI

The above topics are illustrative and not exhaustive. AVAR welcomes all recent threat research
contributions that benefit the cyber security community.

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