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Date: June 22, 2026
Event: Black Hat India 2026
Format: Podcast (~32 minutes)
Guests: Vandana Verma Sehgal, Shubham Mittal, Sudhanshu Chauhan, Anant Shrivastava
Overview
Launch episode for Black Hat India’s first-ever edition. Members of the Briefings Review Board — Vandana Verma Sehgal, Shubham Mittal, Sudhanshu Chauhan, and Anant Shrivastava — discuss what this milestone means for the Indian security community and the global InfoSec stage, and what it takes to bring world-class security research out of India.
Key Topics
- What Black Hat India is and why it matters
- The state of security research in India — where it thrives and where the gaps are
- Why OT, hardware, and IoT research needs more investment and access
- Tracks the Review Board is most excited to see — from fraud and FinTech to internet scanning and cloud security
- Why critical infrastructure like UPI and India’s payments ecosystem will shape the conversation
- What the Review Board is looking for in an outstanding Briefings proposal
- A direct message to researchers across India who think their work isn’t ready for a stage like this