BuildSec'25 Program Schedule

Venue: Central Lecture Hall (CLH), IIT Patna. All times are in IST (Indian Standard Time).

09:00 - 10:00
Registration
10:00 – 10:40
Workshop Inauguration (Room LT003)
10:40 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30

RESTORE Workshop — Keynote Session 1

Session Chair: Prof. Sanjay Jha (Room LT003)

Keynote Speaker: Dr. P K Saxena, Scientist 'H' & Former PSA Fellow and Former Director, SAG, DRDO

Title: India's Cyber-Security Vulnerabilities: Threat to Strategic Targets, Mitigation & Policy Imperatives

11:30 - 13:00
Parallel Sessions
  • RESTORE Workshop (Room LT003)
    Session Chair: Dr. Rakesh Matam, IIIT Guwahati

    Demonstration of Ransomware Defense Tools:
    • "Ransomware Early Detection Solution (REDS)" by Dr. Reshmi T.R., SETS, Chennai
    • "Escrow Your Encryption Secret (EYES)" by Dr. Kunal Abhishek, C-DAC Patna
    Special Session: "Ransomware Detection and Prevention" by Prof. Sandeep Shukla, Director, IIIT Hyderabad
  • Tutorial 1 (Room LT001)
    Session Chair: Prof. Venkatesan Subramanian, IIIT Allahabad
    Quantum-Resilient Internet: VPN and TLS in Practice — Dhivya Ravichandran & Sriram Pandikumar, SETS Chennai
13:00 - 14:30
Networking Lunch
14:30 - 16:00
Parallel Sessions
  • RESTORE Workshop (Room LT003)
    Session Chair: Dr. Samrat Mondal, IIT Patna

    Invited Talks:
    • "Security Engineering for Ransomware Cyber Resilience - A Systems Approach" by Commodore S. Vombatkere (Retd.), NM, Senior Director, SecureThings, Pune
    • "EM/Power Side-Channel Analysis: Advanced ML attacks and Low-overhead Countermeasures" by Dr. Debayan Das, IISc Bangalore
    • "RATAFIA: Ransomware Analysis using Time And Frequency Informed Autoencoders" by Dr. Sarani Bhattacharya, IIT Kharagpur
  • Tutorial 2 (Room LT001)
    Session Chair: Prof. Venkatesan Subramanian, IIIT Allahabad
    Next-Gen Cloud Cyber Defense Using AWS Security Tools — Aman Raj & Anand Handa, C3iHub, IIT Kanpur
16:00 - 16:20
Coffee Break
16:20 - 18:00
Parallel Sessions
  • MLBSS Workshop (Room LT003)
    Session Chair: Dr. Arun Balaji Buduru, IIIT Delhi

    Technical Session:
    • IF-Tree Lite: A Two-Stage Threat Detection Framework for IoT Networks (Bishal Chhetry, IIIT Guwahati; Rajdeep Kumar Dutta, IIIT Guwahati; Rakesh Matam, IIIT Guwahati; Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya, IIIT Guwahati)
    • An Integrated Multi-Modal Wearable System for Proactive Monitoring of Physiological Distress in Industrial Workers: A Work-in-Progress Report (Samminga Sainath Rao, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology; Akash Yadav, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology)
    • Contribution-Aware Federated Learning with Kolmogorov Arnold Networks and Shapley Values for Smart Healthcare (Himanshu Singh, IIT BHU; Ajay Pratap, IIT BHU)

    RESTORE Workshop (Room LT003)
    Panel Discussion: "Cyber Resilience Against Ransomware — Strategy and Policy Dialogue"
    Moderator: Maj. Gen. Ravi Chaudhary (Retd.), VSM, Former Sc. 'H', GoI
    Panelists: Dr. Manavjit Singh Dhillon (IPS), DIG, EOU, Bihar Police; Shri Santosh Kumar Pydipalli, Scientist 'E', CERT-IN; Shri Md. Matloob Raza Khan, Asst. Director, FSL, Govt. of Bihar
  • Tutorial 3 (Room LT001)
    Session Chair: Prof. Venkatesan Subramanian, IIIT Allahabad
    Real-Time Threat Detection & Blockchain Forensics — Abhishek Singh, Co-founder & CEO, SecureDApp, Bangalore
18:00 – 18:30
Closing remarks
08:30 - 09:30
Registration
9:30 – 10:30
BuildSec'25 Inauguration
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Keynote Session 1

