Curtains fall on NASSCOM-DSCI IS summit

BANGALORE, INDIA: NASSCOM, the premier trade body of the Indian IT-BPO industry, kicked off NASSCOM-DSCI Information Security Summit 2008 in Hyderabad recently.

The inaugural session was addressed by Som Mittal, president, NASSCOM and Shyamal Ghosh, chairman, DSCI.

The two day event took a holistic view of information security landscape in India and examined various issues related to it. The focus of the event was to discuss emergence of India as an important global outsourcing hub and therefore highlight the need for IT-BPO companies who handle critical, highly confidential data for customers across the globe; to acquire security certifications; comply with government regulations, laws, standard and business practices.

It also focussed on the information security (IS) challenges emerging on the horizon and examined ways in which enterprises and service providers could overcome challenges. The objective of the conference was to establish India’s thought leadership within the information security domain and discuss various measures the country is taking to maintain its position as a trusted sourcing destination. 

The summit was the final leg of a four-pronged information security initiative, launched during 2008. It would also provide a platform to bring together all the key stakeholders — practitioners, businesses, the government, academia, law enforcement, consumers and citizens - involved in the security, privacy and data protection area, to jointly combat information security concerns.