Chairman Cyber Committee
Dr. Gulshan Rai
Former National Cyber Security Coordinator,
Director General, Computer Emergency
Response Team (CERT-IN) and Chief Information
Security Officer, PMO, Govt of India.
Dr. Gulshan Rai holds a doctoral degree and M.Tech and has over 30 years of experience in different areas of Information Technology which include different aspects of e-Governance, cyber security, cyber laws and several related fields. He was the Chief Information Security Officer, Prime Minister’s Office. Earlier, he served as the Group Coordinator of E-Security and Cyber Law Division in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
He has led the team to set up National Watch and Alert System in the country as part of cyber security initiative and Computer Emergency Team. Several intermational cooperation agreements have been entered under his leadership. He led a team from time to time to draft and bring out National Policies in the area of cyber security and cyber laws. Dr. Rai has been working since 1998 and brought upon second Technology Legislation in the country i.e. Information Technology Act and recent amendments to the Act. He was Executive Director, ERNET India for over 7 years and was instrumental in setting up of the first large scale education and research network in close collaboration with the leading educational and research institutions in the country. During his tenure, the project of National Knowledge Network was evolved and designed. He has been leading team, designing and implementing IT solutions in the areas of finance, taxes and law & order.