Joe Boerio is an SVP & CTO at Franklin Templeton Investments, Dublin, California. Mr Joe visited our campus along with his team in India. An interesting discussion on possible collaboration with institutions was done. Mr Joe came out with interesting areas of skills expected from campus graduates. He discussed various topics related to Cyber Security, Privacy, threat intelligence, data analytics.
Centre for Cyber Security and Data Analytics is launched at Andhra University : ISEA Project Phase 2, MeitY, Govt of India
The Centre for Cyber Security and Data Analytics at Andhra University campus aims at providing additional knowledge on contemporary issues, challenges and practices related to information security and data analytics related topics. The Centre envisions to train students, faculty, industry and government organizations involving experts from corporates and other academic institutions with the support of NASSCOM through APSSDC. TV9 coverage of the same is given below.
The Centre has necessary hardware and software infrastructure to train batches of size 30 in these areas. The Centre is partly funded by ISEA (information Security Education and Awareness) Project phase-2 of MeitY, Government of India. Under this scheme, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati will mentor the research carried out at this Centre. Prof M. Shashi and Prof V. Valli Kumari are the Chief and Co-Investigators of this project.
The Centre is open for conducting any hands on workshops and training programmes in the relevant fields upon request. The participants can experiment with the firewalls, switches, virtual wireless controllers, access points, network security, application security softwares and data analytics tools. In future necessary environment for cloud security and forensics will be provided. The participants can appear for certification exams.
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Yes this is interesting…
https://www.ted.com/talks/avi_rubin_all_your_devices_can_be_hacked?language=en
Gave a talk on ” Wireless Attacks-an overview” for the workshop on Information Security and its Tools on 30th March, 2016
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Second Annual Appraisal Workshop ISEA Project Phase II was conducted at IITM Research Park, IIT Madras Campus, Chennai. The event was coordinated by Prof.V.Kamakoti, IIT Madras.
Broadly, the two day workshop gave an opportunity to review the activities done so far, apprising various institutes about their roles & responsibilities (including the newly joined institutes / Technical Universities, aligning the activities of RCs & PIs with major / minor areas of ISRDCs (logical clustering) and set the expectation for future.
The event was presided by Shri Sanjiv Mittal, Joint Secretary DeitY and the special address was given by Prof. N. Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore. Commissioner, Chennai Police inaugurated the cyber security week and released the Information security awareness poster or brochure.
#ISEA project phase 2 poster release at #iitmadras #research park by #DIETY and #CDAC Government of India pic.twitter.com/ptzxl5kMJG
— V. Valli Kumari (@vallikumari) February 1, 2016
Vote of Thanks was given by Shri E Magesh, Director, C-DAC Hyd and the inaugural was closed.
In Session I Shri Sanjay Kumar Vyas, DeitY discussed at length on what was expected from the institutions. ISEA II Requirements were given by Shri Ch. A S Murty, CDAC Hyd. An overview of the ISEA Website / MIS, Courseware / Repository was given by CDAC employees
In Session II vision of each ISRDCs w.r.t. their major/minor research areas was discussed. The session was Chaired by Prof N.Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore. Prof R K Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay, Prof Sukumar Nandi, IIT Guwahati, Prof. V Kamakoti, IIT Madras spoke about their ISRDCs.
In Session III a separate Break out Session for Review of Cluster Performances by 4 ISRDCs covering was conducted:
Major / Minor areas alignment
Mentoring between centres for Phd guidance, research
papers etc.
Norms for sharing of labs at ISRDC
Review of RCs and PIs performance against the targets
decided and targets for the future
Utilization of Capital Budget / Capital Equipment
procured and Financial status
Any other point
Moderator: ISEA PMU
On Day 2 in session I, a roadmap of 4 ISRDCs was presented by the RCs. The session was Chaired by Prof. N Balakrishnan, IISc Bangalore.
Prof. V Kamakoti, IIT Madras gave the closing remarks