Session Chair: Prof. Sanjay Jha

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sridevan Parameswaran, The University of Sydney, Australia

Title: Jittery When Faced with Power: Remote Side Channels in Reconfigurable Systems

Abstract: Read Abstract

12:00 - 13:00

Technical Session 1

Session Chair: Prof. Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur

  • Cyber security of Mega Events: A Case Study of Securing the Digital Infrastructure for MahaKumbh 2025 - A 45 days Mega Event of 600 Million Footfalls
    (Rohit Negi, IIT Kanpur; Amit Negi, IIT Kanpur; Manish Sharma, IHUB NTIHAC Foundation; Venkatesan Subramanian, IIIT Allahabad; Prem Gautam, UP Police; and Sandeep K Shukla, IIIT Hyderabad)
  • Anomaly Detection in Telemetry Data Using Attention-Based LSTM-VAE and Multi-Scale Residual Analysis
    (Abhishek Kumar Pandey, IIT Patna; Somanath Pradhan, IIT Patna; Priyanka V, ISRO, Bangalore; Ravikumar Lagisetty, ISRO, Bangalore)
  • Adaptive and Privacy-Preserving Anomaly Detection in IoT Edge Security using Neuromorphic Computing
    (Tamal Dey, CDAC; Gopinath Bej, CDAC; Devdulal Ghosh, CDAC; Subhankar Mukherjee, CDAC; Hena Ray, CDAC; Ch A S Murty, CDAC)
13:00 - 14:30
Networking Lunch
14:30 - 15:50

Technical Session 2

Session Chair: Dr. Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, IIT Indore

  • PFMPUF: a Configurable and Scalable Ring Oscillator PUF based on Pulse Frequency Modulation
    (Rajat Subhra Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur)
  • Multi-Gateway NDN-IoT Framework: A Modular Approach with Security Enhancement and Performance Evaluation
    (Hitesh Daga, CDAC; Ganesh Karande, CDAC; Devadatta Sasmala, CDAC; Naveen Kumar, Meity; Piyush Kumar, MeitY)
  • NDN-SmartHome: A Secure Authentication and Efficient Content Dissemination Framework in NDNoT-based Smart Home
    (Atanu Sarkar, NIT Sikkim; Sangram Ray, NIT Sikkim, and Mou Dasgupta, NIT Raipur)
15:50 - 16:10
Coffee Break
16:10 - 17:30

Technical Session 3

Session Chair: Dr. Ajay Pratap, IIT BHU

  • Towards Oracle-Guided Key Recovery in Logic Locking Techniques using Differential Cryptanalysis
    (Bodhisatwa Mazumdar, IIT Indore; Soma Saha, PIEMR Indore)
  • Low-Level Implementation Analysis and Key Recovery in TellYouThePass Ransomware
    (Kunal Abhishek, CDAC Patna; Prabhakar Mishra, CDAC Patna; Manuj Aggarwal, MeitY)
  • Security Strategies for Critical Testing Infrastructure for defence Exams
    (Jyoti Sharma, CDAC; Madhuri Lohia, CDAC; Aryan Kataria, CDAC; Amit Gupta, CDAC)
19:00 – 21:00
Banquet Dinner
09:00 - 09:30
Registration
09:30 - 10:30

Keynote Session 2

Session Chair: Prof. Jimson Mathew

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sandeep Shukla, Director, IIIT Hyderabad

