Shikha Goel Underlines Need for Safeguarding and Accountability in AI Systems
Ensuring Accountability, Encouraging Collaboration, Enhancing Capacity are the key factors to integrate AI with governance and privacy issues: Shikha Goel
Hyderabad: The ISACA Hyderabad Chapter celebrated a remarkable milestone as it marked 25 years of empowering governance, cybersecurity, and privacy professionals during its 25th Annual Conference, themed “TRUST AICS – 2025: Where AI Integrates Governance, Cybersecurity, and Privacy”.
The conference was inaugurated by Shikha Goel, DG and Director, Telangana Cyber Security Bureau and Telangana Forensic Science Laboratory, alongside ISACA Hyderabad board members and dignitaries. With over 400 registrations – the highest in the chapter’s history – the event built on the momentum of 2024’s successful edition and reaffirmed the chapter’s position as a leading professional community in the region.
Speaking about the conference Shikha Goel said, "I want to congratulate ISACA Hyderabad on their 25 years celebrations. Trust is at the very heart of technology, governance, cyber security, and privacy. The same AI that empowers us is also being weaponized by criminals through deep fakes, scams, and frauds.”
Without trust, technology collapses into fear, governance loses legitimacy, and privacy becomes a delusion. Everyday at the Cyber Security Bureau, the police receive so many calls reporting fresh cyber crimes. Technology which is meant to make our life easier is now being exploited as a tool for fraud. AI today is rampant being used by all major sectors. The urgency of the hour is safeguarding and accountability in AI systems and usage.
Professional bodies like ISACA are extremely essential if we want to use AI rightly and ethically. Ensuring Accountability, Encouraging Collaboration, Enhancing Capacity are the key factors to integrate AI with governance and privacy issues. As we move ahead, the real challenge is to build safeguards, accountability, and collaboration so that AI becomes a shield for society, not a threat. True safety will depend on the trust we nurture between citizens, government, institutions, and technology.
Welcoming delegates, GCS Sarma, President of ISACA Hyderabad Chapter, reflected on the organization’s 25-year journey, emphasizing its pivotal role in advancing professional knowledge, trust, and collaboration. The conference featured a distinguished lineup of speakers who shared their expertise on the evolving digital landscape.
Arindam Mukherjee, President–Sales, Cloud4C India, and Sandeep Shukla, Professor & Director Designate, Cyber Security Center, IIIT Hyderabad, delivered powerful keynote sessions, while Mythreyee Ganapathy, Product Leader at Google, energized participants with her talk on “The Future of Digital: Agentic AI.”