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Mysuru: The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ATME College of Engineering, Mysuru organized a Technical Talk on Awareness Session on Cybersecurity at its campus.
Derick Jose, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Flutura Decision Sciences amd Analytics, Houston Texas Area was the resource person. Saravanan Sundaramurthy, CEO and Founder, Xorbit Shifters, Bengaluru was the guest of honour.
Derick Jose, started the session by giving insight on Stuxnet, which targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems and is believed to be responsible for causing substantial damage to Iran’s nuclear program. He spoke about the Saudi Aramcyber-attack where the malware was used to target the Saudi government by causing destruction to the state-owned national oil company Saudi Aramco. He gave examples of how Chinese hackers target the Indian power grid. Further, the union government had announced spending 515 crores on cybersecurity. He explained about Spot which is an agile mobile robot that navigates the terrain with unprecedented mobility, allowing it to automate routine inspection tasks and data capture safely, accurately, and frequently. Further, he explained about BlackEnergy which is a malware toolkit that has been used by both criminal and APT actors.
He gave insights about InfraGard, to prevent hostile acts against the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT), which is the national nodal agency for responding to computer security incidents as and when they occur. He spoke in detail about the Cybersecurity strategies i.e Grid Attack detection, Grid attack Prevention, Grid Incident response, Grid Threat modeling,
He concluded the session by speaking about the 7 S of Physical forensic investigation, AI for Grid cybersecurity, Thermal AI pipelines, Drone AI, Grid vectors, snort attack detection, and potential opportunities for students. Post session questionnaire was held where faculty and students interacted with the resource person.
Dr. Parthasarathy L, Professor and HoD, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering spoke on the need for cybersecurity. He said the institution has been funded by AICTE-MODROB To Set Up Cybersecurity In The Power Systems Lab. He further gave insight on the internship opportunity for students which is jointly set up in consultation with Xorbit Shifters, Bengaluru, and IISC, Bengaluru.
Dr. L Basavaraj, Principal, ATME College of Engineering, presided over the meeting, Program Coordinator, Dr. Parthasarathy L, Event Coordinators, Dr.Shakunthala C, Associate Professor and Prof.Shreeshayana R, Assistant Professor, Faculty and students were present during the event.
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