Overview
The teams active in this research area work on designing methods, technologies, and tools that positively influence both the theory and practice of cybersecurity and privacy, spanning the whole range of needs created by digital technologies.
Themes
This team’s research and innovation efforts cover the following five themes:
- Trustworthy AI: Suitably tweaked training data can lead to untrustworthy AI systems. Alternatively, systematic querying to existing models can help invert them, learn training data, and thus breach privacy. This has serious safety repercussions, with everything being connected in different domains. The research group under this theme aims to make AI more transparent, trustworthy, and ensure security in untrusted environments.
- Privacy by Design: Privacy is typically an afterthought and added later as a bolt on. This turns out to be a more expensive and less effective solution compared to embedding privacy in the whole software / system design and consideration right at the start. The marquee project under this theme tries to balance utility and privacy by allowing the data principal to choose between the two. Another project tries to move these concerns to an earlier stage in the SDLC, making it easier to guarantee software that respects privacy and privacy regulations
- De-Risking Cloud: There is an explosion in the cloud adoption for the agility, flexibility, and economies of scale it offers. However, security and privacy of data in cloud continue to remain major concerns. The research group under this theme works to secure data processing/storage in cloud, minimize data exposure to field agents and enable data sharing in a privacy preserving manner.
- Strengthening the ‘Carbon’ Layer: Human is always considered as the weakest link when it comes to security. The research group under this theme works on detecting and eliminating internal threats that target system vulnerabilities and risks and also addressing traditional access control limitations.
- Securing Internet of Things: While IoT has a lot of disruptive potential, catastrophe awaits in its new vulnerabilities and dangers. The research group under this theme works on resolving the security and privacy issues faced by devices that do not have a traditional interface and hence cannot employ the same protections as other machines
People & Patents
- Research team: Led by Chief Scientist Dr. Sachin Lodha and Principal Scientist Sitaram Chamarty, the team includes Vijayanand Banahatti; Srinivasa Rao Chalamala; Praveen Gauravaram; Mangesh Gharote; Rajan M. A.; Vigneswaran R.; Rajidi Satish Chandra Reddy; Sumanta Sarkar; Manish Shukla; and Kumar Vidhani
- Academic partners: Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Australia
- Patents This research group has received over 40 patents and has had its work published in over 20 journals and conferences
- Publications since 2016
1. Privacy Preserving Machine Learning for Malicious URL Detection
Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) 2021 Workshops
27/09/2021
Imtiyazuddin Shaik, Nitesh Emmadi, Harshal Tupsamudre, Harika Narumanchi and Rajan A
2. Visuals Triumph in a Curious Case of Privacy Policy.
IFIP Conference on Human Computer Interaction (INTERACT) 2021
30/08/2021
Shree Nivas, Gokul CJ, Vijayanand Banahatti and Sachin Lodha
3. Privacy Enabled Password Strength Meters with FHE
International Symposium on Cyber Security Cryptography and Machine Learning
09/07/2021
Imtiyazuddin Shaik, Harshal Tupsamudre, Nitesh Emmadi, Harika Narumanchi, Rajan M A and Sachin Lodha
4. Privacy Enabled Immunity Credential System on Blockchain.
Hyperledger Global Forum, 2021
09/06/2021
Harika Narumanchi, Nitesh Emmadi and Lakshmi Padmaja Maddali
5. Multi-Objective Optimization for Virtual Machine Allocation in Computational Scientific Workflow Under Uncertainty
11th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science
28/04/2021
Arun Ramamurthy, Priyanka D. Pantula, Mangesh Gharote, Kishalay Mitra and Sachin Lodha
6. Secure and Privacy Preserving Method for Biometric Template Protection using Fully Homomorphic Encryption.
IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications
05/12/2020
Imtiyazuddin Shaik, Arun Kumar Jindal, Vasudha Vasudha, Srinivas Rao Chalamala, Rajan M A and Sachin Lodha.
