The South Asia Microsoft MVP Award Program

Microsoft MVPs are awarded every quarter and recognize the contributions of an individual to technical communities over the past year.

We are extremely happy to welcome the following new MVPs amongst our midst for this quarter:

Congratulations to all the MVP awardees, and the renewed MVPs, for this prestigious award! We are glad to have a Powershell and Internet Explorer MVP amongst us now.

To know more about the MVP Program, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/india/mvp

By the numbers, it’s safe to assume that this community event had the most number of MVPs participating. Add to it that one of the MVPs was from Ahmedabad, and another from Australia in India for vacation!

SQL Server MVPs from Chennai – Deepak Rangarajan, Vidhya Sagar, and Sugeshkumar Rajendran successfully organized the one day SQL Server Data Camp on July 17, 2010 in Chennai. It was the first day-long event in India focused on SQL Server. The event was attended by about 90 people, and each of them got a souvenir T-shirt.

 
SQL Server MVPs – Pinal Dave, Venkatesan Prabhu, and Madhu K Nair were the speakers at the event along with community folks in Chennai - Sudhir Mahendru and Baskar Krishnamurthy and Raymond Goh from DoubleTake Software. The organizers also acknowledged the behind-the-scenes support of MVPs - Jacob Sebastian and Madhivanan and User Group members - Ashok Kumar, Senthil Kumarasamy, and Nagesh.

You can find more event details on Deepak’s or Sugesh’s blog post or check event photos here.

The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium  - (ISC)² has honored Manu Zacharia, an Enterprise Security MVP from India, with the prestigious Asia Pacific Information Security Leadership Achievements award. (ISC)² officials will honor the ISLA honorees at the ISLA Gala Dinner and Ceremony on 26 July 2010 at The Ritz-Carlton, Millenia in Singapore. As part of (ISC)²’s Global Awards Program, ISLA aims to recognize the achievements of outstanding information security professionals who have significantly contributed to the enhancement of the workforce by demonstrating a leadership role in an information security workforce improvement initiative, program or project.

(Press Release)

(ISC)² is the largest not-for-profit membership body of certified information security professionals worldwide, with nearly 70,000 members in more than 135 countries. Globally recognized as the Gold Standard, (ISC)² issues the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP^®) and related concentrations, as well as the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP^Ò), Certified Authorization Professional (CAP^®), and Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP^®) credentials to qualifying candidates.