CFP Directory

Ansh Dhingra is a Cybersecurity Professional, Offensive Security Researcher, Educator, and Hardware Security Innovator, currently serving as Lecturer and Cybersecurity Trainer Lead in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Graphic Era Hill University, Bhimtal Campus, Uttarakhand, India. Ansh is persuing M.Tech. in Software Systems with a specialization in Cyber Security from BITS Pilani and is the Founder of Secure Cypher Solutions, focused on cybersecurity research, education, and security innovation. With expertise in Ethical Hacking, Advanced Penetration Testing, Red Team Operations, Active Directory Security, Network Exploitation, Digital Forensics, Hardware Hacking, and Adversary Simulation, he has trained over 8,000 + students and professionals in practical cybersecurity. His industry certifications include CEH v13 (EC-Council), CRTP (Altered Security), and CRTA (Cyberwarfare Labs). His professional engagements include specialized cybersecurity training for the Indian Army (Garhwal Rifles and Kumaon Regiment) and contributions to practical digital forensics initiatives with Ahmedabad Cyber Police, including evaluating projects for forensic investigations. As a security innovator, he has developed offensive security hardware concepts, including INVIACK, a portable hardware security testing toolkit, and Ghost_Wire, a USB-based hardware security research project. And Some Hardware Based Spy Device and actively Contribute to Cybersecurity Industry .He has also contributed to patent-related cybersecurity innovations.His research interests encompass Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), USB/HID Attack Vectors, Hardware Exploitation, Red Teaming, EDR Security, Adversary Emulation, AI-driven Cybersecurity, and emerging offensive security techniques. His work focuses on bridging the gap between offensive security research, hardware-level exploitation, and real-world cyber defence.

Diyar Saadi Ali is a cybersecurity expert specializing in cybercrime investigations, SOC operations, and malware analysis. A certified MITRE ATT&CK Contributor and CVE discoverer, including CVE-2024-25400, CVE-2024-25399, and CVE-2026-20841, Diyar helps organizations defend against evolving digital threats. Diyar has spoken at major international conferences including Black Hat MEA in Saudi Arabia, DeepSec in Vienna, COSAC in Ireland, VulnCon in India, BSides Budapest, BSides Ireland , THCon Party, and the Arab Cyber Security Conference in Egypt. With extensive hands-on experience and a strong focus on analyst enablement, Diyar delivers practical and real-world malware analysis training.

Akshay Jain (aka Mr-Akuma) is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at ThoughtSpot in Bengaluru, where he works on securing an AI-powered analytics platform, and a Synack Red Team member. His research focuses on agentic AI security: he authored CapsuleGuard, an open-source intent-bound memory authorization framework for LLM agents; maintains the LLM Threat Coverage Atlas, an open reference of 537 LLM and agentic AI attack vectors; and published the 8-part series "The Handoff Is the Soft Joint" on multi-agent security, along with papers on multi-agent authorisation side channels and supply-chain attacks via Agent Skills and MCP servers. Earlier, at InMobi and WeSecureApp, he led penetration testing for banks, built SAST tooling and Burp Suite plugins, ran bug bounty programs and did threat modelling at scale. His research and runnable labs are published at mr-akuma.github.io.

Aashish Bharadwaj is Co-Founder at Fencio, where he works on runtime policy enforcement for AI agents. His research covers how guardrails represent policies and agent actions, and why they fail open. He designed the Concepts and Intent Query Language (IQL) policy representation, and led an evaluation of it against general and safety models across six agent-security benchmarks.He comes with a previous work experience of building L3 L4 stateful firewalls using microsegmentation principles from Nutanix.