Santosh Khadsare

Lt Col (Dr) Santosh Khadsare, is an army veteran and is the Vice President of Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) at eSec Forte Technologies. He is a Cyber Security & DFIR professional with 25 years of rich experience in the fields of Digital Forensics, Cyber Laws, Information Security, Cyber Audit, and Incident Response. He holds a degree in B.E (Electronics and Telecommunications) and possesses additional qualifications such as CHFI, MCFE, CCO, CCPA, CEH, RHCSA, IVTA (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA), Advance Cyber Forensic Course (CDAC), Cyber Crime Investigator (CCI), Cyber Crime Intervention Officer (CCIO) and Access Data Certified Professional. He was the head of a Digital Forensic Lab at CERT-In, Ministry of Electronics and IT, New Delhi from Feb 2019 to Feb 2021. He is the Digital Forensic Analyst Excellence Award winner for the year 2021 and was the Member, in CII Task  Force on Cyber Security for the Year 2019-20, 2020-21. He is also an Adjunct Faculty Member at Rashtriya Raksha University (RRU), Gandhinagar and CHFI Scheme Committee member at EC- Council.