Title: Ransomware Detection and Prevention: The stories of RANDART and LARM

Abstract: Read Abstract

10:30 - 10:50
Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:10

Technical Session 4

Session Chair: Dr. Reshmi T.R., SETS Chennai

  • "Your Doctor is Spying on You": An Analysis of Data Practices in Mobile Healthcare Applications
    (Luke Stevenson, University of Denver; Sanchari Das, George Mason University)
  • LLM-FS: Zero-Shot Feature Selection for Effective and Interpretable Malware Detection
    (Naveen Gill, NIT Calicut; Ajvad Haneef K, NIT Calicut; and S D Madhu Kumar, NIT Calicut)
  • A Dynamic Analysis Approach Using CAPE Sandbox for Malware Detection
    (Pooja Jain, IIITDM Jabalpur; Dr. Nitish Andola, IIITDM Jabalpur)
12:10 – 13:00
Panel Discussion: "AI in Cyber and Cyber in AI: Building a Secure & Intelligent Future"

Moderator: Mukesh Jain, CTO, Capgemini
Panelists: Prof. Sanjay Jha, UNSW; Prof. PK Saxena, Former PSA Fellow, O/o PSA to GoI & Former CC R&D, DRDO, Delhi; Dr. Arun Balaji Buduru, IIIT Delhi; Mr. Karthik Nagarajan, Senior Industry Principal, Infosys
13:00 - 14:30
Networking Lunch
14:30 - 16:10

Technical Session 5

Session Chair: Dr. Sanchari Das, George Mason University

  • Security Risk Analysis of the Blockchain Application Ecosystem
    (Divyanshu Semwal, IIIT Allahabad; Sathya Priya S, SRM IST Ramapuram; Pavan Kumar Ponnaganti, IIIT Hyderabad; Vimal Dwivedi, Ulster University, Northern Ireland; Venkatesan S, IIIT Allahabad; Sandeep Kumar Shukla, IIIT Hyderabad)
  • An Empirical Analysis of Vulnerability Detection Tools for Ethereum Smart Contracts
    (Neeraj Kumar, CDAC Patna; Kunal Abhishek, CDAC Patna)
  • Securing AI-Generated Media: Rethinking Deepfake Vulnerabilities in Side-Face Perspectives
    (Bibek Das, IIT Patna; Chandranath Adak, IIT Patna; Anurag Deo, IIT Patna; Aditya Bangar, IIT Kanpur; Rahul Verma, IIT Patna; Zahid Akhtar, State University of New York Polytechnic Institute; Soumi Chattopadhyay, IIT Indore; Soumya Dutta, IIT Kanpur; Ashutosh Parihar, IIT Indore; Anand Suralkar, IIT Indore; Deepak Nagar, IIT Patna; Vishal Kumar, IIT Kanpur)
  • An Integrated ML–Blockchain Framework for Detecting and Resolving Insurance Fraud Disputes
    (Priyanka Prasad, NIT Raipur; Preeti Chandrakar, NIT Raipur; Vipin Kumar Nayak, NIT Raipur)
  • ServerSpy: Unified Server and Database Fingerprinting Tool
    (Tanisha Prakash, IIIT Allahabad; Naziya Aslam IIIT Allahabad; Venkatesan Subramanian, IIIT Allahabad)
16:10 – 16:30
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:20

Technical Session 6

Session Chair: Dr. Raju Halder, IIT Patna

  • From Disinformation to Manipulation: Tackling Deepfakes Through Law and Technology
    (Unmesh Mandal, University of Calcutta; Sanjit Kumar Setua, University of Calcutta; and Sayan Sen Sarma, Vidyasagar University)
  • Botnet Fingerprinting Using State Transition Analysis
    (Kiara Nand, UNSW; Shabnam Kasra, UNSW)
17:20 – 17:30
Highlights by CDAC Patna by Dr. Kunal Abhishek (Scientist 'E' & HoD, Cyber Security and Forensics)
17:30 - 18:00
Highlights by Keysight and Incubation Centre IITP
18:00 – 18:30
Valedictory Session