HARIN FERNANDO
Cabinet Minister of Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure

The third summit explored security architecture, cybercrime law, mobility, and practical organisational defence.
yberattacks and cybercrimes hit at businesses across the world and no one sees an end to it. Therefore, cyber security becomes a day-to-day topic in the present context of countries, public institutions, business community, charity works and even in the black market.
It is obvious that there is no one-time solution to this horrendous threat. Being alive, attentive and reactive are a must. The only way forward is that not only IT professionals but also the managements and non-IT staff are well aware of present challenges, possible solutions and more importantly best practices against possible attacks.
In 2013 CICRA and Daily FT launched Cyber Security Summit to increase public awareness thus helping to strengthen the IT security domain in Sri Lanka and the region.
EC-Council – International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council), USA – is the world’s largest vendor neutral cyber security education provider and host of Global Cyberlympics – Olympic styled annual international hacking competition that promotes world peace and online child safety through ethical hacking.
The EC-Council is the owner and developer of the world famous Certified Ethical Hacker course (C|EH), Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator program (C|HFI), License Penetration Tester (L|PT) program and various other programs offered worldwide.
These certifications are recognized worldwide and have received endorsements from various governments including the US Federal Government via the Montgomery GI Bill. Most recently, EC-Council has been approved and listed as a National Recognized Vendor by the Bureau of Proprietary School Supervision (BPSS), and also been certified to have attained the NSA/CNSS 4011 training standard, a requirement for Infuse professionals working for the US Federal Government.
The Pentagon in US has also selected the EC Council as their training partner for Cyber Security.
With tremendous success in 2013 and 2014, we are now ready to extend the discussion to a new height at the Cyber Security Summit 2015.
Similar to the past two years, the 2015 edition will have three events, the Leadership Forum for CEOs and CIOs of the Corporates (on invitation only), Day Conference and the Night Hack – an informative evening with live demonstrations.
The Day Conference and the Night Hack will be held on 29th September 2015 at Cinnamon Lakeside, Colombo.
Cabinet Minister of Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure
ITU Regional Office Asia-Pacific, Senior Advisor
Chief Security Officer and Adviser for Microsoft in Asia
Security
Master Trainer, CICRA Consultancies (Pvt) Ltd and CEO – Akati Consulting, Malaysia
Managing Director/CEO, ICTA
Commercial India & SAARC CISCO, Security Lead
The original page also retained speaker profiles repeated on other edition pages. They are preserved below as source content; their presence does not independently confirm participation in this edition.
2015 · Guest of HonourWWV, RWP, RSP, USP, psc, Commander of Army
Sri Lanka ArmyDr. Bowne is the proprietor of Bowne Consulting and an instructor at City College San Francisco, USA. Since 2007, he had been a frequent speaker at Defcon, world's largest annual hacker conference held in Las Vegas, USA, where he has been honoured with Black Badge. He is also a speaker at several other top security conferences such as HOPE, RSA BsideLV and BsideSF. He has been teaching hacking and security classes for more than 10 years all around the world.
2015 · Keynote SpeakersFounder
InfoSec Decoded, Inc. - Defcon (USA & China) SpeakerDr. Bowne is the proprietor of Bowne Consulting and an instructor at City College San Francisco, USA. Since 2007, he had been a frequent speaker at Defcon, world's largest annual hacker conference held in Las Vegas, USA, where he has been honoured with Black Badge. He is also a speaker at several other top security conferences such as HOPE, RSA BsideLV and BsideSF. He has been teaching hacking and security classes for more than 10 years all around the world.
2015 · Keynote SpeakersHead of Risk for India and South Asia
VisaSuralia is responsible for championing security in the industry and maintaining the integrity of the payments ecosystem for Visa. This complex and fast evolving ecosystem includes issuing and acquiring clients, merchants, cardholders, and service providers such as processors, device manufacturers, and payment gateways. Earlier, Vipin was founder Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for Paytm Payments Bank. Vipin was head of Products at National Payments Corporation of India before and has also worked with Reserve Bank of India, IBM and HSBC
2015 · Keynote SpeakersPublic Policy Manager
FacebookAcharya works on privacy, cyber security, encryption, and emerging technologies at Facebook. Prior to joining Facebook, he was a Program Fellow at New America’s Open Technology Institute in Washington DC where he worked on transatlantic encryption regulation. Earlier, he was the Law and Policy Advisor for the Centre for Internet and Society in Bangalore where he led a multi-stakeholder project on future Indian privacy law
2015 · Keynote SpeakersTechnical Solutions Architect, Cyber Security
CiscoAli specializes in strategic projects involving cyber security solutions such as SOC for Enterprise, Managed Security Service Providers and IT Services Providers. He works with Big-4s and other consulting firms to influence and enable them on Cisco Security solutions. Earlier, he has worked with Tata Communications and Sify Technologies, leading engineering functions for their MSSP, Cloud and ISP engineering functions
2015 · Guest SpeakersSenior Deputy Governor
Central Bank Sri LankaDr. Weerasinghe is also the Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee and the Foreign Reserve Management Committee of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. He currently functions as Senior Deputy Governor supervising the Departments of Economic Research, Statistics, International Operations, Domestic Operations, Macroprudential Surveillance, Exchange Control, Currency and Communications. Prior to his appointment, he was the Alternate Executive Director for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan. Dr. Weerasinghe has a Ph.D and Master’s Degree in Economics from the Australian National University and a B.Sc. Degree from the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka.
2015 · Guest SpeakersManaging Director
Cellebrite APACPrior to joining Cellebrite, Arthur held several leadership positions at Qognify, NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE), Starhome Mach, Comverse (NASDAQ: CMVT) and other international companies. He brings over 20 years of executive leadership experience in Security and Telecom markets in the APAC region.
2015 · Guest SpeakersDirector
Kela GroupWith a focus on technology evangelising and new market penetration, Tong is an expert in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for cyber security since 2010. Earlier, he served in the telecom and IT network infrastructure fields for over a decade.
2015 · Guest SpeakersChief Executive Officer
UDC Pte LtdWith a focus on technology evangelising and new market penetration, Tong is an expert in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for cyber security since 2010. Earlier, he served in the telecom and IT network infrastructure fields for over a decade.