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HACKERS DAY is an open non profitable community and technology security conference for promoting, demonstrating & spreading awareness regarding the field of Information Security. Hackers Day is a unique organisation, where the best brains in information security and leaders in hacking world and the cyber society along with government officials on cyber security meet to join their efforts offensively or defensively to cooperate in addressing the most assessed topics in the field of Information Security. This organisation seeks to bring together the brightest mind within the information security industry and the digital underground. This conference will showcase cutting edge tools, techniques and methodologies that are at the forefront of the global threat landscape. Hackers Day Community is a platform for security analysts, ethical hackers, professionals, business man and students to present their technical knowledge and to showcase their skills. Hackers Day International Information Security Conference will be a stepping stone for young professionals, information security enthusiasts, hackers, coders, programmers, security and networking professionals, web developers, government officials, law enforcement agencies, business and everyone who love and care about security.

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In today's cyber world internet/cyber security is no more "a good to have" but "a must have". It is the fifth dimension of a nation’s Security. That is the main motive of Hackers Day. The first Hackers Day conference was held on January 13–14, 2017 in Lucknow, India.

Main attendees at HACKERS DAY include security professionals, Government employees, lawyers, researchers, journalists and hackers with interest in cyber security and its global impact on economy.

As an open to all community, Hackers Day organisation also provides Regional Chapters to conduct regular semi-conferences/meets which will spread and aware people about latest security threats, technologies and to share knowledge.

History

Hackers Day was founded in January 2016 by Nitin Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Parth Malhotra and Anurag Srivastava. An Exclusive interview with Nitin Pandey-Founder of Hackers Day.

Venue of Hackers Day 2017

  • Hackers Day International Information Security Conference 2017 was conducted in Amity Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Hackers Day 2018 will be held in New Delhi In January 2018.
  • Event format

    Hackers Day Conference has the following format:

  • Technical briefings: The main content of the submitted CFP.
  • Workshops: Technical workshops related to various Information Security topics such as Web Application Penetration Testing, Malware, Cryptography, VAPT, Wifi Security etc.
  • The Big Talk (panel discussion): A subject for debate by experts, the Big talk in Hackers Day focused on 'National security', where both hackers and representatives of the Indian Government will participate.
  • Capture the Flag Contest: Announced for Hackers Day 2017, 'Capture the Flag' is proposed to be a variant of the popular Capture the Flag contest, where security professionals will try to capture and analyze an unknown vulnerability in a limited time.
  • Announcement of Hackers Day in Digital 4n6 Journal November 2016 issue

    Digital4n6Journal published the details of Hackers Day 2017 conference in its November 2016 issue

    Hackers Day Community has a national team of 19 active members

    Team members are Shubham Gupta, Pulkit Singh, Atul Singh, Shivam Srivastava, Sri Ram, Faisal Shadab Yazdani, Arpit Pandey, Udit Gupta, Ashish Bairwa, Gaurav Dubey, Varun Mishra, Eram Siddiqui, Lakshay Gupta, Shefali Anand & Vanita Agrawal

    References

    Hackers Day Wikipedia