Exclusive Roundtable: Modern Security Architectures: From Fragmented Tools to Hybrid Mesh Strategies

In today’s hyperconnected world, enterprises face a growing challenge of securing fragmented tools and environments that increase complexity, costs, and risk. Hybrid mesh architectures unify security across users, networks, cloud, and OT environments—enabling consistent policy enforcement and visibility at scale.

According to IDC’s 2025 Asia/Pacific Security Study, 45% of Indian enterprises identified unified visibility across all tools and environments with centralized policy and access management as their top priority in an integrated cybersecurity platform—precisely what hybrid mesh strategies are designed to deliver. To truly realize this vision, enterprises require the right balance of strategic guidance, operational execution, and technology depth to integrate and scale hybrid mesh effectively.

Join us for an exclusive Executive Breakfast Roundtable where we will explore three key areas:

• How the security landscape and buyer priorities are evolving, driving demand for unified, hybrid mesh architectures.
• Why hybrid mesh matters now: simplifying security operations, reducing risks, and supporting enterprise-wide resilience.
• How enterprises can turn the vision of hybrid mesh into practical adoption.

Sakshi Grover

Senior Research Manager, Cybersecurity Services, IDC Asia/Pacific

Faizul Gani Dar

Senior Sales Specialist – Cybersecurity, NTT Data

Jagbir Singh

Manager, Sales Engineering (Pre-Sales), Check Point Software

Registration, Networking & Tea/Coffee

IDC Welcome Address

Ronita Bhattacharjee

Group Vice President, Events, META, India & APAC, IDC

Panel Discussion – Outcome based Security: Balancing Compliance and Budgets

This discussion addresses the challenges organizations face in meeting regulatory compliance requirements while managing budget constraints. Panelists will share insights on prioritizing cybersecurity investments, demonstrating ROI to stakeholders, and ensuring that financial limitations do not compromise security postures.

Srinivasan Balraj

Vice President – National Head of Information Security Audit and Compliance, Muthoot Fincorp Ltd

Nageshwaran Chinnadurai

Group Head of Cyber Security, TVS Group

Amit Ray

CDAIO & Customer Advisory Leader, Reliance Jio

Mrinal Kanti Roy

CISO, Cairn Oil & Gas

Chethan S Iyengar

VP – Data Protection, Cybersecurity Operations (CyOps), Standard Chartered Bank

Vinod Kumar Gupta

Chief Information Security Officer and Data Protection Officer, Paytm Money

Vivek Pathak

Additional General Manager (IT), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL)

Exposure Management in the Realm of AI

Exposure Management is a strategic approach to identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks such as algorithmic bias, data misuse, and lack of transparency. By adopting best practices, companies ensure that their solutions operate ethically, securely, and in line with their objectives, promoting innovation with responsibility and trust.

Q&A (Ask Questions, Rate the Session & Stand a Chance to Win JBL Audio Glasses)

Rajnish Gupta

Managing Director and Country Manager, Tenable India and SAARC

IDC Keynote: Evolving Threats, Advanced Defenses: Cybersecurity in the Next Era

The cybersecurity landscape is entering a new era, defined by rapid technological disruption, shifting global dynamics, and the relentless pace of digital transformation. As threats grow in sophistication and scale, India finds itself at a pivotal point, both as one of the fastest-growing digital economies and as a target in an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment.

India’s growth story offers a unique backdrop. As enterprises expand and modernize, the security agenda is no longer just about defense but about enabling trust, resilience, and business continuity. According to IDC’s recent study, 86% of enterprises in India faced ransomware attacks in the past 12 months, with healthcare, IT/ITeS, manufacturing, and BFSI among the most frequently targeted sectors.

Amidst this evolving attack landscape, security spending patterns are shifting, with organizations prioritizing integrated platforms, AI-driven defenses, and managed services to improve resilience. At the same time, buyers are demanding greater commercial flexibility in an environment that often feels overwhelming, where confusion and ambiguity persist over where best to direct security investments. This is driving increased focus on managed security services, cloud-native application protection (CNAPP), and OT security solutions as top enterprise priorities.

This keynote will examine the rise of AI as both an offensive and defensive force, the implications of global tensions on cyber risk, the ways in which buying behavior is changing, and the innovations at scale that are reshaping enterprise security strategies. In this session, we will look at the intersection of evolving threats, advanced defenses, and the role of AI-led innovation in defining the next era of cybersecurity for India.

