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Debashish Jyotiprakash is the Managing Director, India and ASEAN for Qualys and is responsible for sales, marketing, channel management and success in the region. Debashish joined Qualys in 2012 and has held various leadership roles at Qualys including Chief Technical Security Officer and managing director for India and Australia & New Zealand. Debashish is a passionate customer advocate. He helps Qualys customers leverage their investment in the Qualys Cloud Platform and its IT, Security and Compliance applications to reduce cyber risk and prepare defenses for emerging cyber threats.

Previously Debashish held head of business and sales leadership roles at leading India-based technology companies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Government College Rourkela, and a master’s degree in Computer Science from Utkal University / Ravenshaw College.

Major Gaurav Arya (Retd) is an Indian Army veteran, writer and public speaker with twenty-nine years of experience including Indian Army, top multi-national companies, media, consulting and public speaking.
Major Arya is the founder of Chanakya Forum, a digital magazine on Geopolitics, National Security and Foreign Affairs. He is the host of the immensely popular conclave The Chanakya Dialogues.
He believes that the teachings of the Indian Army are actually very potent and functional management tools, but need to be accurately interpreted for them to be relevant in the corporate sector. This is what he brings to the table, having worked in the corporate sector for 17 years, before joining media in 2017.
As a public speaker, he speaks at national and international corporate events, and also institutional events. He talks about leadership, motivation, team building, strategic affairs, national security, capability building and more. He has spoken at various TEDx events and in October 2017, he was invited to speak at the UK Parliament on the Kashmir issue.

Himanshu Kathpal is senior director of Product Management at Qualys. He has over 13 years of experience in cybersecurity and product management, with a specialization in vulnerability management, remediation, and next-generation endpoint security. Himanshu is passionate about developing security solutions that align with the company’s cybersecurity product strategy to meet customer needs, reduce the attack surface, and strengthen the organization’s security posture. He holds a master’s degree in engineering from D.Y.Patil University, Pune, as well as an MBA in International Business Management from NMIMS, Mumbai.

As President and CEO, Sumedh leads the company’s vision, strategic direction and implementation. He joined Qualys in 2003 in engineering and grew within the company, taking various leadership roles focused on helping Qualys deliver on its platform vision. From 2014 to 2021, he served as Qualys’ Chief Product Officer, where he oversaw all things product, including engineering, development, product management, cloud operations, DevOps, and customer support. A product fanatic and engineer at heart, he is a driving force behind expanding the platform from Vulnerability Management into broader areas of security and compliance, helping customers consolidate their security stack. This includes the rollout of the game-changing VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) that continually detects and prevents risk to their systems, Multi-Vector EDR, which focuses on protecting endpoints as well as Container Security, Compliance and Web Application Security solutions. Sumedh was also instrumental in the build-up of multiple Qualys sites resulting in a global 24x7 follow-the-sun product team.

Sumedh is a long-time proponent of SaaS and cloud computing. He previously worked at Intacct, a cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system. Sumedh has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from the University of Pune.

Shantanu Bapna is a skilled Cybersecurity Engineer with over 2.5 years of experience at Adani Digital Labs. Specializing in Cloud Security, Container and Kubernetes Security, Web Application Security, and Vulnerability Management, Shantanu has developed and executed comprehensive security strategies to protect digital environments from emerging threats.
He began his cybersecurity journey as an intern at Adani Enterprises Ltd., conducting internal audits based on ISO 27001 and PCI DSS standards. Currently, as an Assistant Manager at Adani Digital Labs, he focuses on application security, infrastructure protection, penetration testing, and incident response. His expertise in securing cloud environments and Kubernetes clusters using CIS Benchmarks ensures a robust security posture across ADL’s infrastructure.
Shantanu’s certifications include:
eJPT – Junior Penetration Tester, INE
Certified Network Security Practitioner, SecOps Group
Qualys Certified Specialist VMDR
Shantanu’s dedication to cybersecurity and his leadership in cloud and application security make him a valuable speaker, offering insights into the rapidly evolving security landscape.

