Manu Zacharia — CEO
> Information Security evangelist with more than 30 years of professional experience. > External Consultant to Kerala State IT Mission / Computer Emergency Response Team (Kerala) – CERT-K from Feb 2016 to Jul 2016. > Awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional - MVP award consecutively for four years (2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012) in Enterprise Security stream. > Also honored with the prestigious Asia Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements Award for 2010 from (ISC)² under Senior Information Security Professional Category. > Awarded the Nullcon Black Shield Awards for 2014 under the Community Star category for contribution to community in terms of knowledge sharing, administration, communication, proliferation > Recipient of Newsmakers Achievers Awards in IT Sector for the Best Ethical Hacker in 2011 > Founder of c0c0n International Hacking & Information Security Conference and also Information Security Day Initiatives. > Co-Founder – Ground Zero – Asia’s Foremost Information Security Conference. > Creator & Chief Architect of Matriux - Security & Penetration Testing Operating System > Associated with ITU (International Telecommunication Union - the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies) as an expert on Cyber Security. > Associated with The Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB), a not-for-profit society based in British Columbia, Canada as a Subject Matter Expert > Enlisted with Prometric as their Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Cyber Security > Associated with the Signal School, Centre for Defense Communication & Electronic Warfare - premier professional training institution of the Indian Navy in Communications and Information Warfare. > Speaker @ various International and national security and technology conferences including > Cyber Security Summit 2012, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, > Speaker at the 7th Kuwait Info Security Forum > ITU - Sub-Regional Forum on CyberSecurity and the fight against Cyber Criminality and Cyber Terrorism - Younde, Cameroon (2015) > Forum on Advanced Social Media Investigations hosted by Vancouver Police (Canada) and POLCYB > Qualys Security Conference 2011 > Microsoft Tech-Ed > ClubHack > Enterprise Information Security, Singapore > Bangalore Cyber Security Summit > Security Conference- Bangalore 2010 > Microsoft Virtual Techdays > Nullcon 2011, 2017 > Associated with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Gujarat Technical University and SCIT as a Guest Faculty. > President of Information Security Research Association (ISRA).
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cyber Security expert with extensive experience in enterprise security and community engagement.
Experience: 6 yrs 6 mos
Career Highlights
- Over 30 years in Information Security.
- Four-time Microsoft MVP in Enterprise Security.
- Founder of major Information Security conferences.
Work Experience
Millennium IT Consultants Pvt Ltd
Director - Information Security (1 yr 2 mos)
Millennium IT Consultants
System & Network Manager (2 yrs 4 mos)
Millennium IT
System & Network Administrator (3 yrs 1 mo)
Education
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology - SMU
Bachelor of Computer Application at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology - SMU