BSides Islamabad 2021 Intro

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thank you so much uh good morning hello everyone ladies and gentlemen welcome to b-sides islam about 2021 we are very excited this is the second year that b-side security is happening in pakistan and this was the first uh chapter for b-side security which was happening which is happening in pakistan and this is your host ali on behalf of besides i welcome everyone today and thank you all for joining this virtual conference uh as you all already know that we have cancelled our in-person conference due to kobe 19. it was tough of us as well as to start our brand new pakistani chapter on virtual but it is highly uh safety is our priority so that's why

we are going virtual security besides is about community uh community development and sporting those who don't get an opportunity actually to excel in the cyber information security field so we are trying our level best that we can enable our youth and professionals as well so they can step into cyber security they can learn from you know the community and the seniors and the professionals as well that's why we are bringing this second year for you as i mentioned uh besides is a community driven framework for building events for information security community members our goal is to expand the spectrum of conversation beyond the traditional con convince of space and time it's also create opportunities for individuals as well so

that we can learn from each other as well so i would like to introduce our two organizers for beside islamabad first of all uh i will start with ibadisha can you introduce yourself please yeah hi hi hello everyone and i hope everybody is doing well uh obviously it's it's still virtual right now but uh we're trying best to you know accommodate and keep all of the activities up and running so yeah uh this is 2021 edition at the moment and you have uh yeah i think it's pretty much short this time but we're trying our best to make it more fruitful for the people in the community to learn and you know get as much as

knowledge as much as information out of it so yeah that's a bit about us and about the community thank you bob and our second co-organizer we have uh uh mustafa first of all can you introduce yourself please i'm one of the co-founders

in the discard you all know me now you see me also and immediately talks about both of the arguments you know up over to emma thank you mr wayne so the fourth community member and also besides one of the co-founders can you introduce yourself please thank you uh thank you everyone for attending besides this year 21 21 we are pleased to kick off this year's conference and hope to make this as memorable as the previous one as well inshallah all the talks and all the workshops i hope you guys enjoy them and looking forward to communicating with you guys on discord as well thank you everybody and also in the last i would like to thank your sponsors as

well without them it was impossible for us to deliver b-sides in pakistan and also you know we are bringing a lot of initiatives as uh mustafa we are bringing the community together we are you know we are giving some giveaways as well you know that's why our sponsors are supporting us they are giving us time and effort as well in our discord channel so if you have not already joined please join discord uh besides pakistan discord channel as well you will get a lot of good support from your professionals from your seniors the people who are already there the mentors and you will see a lot of mentors today as well we have our really

good talks and we are having workshops tomorrow as well so make sure you you know keep in touch with our youtube channel and also join the workshops tomorrow and you will get a lot of uh support from discord as well so reach out to discord if you need any help and muslim is there emma is there as well to support you as well so in our sponsors we have silver sponsors ebrix is one of our uh sponsors with a big cyber security company in pakistan we have tcn security and also applied network defense as well by chris sanders they are our silver sponsors and also we have our sports sponsors as well shisek is one of the

initiators i would say to bring women in the cyber security industry as well we are helping them and they are helping us as well as a small partner we have gis gisp as well which is global information security professions of pakistan big chapter uh there's a big community for cyber security professionals across the world pakistani professionals and we have urdu ike academy as well udu at academy is one of the forum where you can get the free trainings as well and the good thing is that okay you can get the trainings in urdu so you know it's it's easy to understand for you the language which you speak you understand as well you can go there and understand

as well and in the last we have ultra spectra uh second year in the lions folder for us they are our uh digital sport partner as well giving us an opportunity and platform so we can you know go to the next levels in the digital marketing space as well so thank you uh keep watching today uh we are live on youtube all day um until six o'clock pakistan time we have exciting talks cfp panel is coming up as well so if you don't know about the pen on our workshops or details go to besides islamabad.com you will find all these details over there as well so yep i will sign off from here after introduction and now we will in three to

four minutes we'll come back with our first speaker asif celine who is uh coming up quickly so thank you everyone and yep keep watching us thanks