Ground Zero Summit 2013 kicks off in New Delhi

In an attempt to generate information security awareness and combat sophisticated threats that the country is facing in cyber security domain, the Information Security Consortium kicked off Ground Zero Summit 2013 at New Delhi.
The inauguration speech by given by Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Advisor to Govt. of India gave the inauguration speech.
The two day conference will take a holistic view of the Information Security landscape in Asia and will examine various issues related to it. It also focuses on the Information Security challenges emerging on the horizon and looks at finding ways in which enterprises, service providers and government can overcome challenges. The vision of the Summit is to guide the development of next generation cyber security policies and technology, to bring about changes in the current process, involve all affected industries and form the largest PPP in this domain.

Ground Zero Summit is a result of collaboration between different security conferences in the country that have joined hands to create a massive platform for cyber security research, technology showcase and policy creation and amendments. Ground Zero Summit in its debut year has emerged as the largest collaborative platform in Asia for this.

Some of the key focus areas at the event included cyber readiness challenges, exploring accuracy and correctness of modern network defence products.

The summit is a result of an industry  government alliance in this domain, and a collaborative effort between the four major cyber security conferences in the region viz. ClubHack, c0c0n, Malcon, nullcon and InfoSec research firm INNEFU. The summit will be executed by UBM India.