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Inaugration of the CSA Mumbai Chapter

Today we inaugrated the CSA Mumbai Chapter and it was a grand affair, we had all the founder Directors attending the event and  the guest of honor Ms.Charmaine Lewis--Wali from Microsoft.
There was an excellent panel which included Ms.Charmaine (Microsoft) , Mr.Vijay Mukhi ( Cloud Guru) and Mr. Nitin Khanapurkar (KPMG).
Other founders Directors present were Mr. Keith Prabhu (Founder CSA Mumbai Chapter & KPMG) , Mr. Lucius Lobo (Tech Mahindra), Mr. Nilesh Burghate (Cap Gemini),Mr. K.K.Mookhey (NII Consulting),  Mr. L.S.Subramanian (Blogger).
We had a healthy discussion of the Cloud Security Issues pertaining to India while Ms. Charmaine shared with the audience the Microsoft Azure benefits.
It was well attended by a large number of security and technology professionals seeking to understand the cloud better.
All the founder directors were given a chance to contribute and the evening was useful and enlightening to all who attended.
Issues raised by the participants was the role of the CIO in cloud adoption, the future of banking in the cloud, the regulators stand on cloud computing, migrating to the cloud and finally assessing the security in the cloud.
The knowledge of the participants were excellent and the questions pertained on how they could leverage on cloud services in India.
We look forward to more events from CSA Mumbai Chapter and all members promised to contribute to the global efforts in making the Cloud secure.

Comments

  1. deepcloud9:01 PM

    Compliments for the initiative to set up the CSA Mumbai Chapter, and to share the knowledge with many of us.

    Wishing you Chapter all success!

    Pradeep E.Sinnas

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  2. LS Subramanian11:57 PM

    A detailed report on the Cloud Security concerns discussed at this event can be found in the blog of the founder director of CSA Mumbai Chapter Mr. Lucius Lobo.
    http://luciusonsecurity.blogspot.com/

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