Sakshi Grover

Senior Research Manager, Cybersecurity Services, IDC Asia/Pacific

Felicitation of Advisory Council

Tea / Coffee & Networking Break

Start of Session Raffle Putt Your Hands Together – it’s Raffle Time and a Golf Kit’s on the Line!

Panel Discussion – Modernizing the SOC: From Legacy Challenges to AI-Driven Resilience

The cybersecurity landscape is entering a new era, defined by rapid technological disruption, shifting global dynamics, and the relentless pace of digital transformation. As threats grow in sophistication and scale, India finds itself at a pivotal point, both as one of the fastest-growing digital economies and as a target in an increasingly volatile geopolitical environment.

India’s growth story offers a unique backdrop. As enterprises expand and modernize, the security agenda is no longer just about defense but about enabling trust, resilience, and business continuity. According to IDC’s recent study, 86% of enterprises in India faced ransomware attacks in the past 12 months, with healthcare, IT/ITeS, manufacturing, and BFSI among the most frequently targeted sectors.

Amidst this evolving attack landscape, security spending patterns are shifting, with organizations prioritizing integrated platforms, AI-driven defenses, and managed services to improve resilience. At the same time, buyers are demanding greater commercial flexibility in an environment that often feels overwhelming, where confusion and ambiguity persist over where best to direct security investments. This is driving increased focus on managed security services, cloud-native application protection (CNAPP), and OT security solutions as top enterprise priorities.

This keynote will examine the rise of AI as both an offensive and defensive force, the implications of global tensions on cyber risk, the ways in which buying behavior is changing, and the innovations at scale that are reshaping enterprise security strategies. In this session, we will look at the intersection of evolving threats, advanced defenses, and the role of AI-led innovation in defining the next era of cybersecurity for India.

Q&A (Ask Questions, Rate the Session & Stand a Chance to Win JBL Audio Glasses)

Manish Kalra

Country Director, Nopal Cyber

Rakesh Sharma

Global Chief Information Security Officer, Indigo

Agentic AI Meets ASPM in the IDE to Maximize App Quality and Security

As software development accelerates, the ability to manage both application security and quality across the SDLC has never been more critical. Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) provides AppSec leaders with visibility and control over application risks, but achieving meaningful risk reduction requires action earlier in the development lifecycle. That means bringing ASPM insights and guidance directly into developer environments. This session explores how modern approaches are embedding security and quality signals into the IDE, CI/CD pipelines, and code review processes, empowered by agentic AI that delivers real-time, pre-commit, context-aware insights and intelligent remediation paths. By shifting left in a developer-friendly way, organizations can reduce vulnerabilities, eliminate friction between AppSec and engineering teams, and improve code quality without slowing delivery. In this session, Shabir Bhat, will examine how integrating ASPM with developer workflows not only improves risk posture but also drives better engineering outcomes, such as cleaner code, faster triage, and more resilient applications. Attendees will walk away with a practical understanding of how aligning application security with software quality, starting at the source, can accelerate DevSecOps maturity and empower teams to ship secure, reliable software at scale.

Q&A (Ask Questions, Rate the Session & Stand a Chance to Win JBL Audio Glasses)

Shabir Bhat

Regional Director, IMEA, Checkmarx

Transforming Your Data Security Program

Q&A (Ask Questions, Rate the Session & Stand a Chance to Win JBL Audio Glasses)

Tarun Verma

Systems Engineer Manager, A10 Networks India Private Limited

Strengthening Cyber Foundations for Regulatory and Market Agility

Q&A (Ask Questions, Rate the Session & Stand a Chance to Win JBL Audio Glasses)

Panel Discussion – AI Security Playbook: Actionable Insights for CISOs

This panel explores the evolving cyber threat landscape and equips CISOs with actionable strategies to counter today’s most pressing challenges. Key discussions include emerging threats, modernizing incident response, and leveraging cutting-edge technologies like AI to strengthen cybersecurity defenses.

Sanjay Jaiswal

CISO, Nuvama Wealth and Investment Limited

Abhijit Chatterjee

Sr. Director IT & Corp Comm, CISO, TCG Lifesciences

Felicitation of Partners

Lunch

Workshop: Back to the Cyber Future: The Timelapse Loop of Chrononaut CISOs

What if you had to reimagine your security budget in another time: what would rise to the top and what would slip through the cracks? Much like real life, shifting regulations, emerging threats, and board expectations force constant trade-offs between compliance, resilience, and growth. In this interactive workshop, CISOs will face surprise events, compare strategies with peers, and explore what the next era of cybersecurity decision-making might demand. Engage with your peers, challenge assumptions, and learn from collective perspectives to sharpen your own boardroom strategy.

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