Saibal K. Pal is a Senior Scientist at Scientific Analysis Group, Defence Research & Development Organization (DRDO), Delhi. He has served as former Director of Information Technology and Cyber Security in the Ministry last year. He received his PhD in Computer Science from University of Delhi and is an Invited Faculty & Research Guide at a number of national institutions. He has more than 2 decades of experience of working in public sector and has closely worked on the policy formulation and implementation for various types of communities in India. His areas of interest are E-Governance, Information & Network Security, Computational Intelligence and Information Systems. He has more than 200 publications in books, journals & international conference proceedings.