Hackers Day

HACKERS DAY is an open souce non profitable community and technology security conference for promoting, demonstrating & spreading awareness regarding the field of Information Security. Hackers Day is a unique event, 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 conference 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. This conference 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.

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 is going to be 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 source community, Hackers Day community 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.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]} An Exclusive interview with Nitin Pandey-Founder of Hackers Day.

Venue of Hackers Day 2017

• Hackers Day 2017 is going to be held in Amity Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Event format

Hackers Day Conference has the following format:

• Technical briefings: The main content of the submitted CFP.^[8]
• 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.^[9]
• 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.

Publications

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^[10]

Team

Hackers Day Community has a national team of 19 active members

Team members are Shubham Gupta, Harsh Bothra, 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^[11]

References

External links

"Official Website".