7. Generic CAPTCHA Solver using Histogram of Oriented Gradient.
International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS) 2020
20/12/2020
Abhijit Chougule, Harshal Tupsamudre and Sachin Lodha
8. PETA: Privacy Enabled Task Allocation.
IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
11/11/2020
Nitin Phuke, Saket Kumar Saurabh, Mangesh Gharote and Sachin Lodha
9. Selection of Cloud Service Providers in Multi-Cloud: A Comprehensive Methodology.
IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC)
01/11/2020
Arun Ramamurthy, Saket Kumar Saurabh, Santosh Palaskar, Mangesh Gharote and Sachin Lodha.
10. rProfiler: Assessing Insider Influence on Enterprise Assets
ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security
30/10/2020
Manish Shukla and Sachin Lodha.
11. PassO – New Circular Pattern Lock Scheme Evaluation
International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
05/10/2020
Sukanya Vaddepalli, Shree Nivas, Gokul CJ, Gangadhara Sirigireddy, Vijayanand Banahatti and Sachin Lodha.
12. A Patch Prioritization Framework for SCADA Chain in Smart Grid
Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) 2020
21/09/2020
Geeta Yadav, Praveen Gauravaram and Arun Jindal.
13. Passworld: A Serious Game for Enterprise Password Awareness
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2020
11/08/2020
Gokul CJ, Gangadhara Sirigireddy, Sukanya Vaddepalli, Vijayanand Banahatti, Sachin Lodha and Sankalp Pandit
14. A Recommender System for efficient implementation of Privacy Preserving Machine Learning Primitives based on FHE
International Symposium on Cyber Security Cryptology and Machine Learning
02/07/2020
Imtiyazuddin Shaik, Ajeetk Singh1, H Narumanchi, Nitesh Emmadi1, Rajan Ma
15. To infect or not to infect: a critical analysis of infective countermeasures in fault attacks
Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
23/05/2020
Anubhab Baksi, Dhiman Saha & Sumanta Sarkar
16. An Efficient Privacy-preserving IoT System for Face Recognition.
IEEE Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Security in IoT (ETSecIoT)
01/04/2020
Wanli Xue, Wen Hu, Praveen Gauranvaram, Aruna Seneviratne and Sanjay Jha
17. Decentralizing Access Controls through Blockchain
Hyperledger Global Forum 2020
06/03/2020
Nitesh Emmadi, Harshita Nallagonda and Vigneswaran R.
18. Veriblock: A Novel Blockchain Framework Based on Verifiable Computing and Trusted Execution Environment
International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS) 2020
10/01/2020
Lakshmi Padmaja Maddali, Meena Singh, Vigneswaran R, Rajan MA, Srujana K, Batsayan Da
19. Introduction to blockchain
General Technical Topic
14/12/2019
Rajan M A,
20. VeriBlock: A novel blockchain framework based on verifiable computing and trusted execution environment
International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS
16/12/2019
Meena Singh Dilip Thakur, Lakshmi Padmaja, Rajan M A, Vigneswaran, Srujana, Batsayan Das,
21. pFilter - Retrofitting Legacy Applications for Data Privacy
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
16/09/2019
Manish Shukla, Sachin Lodha, Vijayanand Mahadeo Banahatti, Gangadhara Reddy, Kumar Mansukhlal Vidhani,
22. Practical Challenges in Blockchain
General Technical Topic
18/09/2019
Vigneswaran,
23. Force vs. Nudge: Comparing Users Pattern Choices on SysPal and TinPal
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
16/09/2019
Harshal Tupsamudre, Sukanya Vaddepalli, Vijayanand Mahadeo Banahatti, Sachin Lodha,
24. Homomorphic Encryption: Enabling Secure Computations on Encrypted Data
White Papers
28/08/2019
Nitesh Emmadi, Rajan M A, Harika Narumanchi,
25. LIGHTER-R: Optimized Reversible Circuit Implementation for SBoxes
International System-on-Chip Conference
03/07/2019
Sumanta Sarkar,
26. From Strings to Things: Knowledge-Enabled VQA Model That Can Read and Reason
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
22/07/2019
Ajeet Kumar Singh,
27. OCR-VQA: Visual Question Answering by Reading Text in Images
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
20/05/2019
