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Date: July 2, 2026
Event: Black Hat India 2026
Format: Podcast (~32 minutes)
Host: Swati Aruna (Frost & Sullivan)
Guests: Neelu Tripathy (Senior Security Architect, Adobe), Anant Shrivastava (Founder, Cyfinoid Research)
Overview
Ahead of Black Hat India’s inaugural edition in Bengaluru (October 2026), Swati Aruna sits down with two members of the Briefings Review Board — Neelu Tripathy and Anant Shrivastava — for a candid conversation on AI, India’s evolving cyber landscape, and what the board is looking for in Briefings submissions.
Key Topics
- Where AI genuinely helps defenders (pattern recognition, correlation) versus where it accelerates attackers
- Why inventory remains the industry’s biggest unsolved problem
- How a Black Hat conference on home ground changes who gets to participate, and how India’s scale (UPI, exam servers) produces research that has struggled to land on global stages
- Advice for submitters: lead with the insight, test the submission cold with someone outside the research, and use sample submissions and prep sessions
- Areas the board would love to see more of — hardware security, quantum, and India-scale innovation