Kapil Jaiswal, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc), Bangalore and IIM,Kolkata is presently Director Research (InfoSec & AI/ML) with Integrated Headquarters of Ministry of Defense (MoD). As part of his present role, he is leading a large Info Security and Cryptography Research teams along with management of Cyber Operations at scale. In addition, he is currently steering national level AI/ML empowered Intelligence Data Fusion mission and driving initiative on evaluating Blockchain transactions security. In his previous role as Director, Directorate of Systems Applications (DSA), he has shaped multiple technologically niche efforts ranging from countrywide strategic enterprise IT networks, it’s security risk assessment, and designing multi-tier security architecture for associated information systems. A dynamic professional & technology enthusiast with 25+ years of cross-domain strategic perspective, he has published multiple papers in interdisciplinary fields of Strategic Network & Systems, Information Security and Cognitive SDRs.