Ajeet Kumar Singh,
28. A Fuzzy Approach to Mute Sensitive Information in Noisy Audio Conversations
International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
21/02/2019
Imran Ahamad Sheikh, Sunil Kumar Kopparapu, Srinivasa Rao Chalamala, Bala Mallikarjuna Rao Garlapati,
29. PRAN: A Provenance Based Model and Prototype to Strengthen Authentication
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
14/01/2019
Rajidi Satish Chandra Reddy, Srinivas G Reddy
30. Biometric Template Protection Through Adversarial Learning
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics
05/09/2018
Santosh Kumar Jami, Srinivasa Rao Chalamala, Arun Kumar Jindal,
31. Securing Face Templates using Deep Convolutional Neural Network and Random Projection
IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics
05/09/2018
Arun Kumar Jindal, Srinivasa Rao Chalamala, Santosh Kumar Jami,
32. Deep Embedding using Bayesian Risk Minimization with Application to Sketch Recognition
Asian Conference on Computer Vision
15/06/2018
Ajeet Kumar Singh,
33. Practical Deployability of Permissioned Blockchains
Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies
23/06/2018
Nitesh Emmadi, Vigneswaran, Srujana, Lakshmi Padmaja, Harika Narumanchi,
34. Practical Deployability of Permissioned Blockchains
Blockchain and Smart Contract Technologies
23/06/2018
Nitesh Emmadi, Vigneswaran, Srujana, Lakshmi Padmaja, Harika Narumanchi,
35. Face Template Protection Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
04/04/2018
Arun Kumar Jindal, Srinivasa Rao Chalamala, Santosh Kumar Jami,
36. Lightweight Design Choices for LED-like Block Ciphers
International Conference on Cryptology
05/10/2017
Sumanta Sarkar, Habeeb Basha Syed,
37. A Dynamic Delegation Model and Prototype for an Enterprise Context
IEEE Conference on Open Systems
24/09/2017
Rajidi Satish Chandra Reddy, Srinivas G Reddy,
38. Multi-objective Stable Matching with Ties
IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
01/08/2017
Nitin Phuke, Mangesh Gharote, Sachin Lodha,
39. Security Analysis of a Design Variant of Randomized Hashing
Applications and Techniques in Information Security
24/04/2017
Praveen Gauravaram,
40. Analysis of Toeplitz MDS Matrices
Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy
07/04/2017
Sumanta Sarkar, Habeeb Basha Syed,
41. Thermal Infrared Face Recognition: A Review
International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation
13/03/2017
Krishna Rao, Srinivasa Rao Chalamala,
42. A System for Handwritten and Printed Text Classification
International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation
09/03/2017
Bala Mallikarjuna Rao Garlapati, Srinivasa Rao Chalamala,
43. Cross Local Gabor Binary Pattern Descriptor with Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis for Pose-Invariant Face Recognition
International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation
09/03/2017
Santosh Kumar Jami, Krishna Rao, Srinivasa Rao Chalamala,
44. Lightweight diffusion layer: Importance of Toeplitz matrices
Fast Software Encryption
23/01/2017
Sumanta Sarkar, Habeeb Basha Syed
45. Enterprise Digital Rights Management for Document Protection
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
23/12/2016
Rajidi Satish Chandra Reddy, Srinivas G Reddy,
46. Performance Analysis of Sorting of FHE Data: Integer-wise Comparison vs Bit-wise Comparison
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
22/12/2016
Harika Narumanchi, Nitesh Emmadi, Praveen Gauravaram,
47. A User Study about Security Practices of Less-Literate Smartphone Users
International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction
19/10/2016
Pankaj H Doke, Sylvan Lobo,
48. Rotate to Protect
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
03/06/2016
Harshal Tupsamudre, Akhil Dixit, Vijayanand Mahadeo Banahatti, Sachin Lodha, Manish Shukla,
49. An integrated framework to measure the energy consumption of a parallel application on a computational grid
International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security
15/05/2016
Rajan M A
