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Nationality
  
Indian

Occupation
  
CEO, Lucideus.


Website
  
Lucideus

Name
  
Saket Modi

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Known for
  
Web Space Security andEthical Hacking

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Saket Modi (ca. 1990/91) is an Indian entrepreneur and an ethical hacker. He is the co-founder and CEO of Lucideus Tech, an online cyber security company that is involved in securing government and enterprise digital setups. He led the team that developed the smartphone privacy app UnHack. He is a frequent technology writer in the Indian media.

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Early life

Saket was born and raised in Kolkata (Calcutta). In the year 2009, he joined the LNM Institute of Information Technology, for engineering as a computer science major. Before starting Lucideus in 2012, Saket initiated his career by giving seminars and workshops on ethical hacking and cyber forensics. His workshops gradually became popular, as a result of which he was invited to over a hundred colleges across the globe. Some of the major Institutions who have hosted his workshops include UIUC, IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Guwahati among others.

Involvement with Government

  • He was a part of Government of India's committee constituted in 2014 for preparation of vocational course for the new sector "Cyber Security" for National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) under Ministry of Human Resource Development's body AICTE.
  • Saket and his team were responsible for the end-to-end security assessment of the BHIM Application developed by the National Payments Corporation of India and launched by the Prime Minister of India, Sri Narendra Modi on the 31st December 2016.
  • Awards and Recognitions

    Saket has been referred to as the "Indian Firewall" in various media publications.

    Under Saket's leadership, Lucideus has also won several awards - the most prominent being the "Best IT Startup of India" at the National Entrepreneurship Awards 2016 organised by the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India and felicitated by Minister of Home Affairs (India), Sri Rajnath Singh.

    He is a regular speaker on various subjects of information security and entrepreneurship at International Forums like Mobile World Congress, CeBIT (Germany), Forbes Under 30 Global Summit (Boston), Confederation of Indian Industry, Cyber Tech (Israel), ASSOCHAM, Data Security Council of India, ISACA, TiE, TED (conference) etc.

    He has been invited to address the boards and leadership teams of multiple Fortune 500 companies including Citigroup, HSBC, Visa, McKinsey & Company among others.

    References

    Saket Modi Wikipedia


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