Events

About 160 participants from various organizations across India including IT organisations, consulting, SMBs, Manufacturing, Academia, & Startups attended the virtual webinar on IT infrastructure audit organized by CCoE today. The speaker, Mr. GCS Sharma, covered several topics within this domain, including; components in IT Infrastructure, Controls implementation, Industry Standards & Frameworks, Auditing techniques for layers of defence and best practices in IT auditing. The webinar ended with an insightful Q&A session.

Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence along with DSCI and IT department of Government of Telangana conducted a webinar for the employees of the Telangana government. It was conducted on DSCI’s best practices advisory on Work From Home. The best practices were shared by the members of CCOE and others after a welcome note by Rama Vedashree, CEO at Data Security Council of India (DSCI).

A virtual workshop was on the fundamentals of secure coding was organised by the Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence. It was aimed at software developers, software architects, cybersecurity enthusiasts with a coding background, software engineers looking for opportunities in cybersecurity domain as well as at students with sound coding knowledge. It helped participants master the art of building secure code. The entire process of secure coding was elaborated upon during the session whereas the workshop was conducted by Ram Punamara, CEO and Founder of YITSOL.

A virtual meetup was conducted by the Hyderabad Fintech Forum along with CCoE. This meetup highlighted several enlightening conversations on the latest trends in RegTech. The meetup was attended in large numbers and focused on topics like role of AI in digital risk management, ensuring security in the new world and effects if the pandemic on continuing planning assumptions.

This informative workshop was organised over a period of three days; 13th, 17th and 24th April. The trainer of the session was Mr. Ramana Valluri who is renowned for his extensive experience in this domain. This workshop was conducted solely for the project managers. It was initiated to help them identify their competitors, prototype their products, settle on a favourable roadmap as well as map out the lifecycle of their product.

CCoE signed an MoU with CBIT (Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology), Hyderabad, affiliated to the Osmania University, on the 5th of March 2020. This MoU will help foster research, innovation, incubation, marketing, hackathons, corporate innovation & training programs. Established in the year 1979, CBIT is esteemed as the premier engineering institute in the state of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with the objective to facilitate the best engineering and management education to students. It also helps meet the need of skilled and Technically conversant engineers and management professionals. This MoU will help both parties benefit mutually.

The DSCI-CCoE Hyderabad Chapter Meet was based on the theme ‘Zero Trust Architecture’ held at CCoE, Hyderabad. It kicked off with an engaging welcome note addressed by Dr. Sriram Birudavolu, CEO at CCoE, and successfully engaged its attendees on Zero trust design principles with an engaging master class and networking opportunities with industry peers. The meet also introduced attendees to the basics of IPR and hosted an empowering session, which allowed industry experts to share their experiences on implementing Zero Trust Architecture.

The Use Case Clearing House session served as an ideal platform for IT professionals from manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, FinTech and other industries to brainstorm over and identify various cybersecurity use cases. The sessions helped discuss challenges in the domain, develop and explore targeted solutions on the same. The workshop helped IT professionals identify use cases and problem statements, discover problem statements, examine technologies and develop and examine use cases. The session was characterised by a talk on UCCH flow, few startups presenting their journeys, brainstorming sessions etc.

CCoE signed an MOU with Zoho to accomplish its goal of fostering startups. This collaboration will help provide a 24×7 platform access and Zoho suite to startups. The Zoho suite consists of tools crafted for modern teams. Access to these will help startups create, talk, ideate and grow. It is a collaborative work platform integrated across systems to make startups exponentially productive. Zoho is a serious company that creates serious software that helps other businesses solve their business problems.

CCoE signed an MOU with JNTUH at the #launch event of their facility at Hyderabad on the 28th January 2020. This MoU was signed to foster industry-academia collaboration, enable research, develop curriculum, train students & professionals. This MoU helps CCoE and JNTUH mutually benefit to provide better opportunities for students currently enrolled into the university. It also aims to help design a sound curriculum revolving around cybersecurity.

On their launch day, CCoE, Hyderabad signed an MOU with Huntmetrics. The MoU will enable both parties to facilitate market access, research, hackathons and training for startups incubated at CCoE. Huntmetrics is helping startups incubated at CCoE to simplify their enterprise security by protecting their valuable digital assets and by providing actionable business intelligence to enable success.

On its facility launch day, CCoE signed an MoU with IIT Hyderabad. This is set to mutually benefit both the parties involved by fostering the industry-academia collaboration, research, and training. IIT Hyderabad boasts of a unique holistic educational ecosystem that offers interactive learning, a highly, flexible academic structure, cutting-edge research, strong industry collaboration, and entrepreneurship. Together with IIT Hyderabad, CCoE aims to provide an environment that is conducive to learning which features good educational programs revolving around cybersecurity.