Board of Directors

​Keith Prabhu

Founder & Director 

Keith Prabhu is the Founder & CEO, Confidis, India. He has over 20 years of work experience, in the areas of Business Consulting, IT Consulting, Risk Consulting and Controls Assurance. His earlier experience has been with KPMG, Deloitte, HSBC Software, Arthur Andersen and HCL Infosystems. He is also the Founder of Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), Mumbai Chapter and helped creation of other CSA Chapters in India.
He was instrumental in creating the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) and Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) certifications. He also helped in the creation of CSA’s Cloud Control Matrix. He also authored the book “Practical Guide to Cloud Computing”.

L.S. Subramanian

Founder & Director 

L.S. Subramanian is a consultant in cloud computing & IT Services. He is a recognized industry expert and thought leader, has published a number of articles on cloud computing and emerging technologies and is a recognized speaker and trainer on the subject.

His industry experience includes tenures as CTO and adviser to companies, in India, USA & UAE. Also have advised startups in conceptualisation, strategy and marketing.

He is an active participant in various discussions  in the area of cyber security, cloud computing and other emerging technologies. He is a sought after speaker in the topic of cloud computing and cyber security. He has contributed a number of articles to various publication on how government, business, rural and SME sector can benefit from cloud computing in India.

Shomiron Das Gupta

Director 

Shomiron is a highly experienced Intrusion Analyst, and has been building threat detection systems for more than a decade. He founded NETMONASTERY (NM) at the end of 2002, and set out to deliver quality attack detection products and services to its customers. Today NM serves the largest customers in the financial, telecom, media and e-commerce markets, with its geographical reach and presence spanning the globe through its product DNIF.IT

From his early years Shomiron has focussed on NM’s core values and continues to be hands-on with his technology. Over the years he has worked intensively on, DDoS mitigation, Traffic Anomaly, Collaborative Detection Systems, Trace Tools, BigData, Real-time FishBowling, Multi-layer Correlation, Reporting Technologies, Audit Systems, Frameworks, Parallel Processing and Measurable Security.

Dipak Parmar

Director 

Dipak Parmar is a Trade Mark Attorney, a trained Mediator, an Arbitrator for handling Indian and Asian domain name disputes, a Visiting Faculty, an Invited Speaker, a Certified Digital Evidence Analyst and a Techno-Legal Consultant. He has hands-on experience in Intellectual Property Management, Cyber Law and Information Security, Contract Management and Dispute Resolution.

He is specialized in Cyber Law and Information Security, Intellectual Property Management (including International IP registration), Contract Management, Dispute Resolution, including Litigation and Corporate matters. He is a former visiting faculty for Information Technology Law at Mumbai University; for Cyber law and Intellectual Property Law at Asian School of Cyber Laws;and for Business Law at Thakur Institute of Management Studies & Research.