BANKING SECURITY 2005 scheduled on June 22, 2005 at the Hilton Towers, Mumbai was India's premier Banking Security event, which attracted industry's leading figures and firms.

The exclusive conference brought together all the facets of banking security for frank and meaningful discussions, learning & strategizing to ensure the industry's collective security future.

Some of the event highlights were:

• Mr. S C Basu, Chairman & Managing Director - Bank of Maharashtra; Deputy Chairman - Indian Banks' Association was the Presiding Host; Mr. V. Leeladhar, Deputy Governor - Reserve Bank of India was the Chief Guest and Mr. Rajiv Vaishnav, Regional Director - NASSCOM was Master of Ceremonies
• Keynote Session by Mr. A N Roy, Commissioner of Police - Greater Mumbai
• Interactive and Educative sessions on IT Security, Anti Money Laundering, Financial Crime & Fraud
• Key Speakers presenting were: Dirk Mohrmann, President - WorldCompliance; Matthew Syme, Product Marketing Manager - Nortel Security Solutions; Neeraj Dotel, Industry Manager (Financial Services) - Microsoft India; Sujan Pandit, Program Manager - CIANT; Vineet Mittal, Practice Head (Enterprise Web Services & Identity Management Practice) - Sun Microsystems, India and Vivek Gupta, Security Consultant - IBM Global Services
• Other Industry & Sponsor Speakers were: D V S Prakash, AVP (Product Management) - Financial Software & Systems; G N Nagaraj, Director (Sales) - Onward Novell; Hanuman Tripathi, Managing Director - InfraSoft Technologies; John Hele, Global Product Head - BSI Management Systems and S Shankar Narayanan, Head (Information Security Practice) - 3D Networks
• Locknote Panel Discussion on "Cyber Crime, Security & Compliance: It's issues and the future for the Banking Industry" by Nandkumar Saravade, Director (Cyber Security & Compliance) - NASSCOM; Satish Warrier, Head (Information Security) - IDBI Ltd.; Srivalsan Ponnachath, Director (Financial Services) - Sun Microsystems and Venugopal R Iyengar, Practice Director (eSecurity Competancy and Consulting Services) - TCS