“I’m a Technical Director at NCC Group and have been in the industry for more than 18 years. I relish the challenge in this dynamic field where we defenders of information assets have to be right all the time, but attackers have to be right only once. Judging the Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards gives me confidence about our industry’s ability to meet future challenges. The breadth of talent and depth of innovation is very encouraging, and I had a tough time ranking the nominations from the best to the rest. Onward, fellow cyber warriors!”

Technical Director | NCC Group | Chicago, Illinois, United States 

Sourya Biswas has 18 years of experience in Information Risk and Security, as both an industry operator and a consultant. He is currently a Technical Director at NCC Group, the largest dedicated security consulting firm in the world. In his current role, he evaluates clients’ security programs and advises them on enhancing their security postures.

He has authored tens of articles on cybersecurity and cloud computing and served as the Technical Editor for an authoritative textbook Cloud Essentials. He is a prolific public speaker and has been invited to present at security conferences like ISACA Conference, Geek Week, BSidesSF, Triangle InfoSeCon, SOURCE Boston and InfoSec World. He is a certified CISSP, CCSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT and PMP. 

Mr. Biswas was born in Kolkata, India. He has a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree (2004) in Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) – Kolkata and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree (2012) with honors from the University of Notre Dame. He is married with two children and lives in Chicago with his family.