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Ethical hacking contest at Amrita University
Hindu, November 29, 2011
Amrita Centre for Cyber Security of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is conducting 'India Capture the Flag (InCTF)', an ethical hacking contest. It is to promote awareness about cyber security among students and hive them hands on experience in secure coding practices.
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Participate In InCTF To Learn Secure Coding Practices
EFYTimes News, December 13, 2011
Amrita University, Amritapuri, Kerala, in association with Amrita TIFAC Core in Cyber security, is conducting a national level (Capture-The-Flag style contest) ethical hacking contest, InCTF, for students.
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Development of Trust Models for Cloud Computing
October 8th 2011
Amrita Cyber Security welcomes Shri.A.S.A. Krishnan, DIT; Shri N. Ramani, NIAS, Bangalore - Chairman; Shri Sanjay Bahl, CISO Microsoft India; Dr. B.B. Prahlada Rao, CDAC, Pune, to Amrita campus for a meeting.
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InCTF'2012
National Level CTF Style Ethical Hacking Contest 2012 - September 19th 2011 - Online Registration Starts - Register NOW!.
First Round Submission Date - November 4th 2011
Positive Hack Days CTF (PHD CTF) 2011
Research Assistants of Cybersecurity Center attend, by invitation, a top international CTF contest in Russia which is sponsored by Kaspersky Labs and Cisco.
NLIWC-2011
National Level Instructional Workshop on Cryptology- (May 9-13,2011)
Venue: Amrita University, Ettimadai Campus
Workshop on Cloud Computing and Cyber Security
2 days workshop on 7th & 8th, April 2011 conducted successfully at Amrita University, Mysore Campus
Need for Cyber Security and Cyber law courses in Academia
Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan, Director, Amrita TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security, delivered an invited talk at the Bangalore Cyber Security Summit 2011
Book Published
Cyber Security, Cyber Crime and Cyber Forensics: Applications and Perspectives
Past Events
Secure Coding
Symantec is offering a course on secure coding.
Software Protection Course
Dr. Arun Lakhotia from The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana is offering a 3 credit course on Software Protection
Cloud Computing Course
Dr. Kaladhar Vorunganti, Technical Director, Advanced Technology Group, NetApps offered a semester long course on cloud computing
InCTF'10 India's First National Level "CTF" Contest
Feb - March 2010 Amrita TIFAC CORE Conducted InCTF'10, India's First National Level "Capture the Flag" Style Ethical Hacking Contest. It saw 290 teams from 19 different states participating.
Ethical Hacking Workshop
Sajan Kumar, Research Assistant, Amrita TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security conducted a 1 day workshop on Network Security (Ethical Hacking) at Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore on 6th October 2010 .
eCrime Congress
Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan, R. Mudaliar, Invited talk at Plenary Session on "Optimizing e-Security Strategy" at eCrime Congress, Mumbai, Feb. 2010.
Indo-US Bi-lateral Workshop
The Center conducted an Indo-US bi-lateral workshop in Cyber-Security, Cyber-Crime and Cyber-Forensics, Aug 19-21, 2009.
Workshops Conducted
Two day workshop on Cloud computing and Cyber Secuirty on 7th and 8th April, 2011
One day workshop on Network Security at Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore on October, 2010
One day workshop on Ethical Hacking at SSM College, Erode on February, 2009
Two day workshop on Network Security and Ethical Hacking at VLB College of Engineering, Coimabatore on April, 2008
Participation in International Capture the Flag Contests
| Date | Name of CTF |
Comments |
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| 2009, Oct |
ruCTF |
Ranked 28th out of 43 teams world wide |
| 2009, Aug | HARCTF |
Ranked 14th out of 38 teams world wide |
| 2009, Jul | CIPHER 5 | Ranked 22nd out of 35 teams world wide |
| 2008, Dec | UCSB iCTF | Ranked 34th out of 39 teams world wide. |
| 2008, Aug | CIPHER 4 | Ranked 24th out of 31 teams world wide. |
| 2007, Dec | UCSB iCTF | Ranked 35th out of 36 teams world wide. |
| 2007, Jul | CIPHER 3 | Ranked 19th out of 25 teams world wide. |
Talks - (Delivered by center faculty)
Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan, Director, Amrita TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security, delivered an invited talk titled "Need for Cyber Security and Cyber law courses in Academia" at the Bangalore Cyber Security Summit, March 2011
Dr. Krishnashree Achuthan, R. Mudaliar, Invited talk at Plenary Session on "Optimizing e-Security Strategy" at eCrime Congress, Mumbai, Feb. 2010.
Sethumadhavan M, Sindhu M and Sajan Kumar S "Error Linear Complexity Measures of Binary Multisequences", Indo-US Conference & Workshop on Cyber Security, Cyber Crime & Cyber Forensics, Aug 19-21, 2009
August 14,2007: Dr.M.Sethumadhavan gave a lecture on " Security models" at AICTE sponsored FDP in Information Security and Assurance at Kalasingam University,
August, 2007: Dr.M.Sethumadhavan gave a lecture on " Security of Cryptographic Protocols" at National Workshop on Cryptography at St.Joseph's College, Iringalukada.
