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Asang Dani

Having worked with product development companies like Brocade, Microsoft, Veritas, and Dow Jones, etc., Asang left the U.S. a few years ago to return to India to create a product company of his own. Together with Yashavant Kanetkar, he has developed several products under the aegis of KSET Pvt. Ltd. These products have become immensely successful in the marketplace with clientèle around the world.

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Avinash Kadam

Avinash W. Kadam, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CBCP, PMP, GSEC, GCIH is a leading authority on information security in India as well as globally. He has over 35 years of information technology and information security experience working with highly reputed organizations. Avinash is the recipient of ISACA’s Harold Weiss Award for 2005, “Given to recognize Dedication to the IS Audit, Control and Security Profession”. He is currently serving his second term as Vice President on the International Board of Directors of ISACA. He is the first Indian to be nominated for this prestigious post.

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Chirag L. Unadkat

Chirag serves as the CEO of WESRA India, a Mumbai-based, high-end technology company and as Chairperson of the Department of Advanced Modes of Learning (DAML) at SVKM’s NMIMS University, one of the top management education institutions in India. He is also a co-founder and Vice President of The Foundation of Information Security and Technology (FIST), a body that works closely with various government organizations and law enforcement agencies for the adoption of technology for enhancing the security of the country.

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Ganesh Natarajan

Ganesh Natarajan is one of the most successful and dynamic professionals in the Indian information technology industry and has been leading Zensar Technologies as the CEO for over seven years now, making Zensar one of the most successful IT companies in the India and amongst Fortune Magazine’s Top 10 global offshore outsourcing companies from India. Ganesh has been elected Chairman of the National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM) for 2008-09, and also drives NASSCOM’s vibrant Innovation Forum.

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N.S. Nappinai

Ms. N. S. Nappinai is a legal professional with over 17 years of litigation and transactional expertise. She currently heads the Mumbai-based law firm, NSN & Associates, which she founded in 2001. She commenced practice at the Madras Bar in 1991 with an initial focus on criminal law, IPR, and corporate & commercial laws.

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Prakash Hebalkar

Dr. Prakash Hebalkar is Founder/President of Mumbai-based corporate strategy consulting firm, ProfiTech. Dr. Hebalkar is widely known in India and internationally for the key role he played within the Tata Group (Tata Consultancy Services) in pioneering software exports from India in the mid-1970's and later for developing Tata Burroughs (now known as Tata Infotech) from its inception in 1978 into the nation’s largest software exporter in just five years.

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Santosh Satam

Santosh Satam, CISSP, CISA, CISM, MCSE, NCNE, is an IT professional with over 17 years of experience and multi-disciplinary skills including software quality assurance and control, web application security assessment, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, as well as implementing and managing retail banking applications.

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Vijay Mukhi

Vijay Mukhi is one of the pioneers of the Indian IT Industry. For years, he has been the one of first to teach emerging technologies in India thus ensuring the country always has people trained in technologies that the world requires. He has authored more than 80 technical and non-technical books, and is currently authoring two titles dealing with web application security, which will be published in the spring of 2008 in both English and Japanese.

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Yashavant Kanetkar

Yashavant is a pioneer in IT Education in India. A true entrepreneur, he has single handedly set benchmarks for IT education and has played a major role in taking IT learning to every nook and corner of India. He has authored several bestsellers over the last 15 years and helped shape the careers of millions of programmers throughout Asia.

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On Sale From April 2008

Let Us C
8th Ed.
C programming classic & best seller. 1 million+ copies sold!

Y. Kanetkar

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Introduction to Object Oriented Programming & C++

Y. Kanetkar

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Microsoft .NET Framework: Web Application Security

Vijay Mukhi

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Quest C++ Courseware
20 hours of instructional video and slides.

Y. Kanetkar Asang Dani

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A Programmer's Guide to Web Application Security

Vijay Mukhi

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