Career
He has been awarded the title of "Indian Ambassador of Cyber Security in Education" by the Chairman of All India Council for Technical Education at the National Education Awards 2013. In 2016 he was a part of both, Forbes India and Forbes Asia list of 30 under 30. He has been referred to as the "Indian Firewall" and is a frequent technology writer in the Indian media.
He was a part of Government of India"s committee constituted in 2014 for preparation of vocational course for the new sector "Cyber Security" for National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF) under Ministry of Human Resource Development"s body All India Council for Technical Education. He was also a part of the core team that developed a smartphone privacy app - UnHack.
Saket was born and raised in Calcutta. In the year 2009, he joined the LNM Institute of Information Technology, for Engineering as a Computer Science Major.
Before starting Lucideus, Saket initiated his career by giving seminars and workshops on ethical hacking and cyber forensics across India. His workshops gradually became popular, as a result of which he was invited to over a hundred colleges across the globe.
Some of the major Institutions who have hosted his workshops include IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, IIT Guwahati, Jadavpur University.
Saket has trained more than 5000 students on Cyber Security. He is a regular speaker on various verticals of Information Security and Entrepreneurship at International Forums like CeBIT(Germany), Confederation of Indian Industry, Cyber Technical (Israel), ASSOCHAM, Data Security Council of India, Information Systems Audit and Control Association, TiE,TED (conference).