September 15, 2007: Dr. M. Sethumadhavan gave a lecture on "Forward Security for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks" in SecNet'07 Seminar on Network Security organized by Air Force Technical College, Bangalore as part of Indian Air Force, Platinum Jubilee.
April 30, 2007: Dr. M. Sethumadhavan gave a lecture on "Security Issues of Skype" at a Seminar on Mathematics Research Methodology-An overview: at Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore.
April 26, 2007:Dr.M.Sethumadhavan gave a lecture on "Stability issues of Word based stream ciphers" Srinivasa Ramanujan Memorial symposium on cryptography at SASTRA University.
April 19, 2007: Dr.M.Sethumadhavan gave a lecture on "Cyber Security: A Mathematical aspects view" at National Instructional seminar on "Recent Trends in Applicational Mathematics" at VAST, Thrissur.
March 8, 2007: Dr. M. Sethumadhavan gave a tutorial on "Word-based Stream Ciphers", on National Conference on Cyber Security at Bangalore.
February 23, 2007: Dr. M. Sethumadhavan gave a lecture on "Digital Cash" in National Seminar on Discrete and Fuzzy Mathematics and their Applications in Engineering and Technology, Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Angamaly, Kerala.
December , 2006 :Dr. M. Sethumadhavan gave a lecture on "Recent trends in Stream Ciphers" to scientists of ADRIN (ISRO) as a part of the project review which took place at Hyderabad.
Invited Lecturess
January 2011 - Dr. Bart Jacobs, Professor of Software Security and Correctness, Radbound University - Smart Card Technology and Ramifications
December 2009 - Dr. Madhukar Korupolu, Google Inc - Introudction to MapReduce
December 2009 - Dr. Sreeranga Rajan, Fujitsu Labs - Data Leak Prevention
December 2009 - Dr. Kaladhar Vorunganti, Technical Director, Advanced Technology Group, NetApps - Storage in the Cloud
December 2009 - Prof. Ross Anderson - Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Distinguished Lecture on 'What is Engineering?'
Aug '07-Mar '08 - Prof. R.V. Ramamoorthy, Michigan State University on Sabbatical and offered a course on Pattern Recognition
August 11, 2008 - Dr. Siddheswar Ray, Professor, Monash University, Australia gave a lecture on "Frontiers of Research in Machine Intelligence"
July, 2008 - Dr. R. Krishnan, Dean, IIST, gave a two day lecture on "Remote sensing: An Image Processing perspective High resolution image analysis"
July, 2008 - Prof. Shyamasundar, Senior Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research gave a lecture on "Secure Operating System"
27-30 May 2008 & 9-14 June 2008
Prof. Vittal Rao, IISc., Bangalore, gave a series of lectures on "Applied Linear Algebra"
April 2008 Dr.O.Shri Kant, Scientist-F, DRDO gave a series of lectures in "Pattern Recognition for Computer Security"
April 2008 Dr.P.K.Saxena, Director-SAG, DRDO gave a series of lectures in "Fuzzy Logic and its Applications to Cryptology"
December 2007 - Dr. Sankar Sitaram, Howard University, gave a one day lecture on "Riemann Hypothesis"
February 22, 2007: Dr. K. S. R. Anjaneyulu, Deputy Director, HP Labs India gave a lecture on" The roles and working of HP labs. He also discussed research foci for HP such as Mass Communication, IT Convergence, Mobile Personal Computing and Technology for Services.
Jan 2007: Mr. Vinay Aggrawal, Technical University of Berlin "Lecture series in Peer- to- Peer Systems"
Jan 2007: Dr. C.R Chakravarthy, Former Director, SAG, DRDO "Recent trends in Cryptography"
Dec 2006: Mr. Richard Hartmann, Technical University of Munich "Lecture series on VoIP Detection" December 18-21, 2006.
Nov 2006: Prof. Bharat Jayaraman, University of Buffalo "Language Based Security"
Sept 2006: Prof. S. V. Raghavan, IIT Madras gave a lecture on "Research Issues in National Information Infrastructure Protection".
Sept 2006 : Dr. V. P. Gulati, TCS , Hyderabad gave a lecture on "Challenges for Banking and Financial
services"
Sept 2006: Dr. B. S. D. Prasada Rao, National Technical Research Organization gave a lecture on "Cryptanalysis-An Overview"
August 2006: Dr. Ramalingam Sridhar, University of Buffalo visited our University for giving a lecture series on "Trends in Wireless Network Security" and he also had taken classes on Advanced Networking for M. Tech Cyber Security students for a period of six weeks.
August 9, 2006: Dr. Shri Kant, Scientist, DRDO gave an invited talk on "Network/Cyber Security:
Cryptology and Communication"
Distinguished Visitors
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Dr. Bart Jacobs Professor of Software Security and Correctness Digital Security (DS) Group Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Professor of Design and Verification of Secure Software Systems Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 2011-01-28 Talk on Smart Card Technology and Ramifications |
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Dr. Kaladhar Vorunganti NetApps, Technical Director, Advanced Technology Group - Storage in the Cloud |
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Prof. Ross Anderson Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge Distinguished Lecture on 'What is Engineering?' |
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Dr. R. Krishnan Dean, IIST, gave a two day lecture on "Remote sensing: An Image Processing perspective High resolution image analysis" |
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Prof. Shyamasundar Senior Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research gave a lecture on "Secure Operating System" |