Book Release
Failures as Stepping Stones – Dr. Surya Lakshmi Chellapilla, PGPPM (2015)
About the Book
What if failure is not the end of the road, but the beginning of a greater journey? In Failures as Stepping Stones, Dr. Surya Lakshmi Chellapilla presents an inspiring perspective on one of life’s most misunderstood experiences-failure. Through powerful insights, relatable examples, and timeless lessons, she shows how setbacks, disappointments, and unexpected challenges can become catalysts for growth, resilience, and success.Drawing from her own remarkable journey of overcoming physical challenges, pursuing academic excellence, and achieving significant milestones, the author demonstrates that success is rarely a straight path. Every accomplishment is shaped by perseverance, learning, and the courage to rise after every fall.Whether one is a student facing setbacks, a professional navigating challenges, an entrepreneur confronting uncertainty, or striving to achieve personal goals, this book will encourage the reader to view obstacles differently-not as barriers, but as opportunities to grow stronger & wiser.Filled with practical wisdom & motivational insights, Failures as Stepping Stones reminds readers that failure does not define future. Response to failure does.At its core, this book delivers a powerful message: every setback contains the seeds of future success, every challenge offers a lesson, and every failure can become a stepping stone toward a more meaningful and fulfilling life.Because the road to success is often built upon the lessons learned from failure.
About the Author
Dr. Surya Lakshmi Chellapilla (PGPPM 2015) is an officer of the Indian Railway Accounts Service (IRAS), author, and public policy professional. A member of the PGPPM 2013–15 cohort at IIM Bangalore, she has built a distinguished career in public service while championing resilience, inclusion, and lifelong learning.
Born with cerebral palsy, Dr. Chellapilla cleared the UPSC Civil Services Examination on her first attempt without coaching and went on to pursue a PhD in History from Andhra University. Despite the demands of a career that involved frequent transfers, she completed the Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management (PGPPM) at IIM Bangalore, reflecting her unwavering commitment to academic excellence and public leadership.
In her book, Failures as Stepping Stones: A Journey of Determination, Dignity and Purpose, she draws on her personal and professional experiences to explore resilience, perseverance, and the power of embracing setbacks as opportunities for growth. Through her writing, she encourages readers to redefine failure as a catalyst for purpose, confidence, and meaningful achievement.
Digital Forensics Playbook – Nishant Krishna, EEP (2024)
About the Author
Nishant Krishna, an alumnus of IIM-B and BITS Pilani, is an entrepreneur, writer, and inventor who loves exploring and using new ways to solve complex problems in cybersecurity, system programming, cognitive computing, computer vision, and product scaling to hyper-scale levels.
Nishant is the Founder and Executive Director for a Cybersecurity and Cyber Forensics consulting firm, “Visiminds Technologies”, and a Co-founder and CTO of Computer Vision and AI startup, “TechMachinery Labs”.
In his 25+ years of software development, he has created many products from scratch, working in various technical roles across Architecture, Cybersecurity, API Development, Anti-Counterfeiting Technologies, Cloud and Virtualization, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Machine Learning. Apart from his day-to-day work, he conducts core research in cybersecurity and cognitive computing. In cybersecurity, his focus is on cyber forensics and vulnerability assessment.
In his consulting role, he advises many companies on product development, threat surface reduction, database and application scalability, and the use of standard processes to deliver high-quality products.
As a leader, he works with, manages, and influences people across organizations to deliver high-quality products and services. He has been working with multiple large teams at any given time, bringing out the best in them for the organization’s success.
Nishant is also an adjunct professor teaching cybersecurity, cyber forensics, databases, and cognitive computing to students and faculty at multiple prestigious institutions, such as Ramaiah Institute of Technology and REVA University. As part of his teaching assignments, he seeks innovative, hands-on ways to teach complex concepts.
Nishant Krishna has been a voracious reader since childhood, sometimes completing one book in a week. He became interested in technical writing when he was asked to explain complex concepts to his colleagues in simple terms. As a hands-on person with 25+ years of career experience and 32+ years of experience working with computers, he loves exploring ways to describe complex programming and software engineering problems in a way everyone can understand.
While writing books on cybersecurity is his current passion, working on fiction also amuses him. He has written two books, “Python for Cybersecurity” and “Digital Forensics Playbook”. His ongoing fiction projects are his foray into experimenting with humor in his writing.
He can be reached at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishantkrishna/.
About book
Digital forensics is no longer limited to police departments or crime labs. In today’s digital-first world, every organization generates huge volumes of evidence across endpoints, servers, cloud platforms, applications, logs, networks, and user activity.
When incidents happen—ransomware, insider threats, data theft, fraud, malware infection, or sensitive data leakage—organizations must know how to identify, preserve, collect, analyze, and present digital evidence in a defensible manner. The quality of this process can directly impact business continuity, legal readiness, insurance claims, regulatory response, and trust.
Digital forensics is complex because evidence is often scattered, volatile, incomplete, and unstructured. Logs may be inconsistent, systems may be distributed, cloud data may be hard to preserve, and every investigation can follow different paths.
Digital Forensics Playbook addresses these challenges by providing a structured, practical, and case-oriented approach to forensic investigation.
The book features more than 100 practical recipes that guide readers from the fundamentals to real-world enterprise scenarios. It covers evidence handling, chain of custody, artifact collection, log analysis, memory analysis, malware investigation, reporting, and forensic readiness.
Designed for students, CHFI aspirants, incident responders, and security professionals, it serves as both a comprehensive learning guide and a hands-on reference.
