Saket Modi

Saket Modi (ca. 1990/91) is an Indian entrepreneur and ethical hacker. He is the co-founder and CEO of Lucideus Tech, an online cyber security company involved with securing government and corporate web services. 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. He has been referred to as the "Indian Firewall" and is a frequent technology writer in The INDIAN media.

Saket was born and raised in Calcutta. He started programming at the age of 14. 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 across the country as a result of which he was invited to more than 100 colleges across the globe. Some of the major Institutions who have hosted his workshops include IIT Kanpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Guwahati. Saket has personally trained more than 5000 students on Cyber Security. He is a regular speaker on various verticals of Information Security & Entrepreneurship at International Forums like Confederation of Indian Industry, ASSOCHAM, Data Security Council of India, ISACA, TiE,TED (conference).