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Anwesha Sen

Anwesha Sen

@anwesha25

  • Joined Jul 2021

Navigating the CERT-In directions for business operations.

Recommendations on compliance timelines for SMEs and additional suggestions for improving ease of compliance

On 28 April 2022, CERT-In released directions for cybersecurity incident reporting. With the compliance deadline of 28 June fast approaching, industry bodies shared their concerns with CERT-In and MoS Rajeev Chandrashekhar on 10 June 2022. more
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  • 18 Jun 2022

Amendments to the IT Rules 2022

IT Rules Amendments - History, Concerns, and Recommendations

On June 6, 2022, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) released the draft amendments to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules, 2021) for public feedback. Privacy Mode organized a stakeholder meeting with representatives from SSMIs and industry bodies on July 1, 2022 to discuss key concerns regarding the dr… more
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  • 22 Jul 2022

Role of OSS and new-gen tech in digital decision-making in fintech

Role of OSS and New-Gen Tech in Digital Decision-Making in Fintech

Nearly all major decision making tools that are currently used in business process automation and management are still proprietary and are offered from well established players. Lately, there is a new generation of companies in Fintech who place a lot more emphasis on exploring if open source technologies can take over this well established area where enterprise players are playing. more
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  • 03 Aug 2022

Data Governance and semantics

Human Colossus Foundation: Dynamic Data Economy

Dynamic Data Economy v1.0 The Human Colossus Foundation recently announced the release of its Dynamic Data Economy (DDE) v1.0 architecture, which includes the Principles and a Trust Infrastructure Stack as well as a rollout plan for a related suite of components: more
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  • 16 Aug 2022

Impact of India's Telecom Bill on startups, innovation and consumers

Report: Impact of India's Telecom Bill on Startups, Innovation and Consumers

The Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022 was released by the Department of Telecommunications in September 2022 for public feedback. The Bill is likely to have a significant impact on businesses and consumers if adopted in its current form, and to discuss these concerns, Rootconf organized a series of discussions. On 30th June 2023, stakeholders and civil society representatives came togethe… more
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  • 08 Aug 2023

Data Privacy Conference

Summary of session: Birds of Feather (BOF) discussion on investors' views of privacy and security; proactive measures and compliance for existing and future investees

Date of event: April 24, 2021 Moderators: Subhashish Bhadra (ONI), Anand V (Hasgeek) Discussants: Sharda Balaji (Novo Juris), Samuel Mani (Mani Chengappa Mathur), KK Mookhey (NII Consulting), Kailash Nadh (Zerodha) more
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  • 18 Oct 2021

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Best Practices Guide: GDPR Compliance at Intuit

Name of Organization: Intuit Domain: Financial Software Company more
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  • 31 Jan 2022

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Best Practices Guide: Masking Sensitive Data in Logs with Logstash

Name of Organization: Appsecco Domain: Computer & Network Security Company more
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  • 01 Feb 2022

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Best Practices Guide: AWS Security Best Practice

Name of Organization: AWS Domain: IT Service Management Company more
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  • 04 Feb 2022

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Best Practices Guide: Data Governance Strategies

Organization: A Software Company Talk by Atif Akhtar more
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  • 10 Feb 2022

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Best Practices Guide: Lean Data Practices

Name of Organization: Mozilla Domain: Free Software Community more
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  • 16 Feb 2022

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Best Practices Guide: GDPR Compliance at Zeotap

Name of Organization: Zeotap Domain: Customer Data Platform more
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  • 21 Feb 2022

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Best Practices Guide: Unstructured Data and Agile Processes for Implementing Privacy Controls

Organization Domain: Aviation Holding Company Talk by Toufiq Ali more
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  • 26 Feb 2022

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Best Practices Guide: Implementing Privacy by Design

Organizations: Aviation Holding Company, Privacy Management Platform, Cybersecurity Company more
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  • 26 Feb 2022

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Best Practices Guide: Data Governance 101

Name of Organization: LinkedIn Domain: Social Networking Platform more
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  • 27 Feb 2022

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Best Practices Guide: User Data Anonymization and Deletion at LinkedIn

Name of Organization: LinkedIn Domain: Social/Networking/Platform more
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  • 18 Jan 2022

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Best Practices Guide: Guardrails for the Data Economy

Name of Organization: Borneo Domain: Data Security Company more
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  • 28 Apr 2022

Navigating the CERT-In directions for business operations.

