SQ1 Security Joins DSCI Cyber for Global Summit 2026 as In-Association With Partner

SQ1 Security was the In-Association With Partner for DSCI Cyber for Global Summit 2026, organized by the Data Security Council of India (DSCI). Held on 9 September 2026 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Outer Ring Road, Bengaluru, the summit brought together cybersecurity leaders, industry experts, and decision-makers to discuss the challenges and opportunities shaping the next phase of the global cybersecurity landscape. With conversations spanning AI-native security, privacy engineering, product security, digital sovereignty, quantum resilience, and cross-GCC threat intelligence, the event created a platform for exploring how organizations can strengthen security and resilience across increasingly complex digital environments.

AI for Third-Party Risk Management

Satish Narayanan, CEO & Co-Founder of SQ1 Security, joined the panel discussion “AI for Third-Party Risk Management.” Moderated by Aniruddha Prasanna, Information Security Director, Consilio India, the panel brought together perspectives from cybersecurity, retail, energy, and enterprise risk. Satish joined:

• Visagan Subburayalu, VP Infrastructure & Cybersecurity, Target
• Parimala Murthy, CISO Enterprise Risk and Policy, Shell

The discussion examined how AI is being applied to strengthen third-party risk management as organizations navigate increasingly complex and interconnected vendor and partner ecosystems. Key discussion areas included:

• Improving visibility across third-party ecosystems
• Applying AI to risk assessment
• Identifying vulnerabilities more proactively
• Moving beyond periodic third-party assessments
• Building more continuous and contextual approaches to risk management
• Strengthening resilience across interconnected ecosystems

The conversation highlighted the growing role of AI in helping security and risk teams approach third-party risk with greater visibility and context.

Continuous Compliance Across Borders

Prabhu K., VP – Engineering & Security at SQ1 Security, contributed to the roundtable “Continuous Compliance Across Borders: Automating Audit Readiness for Multi-Jurisdiction GCCs.” As Global Capability Centres operate across multiple jurisdictions and regulatory environments, the discussion examined the need for compliance practices that can scale with growing regulatory and operational complexity. Key areas included:

• Automating compliance processes
• Managing regulatory requirements across jurisdictions
• Maintaining continuous audit readiness
• Scaling compliance operations across GCC environments
• Improving compliance visibility
• Building more proactive and resilient compliance practices

The roundtable explored how automation can support GCCs in moving beyond periodic compliance exercises toward a more continuous approach to audit readiness.

AI Governance and Securing the AI Stack

Karthick Arumugam, Lead – Cybersecurity at SQ1 Security, delivered a keynote address titled “AI Governance: Insights from Agentic AI Production Deployment, Securing the AI Stack & Red Teaming.” The session explored the security considerations that emerge as organizations move agentic AI from pilots into production. Karthick examined the AI stack as a layered attack surface, covering:

• Applications and user interfaces
• Orchestration and AI agents
• Models
• Tools, plugins, and APIs
• Data
• Infrastructure

The discussion highlighted how autonomous AI systems can introduce new security considerations when they move beyond generating recommendations to taking actions across connected systems. Key areas included:

• Securing different layers of the AI stack
• Managing the access available to AI agents
• Securing APIs, tools, plugins, and integrations
• Addressing the challenges of human oversight at scale
• Understanding how errors can propagate across interconnected task chains
• Using red teaming to identify weaknesses in AI-enabled environments

The session emphasized that securing AI requires security and governance considerations across the layers, systems, and integrations that AI agents interact with.

SQ1 Security at the Summit

Beyond the speaking sessions, SQ1 Security engaged with cybersecurity leaders and decision-makers throughout the summit, sharing perspectives on evolving threats, emerging technologies, and the security priorities shaping modern enterprises and GCCs. The conversations brought together several interconnected areas of cybersecurity: AI Governance Addressing the security and governance considerations emerging as AI and agentic systems move into production. Third-Party Risk Exploring how organizations can improve visibility and manage risk across increasingly interconnected vendor ecosystems. Continuous Compliance Examining how automation can help organizations maintain compliance and audit readiness across multiple jurisdictions. GCC Cybersecurity Discussing the security priorities facing GCCs as they operate across global technology and regulatory environments. Together, these conversations reflected a broader shift in enterprise cybersecurity, where AI, ecosystems, compliance, and resilience increasingly intersect.

About SQ1 Security

SQ1 Security helps organizations strengthen their approach to Security, Compliance, and Data Privacy across an increasingly complex digital landscape. From AI-powered security operations and vulnerability and exposure management to compliance automation and data privacy intelligence, SQ1 Security combines cybersecurity expertise and purpose-built solutions to help organizations identify risk, strengthen controls, and build greater operational resilience.