As Senior Vice President of Product Management, Shailesh leads the product management team and drives the Qualys product vision helping customers assess and improve their IT, security and compliance posture. Since joining Qualys in 2012, he has worked in various security and compliance roles driving innovative solutions, including remote endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, and SaaS security. In addition, Shailesh headed engineering, research and product management for Qualys Policy Compliance and File Integrity Monitoring, where he helped customers go beyond compliance to drive their IT GRC objectives. Before Qualys, he focused on security research for Symantec ESM and Compliance solutions. Shailesh holds a master’s in computer applications (MCA) from the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology and has various security certifications including CISA, CRISC, CISM. He is also a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Ashish Bapana leads the Vulnerability Management program at LTIMindtree, bringing over 10 years of experience, with more than 7 years dedicated to cybersecurity. Throughout his career, Ashish has successfully implemented a wide range of cybersecurity technologies and processes, including SIEM, NAC, IPS/IDS, EDR, Vulnerability Management, MDM, Data Classification, and Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM).
Ashish holds key industry certifications:

• CISSP (ISC2)
• ISO27001:2022 Lead Auditor

Pranjal is a Senior Product Manager at Qualys, focusing on Application Security, including Web Application Security, API Security, and Malware Detection Services. With a passion for developing innovative security solutions, he is dedicated to safeguarding applications from both external and internal threats. He brings extensive hands-on experience across the security landscape, having worked with a range of application security technologies and methodologies.

Eran Livne is Senior Director, Endpoint Remediation at Qualys, leading a team tasked with helping customers improve their security posture through cross-platform vulnerability remediation. He has more than 20-years of product management and computer science experience working in diverse IT and security markets. In 2014, Eran founded mobile security company, LetMobile, acquired by Ivanti. Following the acquisition, he drove Ivanti’s enterprise security and endpoint security and management solutions. Eran holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tel Aviv University and an MBA in high-tech business administration from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Kunal is currently VP of Product Management for the CyberSecurity Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM), Web App and API Security product line at Qualys HQ in Foster City, CA. He is Qualys boomerang. He worked at Qualys for 3 years and incubated the XDR product line from inception. Kunal has spent 15+ years working at startups, and big and mid-size companies in cybersecurity, networking, and application security in both product and engineering roles at Juniper Networks, Extreme Networks, Sun Microsystems and Infinera. Prior to re-joining Qualys, Kunal was heading products at Israeli startup in API security and bot management AppSec space.

Jonathan Trull is a longtime security practitioner and CISO & SVP Security Solution Architecture with over 18 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry and is currently the Senior Vice President of Customer Solutions Architecture and Engineering at Qualys. His career has spanned operational CISO and infosec roles with the State of Colorado, Qualys, Optiv, and Microsoft. While at Microsoft, Jonathan led the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) whose mission was to respond to cyber security incidents around the globe ranging from cyber espionage initiated by nation-state actors to ransomware attacks and included the investigation of and response to the NOBELIUM threat actor campaign which leveraged the SolarWinds supply chain. Jonathan also serves as an advisor to several security startups and venture capital firms and supports the broader security community through his work with the Cloud Security Alliance, Center for Internet Security, and IANS. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University where he mentors and coaches those attending the CISO Executive Education Program. Jonathan is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as BlackHat, RSA, and SANS and holds several industry certifications including the CISSP, OSCP, CCSP, and GCFA. Jonathan is a veteran of the U.S. Navy finishing his career as a Lieutenant Commander supporting the Information Warfare Domain.

Abaya is a group manager with Infosys and heads the Information Security Validation Function. Her career expands over two decades in Information Security comprising of vast areas including Vulnerability Management, Compliance Management, Application Security, Secure SDLC, Offensive Security, Security solutions evaluation, process building, evangelization and institutionalization of DevSecOps amongst others. Abaya is passionate about Vulnerability Analytics and its impact in the organization ecosystem, working on building processes and models that can bring about progressive improvements that result in continuous changes to achieve maturity in the system.