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Report on Panel Discussion: Navigating the CERT-In Directives for Business Operations

Rootconf and Privacy Mode recommend that stakeholders who are impacted by the CERT-In 2022 directions should directly engage CERT-In in public consultation, and rally for more transparent consultative processes in the future. more
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  • 23 May 2022

Data Privacy Conference

How to handle data deletion requests under privacy laws

On 28 April, the Data Privacy Product and Engineering Conference held a Birds of Feather (BOF) session about handling data deletion requests from users under privacy laws, and how Indian companies service this request. The session was moderated by Venkata Pingali, co-founder at Scribble Data. Sreenath Kamath of Hotstar and Sheik Idris of Zeta participated in this session. more
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  • 30 May 2022

Detecting anomalous network patterns

Checklist for Network Security Monitoring (NSM) for On-premise, Data Centers and Cloud set-ups

This checklist was developed from the Birds of Feather (BOF) session on Tooling for NSM held on 15 June 2021 under the Anomalous Network Detection Patterns programme. Swapneel Patnekar - Founder at Sreshta IT - and Rashid Feroz - Security Engineer at CRED - shared their experiences and learnings. Anand Venkatnarayan, cybersecurity expert and editor of Privacy Mode and Rootconf progammes moderated… more
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  • 30 May 2022

Privacy Best Practices Guide

Best Practices Guide: Compliance Process for Change Management in Fintechs

Summary This guide is based on a conversation among members of the Rootconf community about the compliance process for change management in Fintech companies that had done one VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment & Penetration Testing) for security validation assessment pre launch. more
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  • 30 May 2022

Data Governance Meetups

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How Zeotap became GDPR compliant

Sathish KS talks about how Zeotap complied with GDPR regulations in this session. Zeotap is a fully privacy compliant customer data platform that created a product to comply with these regulations. This was achieved by listing down all regulation requirements into product requirements, from which the product was built. more
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  • 06 Jun 2022
Session type:: Full talk - 40 mins

Data Governance Meetups

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Birds of Feather (BOF) session: Implementing Privacy by Design - practical challenges and concerns

Toufiq Ali, Sameer Anja, Devangana Khokkar, and Satiya Prasath talk about common privacy challenges while using COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) solutions. These challenges can be solved by carrying out data privacy impact assessments which involves cataloging all the data that will be exchanged with new partners and vendors, deciding upon and revising technical controls, and data minimization and… more
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  • 06 Jun 2022
Session type:: Topic for Birds of Feather (BOF) session - 1 hour

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Summary: Doing Data Security for Fintech - Challenges at Scale

The panel discussion consisted of three speakers - Ashwath Kumar, Staff Security Engineer at Razorpay; AVS Prabhakar, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Zeta; and Ankur Bhargava, Head of Product Security at PhonePe. The moderator leading the panel was K.K Mookhey, the founder of Network Intelligence. more
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  • 08 Jun 2022

Privacy Best Practices Guide

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Summary: Implementing Privacy By Design

The participants on this panel discussion were: Kailash Nadh - CTO at Zerodha more
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  • 13 Jul 2022

Impact of (draft) Telecom Bill on consumers and businesses

Report: Impact of (draft) Telecom Bill on Consumers and Businesses

The Draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022 was released by the Department of Telecommunications in September 2022 for public feedback. The Bill is likely to have a significant impact on businesses and consumers if adopted in its current form, and to discuss these concerns, Rootconf organized a series of discussions. On 21st July 2023, stakeholders and civil society representatives came togethe… more
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  • 16 Aug 2023

Signal in Bangalore

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Signal's Sustainability in an Environment of Mass Surveillance

On 3rd October 2023, a public event was hosted in collaboration with the Signal Foundation, The Fifth Elephant and Bangalore International Centre (BIC). The event consisted of two sessions. The following is a summary for the first session, which was a talk by Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal Foundation, moderated by Kiran Jonnalagadda, co-founder of Hasgeek. more
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  • 12 Oct 2023

Signal in Bangalore

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AI: Beyond the Hype Cycle

On 3rd October 2023, a public event was hosted in collaboration with the Signal Foundation, The Fifth Elephant and Bangalore International Centre (BIC). The event consisted of two sessions. The following is a summary for the second session, which was a discussion between Meredith Whittaker (President of Signal Foundation), Udbhav Tiwari (Head of Global Product Policy at Mozilla), and Amba Kak (Ex… more
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  • 12 Oct 2023