Mrs P.R.Lakshmi Eswari, is presently working as Director, C-DAC Hyderabad. She was involved in R&D in e-Security focusing on end system security, embedded security, mobile device security and blockchain technology. She along with her team developed and deployed various solutions in Cyber Security such as USB Pratirodh, AppSamvid, Browser JSGuard, M-Kavach and so on. They have successfully developed Property Record Management solution and Smart Phone based online Voting solution using Blockchain Technology. Currently, under consortium project she is involved in implementing the National Blockchain Framework. She is associated with C-DAC for the past 23 years in various R&D projects, solution development and capacity building initiatives. Earlier she worked as lecturer at NIT Warangal in Computer Science and Engineering Department.

Focus of the talk would be on the importance of secure software development practices towards mitigating the cyber threats