Agenda
Discover the sessions, speakers, and key topics shaping today’s IT security landscape in India.
IT Security Summit India 2026
One Day Event
Registration and Networking
IDC Welcome Address
Sakshi Grover
Senior Research Manager, Cybersecurity Products and Services, IDC Asia/Pacific
IDC Keynote: The Strategic Security Spend: Justifying & Optimizing Budget
Indian enterprises are under pressure to show that security spend drives business outcomes. This topic will explore how CISOs/VPs in India build and defend budget, optimise vendor spend, align spend to business value, and show ROI on security and trust programmes.
Sakshi Grover
Senior Research Manager, Cybersecurity Products and Services, IDC Asia/Pacific
Regulation & Resilience: Turning Compliance into Competitive Advantage
How Indian enterprises are aligning with DPDP, CERT-In, and sectoral mandates while driving innovation and operational resilience.
Cross-Border Trust: Navigating Global Threats and Regulatory Diversity
Indian enterprises increasingly operate globally, either via offshore delivery, supply‑chain linkages or cloud services. They must navigate diverse global regulatory regimes, threat vectors, data‑flows and partner ecosystems. This topic explores how Indian organisations build trust frameworks that operate cross‑border, align with global norms, manage regulatory complexity and threats from outside India.
Redefining Security Priorities in the Age of Generative Intelligence
Exploring how generative and agentic AI are reshaping security priorities from detection to data protection to ethics and trust.
Boardroom Security: Speaking the Language of Risk & Value
How security leaders can elevate trust and resilience as boardroom priorities, turning cyber risk into strategic value.
Defending the Digital Core: Sector-Specific Risk Management & Threat Intelligence
Examining how India’s most targeted sectors are advancing critical infrastructure protection, adopting intelligence-led risk management, and building unified cyber resilience.
The Human Factor: Leadership, Culture, and Talent
Building security-first cultures and addressing ASEAN’s talent and skills shortage in cybersecurity.
Tea/Coffee & Networking Break
AI, Automation & Responsible Innovation
How AI is reshaping threat detection and defense and how enterprises can balance innovation with trust and governance.
Parallel Sessions
Platinum Track A
11:15AM – 11:20AM
Start of the Session Raffle
11:20AM – 11:30AM
Cyber Risk Quantification & Financial Impact Modeling
11:30AM – 11:35AM
Q&A (Ask Questions & Stand a Chance to Win a Raffle)
11:35AM – 11:45AM
Human-Centric Security: Combating Social Engineering & Insider Risk
11:45AM – 11:50AM
Q&A (Ask Questions & Stand a Chance to Win a Raffle)
11:50AM – 12:00PM
Incident Response in the Age of AI & Deepfakes
12:00PM – 12:05PM
Q&A (Ask Questions & Stand a Chance to Win a Raffle)
12:05PM – 12:15PM
Designing Future-Ready Security Programs
12:15PM – 12:20PM
Cyber Deception & Active Defense Strategies
Platinum Track B
11:15AM – 11:20AM
Start of the Session Raffle
11:20AM – 11:30AM
Modern SOC Transformation: From Reactive to Predictive
11:30AM – 11:35AM
Q&A (Ask Questions & Stand a Chance to Win a Raffle)
11:35AM – 11:45AM
Cyber Deception & Active Defense Strategies
11:45AM – 11:50AM
Q&A (Ask Questions & Stand a Chance to Win a Raffle)
11:50AM – 12:00PM
Securing Generative AI & Large Language Models
12:00PM – 12:05PM
Q&A (Ask Questions & Stand a Chance to Win a Raffle)
12:05PM – 12:15PM
Edge & 5G Security: Risks at the Network Frontier
12:15PM – 12:20PM
Q&A (Ask Questions & Stand a Chance to Win a Raffle)
12:20PM – 12:50PM
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Preparing for the Quantum Threat
Platinum Track C
11:15AM – 11:20AM
Start of the Session Raffle
11:20AM – 11:30AM
Board-Level Cyber Governance & Accountability
11:30AM – 11:35AM
Q&A (Ask Questions & Stand a Chance to Win a Raffle)
11:35AM – 11:45AM
Cybersecurity & ESG: The Governance Connection
11:45AM – 11:50AM
Q&A (Ask Questions & Stand a Chance to Win a Raffle)
– 11:50AM
12:00 pm
12:00PM – 12:05PM
Q&A (Ask Questions & Stand a Chance to Win a Raffle)
12:05PM – 12:15PM
Building a Security-First Culture Across the Enterprise
12:15PM – 12:20PM
Q&A (Ask Questions & Stand a Chance to Win a Raffle)
12:20PM – 12:50PM