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L Sriram …. CISSP,
CISA is based out of Delhi NCR area and works there in the information security
domain. He currently manages VA/PT and third-party assessment programs for
his company. His interest in the project is to help businesses realize
impending threats and take appropriate mitigative actions. Contact him on
LinkedIn Anand Tanksali … based
in Mumbai he specializes in Unix systems and is currently employed with a
large IT services firm. Independent VA/PT/AppSec consultant. K.K. Mookhey … Principal Consultant and Founder at NII Consulting. He is an
internationally well-regarded expert in the field of IT governance,
information risk management, forensic investigations, and business
continuity. He is the author of”Linux Security And Controls” (ISACA), and
“Metasploit Framework” (Syngress Publishing), and of numerous articles on
information security. He has also presented at conferences such as OWASP,
Blackhat, Interop, IT Underground and others. KK’s
detailed profile is here…. Dinesh Bareja
… Information Security
professional, based in Bombay. Working in technical security and is
interested in the business facet of Information Security and especially the
need to provide ROI from InfoSec to business. You can catch him on LinkedIn Yash Kadakia… entrepreneur co-founder and
CTO at Security Brigade. In this role, he is
involved with Information Security at all levels, while constantly performing
Penetration Testing (Ethical Hacking), Vulnerability Assessments, Security
Compliance Consulting, Policy and Framework Design etc. He also enjoys
Training students and Developers about Security Issues. Kiran Bandla… is a Security Researcher at CA/HCL. His
research interests include botnets, automated unpacking, rootkits, reverse
engineering and exploit development, He has previously worked with Arbor
Networks, Cigital Inc. He has a Masters Degree in Information Security
and Assurance from George Mason University. Manoj
Kuruvanthody... is based in Bangalore and you can check Manoj too on LinkedIn Amit Deshmukh…. CISSP, CISA, BS 7799 is based in Bombay
working with Qualys as Account Mgr (AsiaPac). Information Security expert
with extensive experience in Security consulting, Solution design, Project
management, Audit and compliance. Aim…
to deliver security solutions meeting business objectives and
requirements based on extensive technical expertise and knowledge of the IT
security and cyber crime industry. Devanand… is based in Chennai and is a CISSP,CISA,ISO27001 LA. He is in the
InfoSec domain for the past 5 years, working actively on ISO27001, policies
& procedures. Arvind Singh… is based in Mumbai working with Rediff India Ltd. Specialization in
qmail, Web Service, Application Security and interested in reverse
engineering and Forensics. Bipin
Upadhyay … is based in Mumbai working
with Directi. He is an Open Source evangelist and a PHP guru. Amit Chugh....
CEH professional based
in Delhi has been in InfoSec for 4+ years. Has been conducting BIA and
working in implementing ISMS for ISO27001 certification. Sameer
Ratolikar… is
based in Mumbai and heads security at one of India’s largest banks. S Krishna Kumar … retired from State Bank of India(SBI) as GM
(IT) & CISO. Among the
earliest CISAs in India (1995), career banker of 36 years
experience in India and overseas, he had set up the Information Security Dept
in SBI, in 2004, with a slew of initiatives such as Security Policies,
Standards, and Procedures, Roles & Responsibilities for Information
Security, ISO 27001:2005 certification for Data Centre, Disaster
Recovery centre, ATM & Internet Banking. Currently engaged in IT
& IS Security consulting for BFSI. Aseem Jakhar... “A security researcher and system programmer by profession, Open source and security evangelist by choice. Have designed and developed various security modules including content filtering engines, firewall, Multicast packet reflector, captive protal for web user authentication, HTTPS URL filtering MitM proxy to name a few, and worked on many enterprise security products/appliances. Speaker at security and open source conferences. Some of the premier conferences where I have presented include: BlakHat Europe 2008, clubHack 2008, Gnunify 2007 and 2009, Xcon Beijing 2009. “ Project(s) …
Interested in working on reverse engineering or any other research based
projects. Murtuja Bharmal ... is a Linux Kernel and Network Security maniac and works as a Senior System Engineer at IBM. He has been contributing in the development of various Network Security products like Firewall, VPN, Application Proxies, Authentication Modules for the past 5 years. He has single handedly developed firewall product and got it compliant with ICSA-Labs and also has expertise in customization, security-patching and integration of open source products like SQUID, IPTables, VRRP, OpenSwan. Wasim Halani...
CPH, is a Security
Analyst in the Technical Assessment team at NII Consulting focusing on VA/PT.
He has successfully carried out a number of Network, Web-Application and
Business-Logic PT asignments. Well-versed with the OWASP methodology,
Security Assessments and Wireless Assessment and he is also providing
training services as an Associate Trainer Project ..
Continuing with the Nepenthes Honeypot and moving into more complex HP
architectures. The aim of starting this HP was to study attack vectors and
new malwares on the Internet especially in India. Simran Gambhir …
“curious fellow, likes to hack - white hat only please! open source,
linux, perl, java, mysql, postgres, apache, tomcat, networking, c, python,
web apps, "satan", metasploit, backtrack, other - always keen to
learn. Been "hacking" since 1991 :)” CTO, Praxeva India Services Pvt Ltd
(Bangalore)…. Simran’s detailed
profile is here… Project(s)…
Would love to be part of a honeypot project. Haven't got the time to lead one
myself, but feel i can contribute in the technical space significantly. Rishi Narang ...
B.Tech (I.T.) is a
Security Researcher with Trend Micro Inc. in Bangalore. His work includes
research on recent & zero day vulnerabilities, reverse engineering and
IDS/IPS Signature Development. He was the first to report a working PoC for
Google Chrome Browser and has authored articles on recent advances in
Information Security & Research. Is closely associated with Hakin9
Magazine (International Edition) and has been a speaker at OWASP (Mumbai
Chapter) and EsurakshIT 2009. Project.. is
interested in Traffic and PCAP Analysis, Samples, Inline Detection etc. Has
been working on a small Honeypot for nearly 10 months now and has a lab setup
with some VMs & Capture HPC client. Unfortunately the project had to be
(recently) suspended due to the lack of URLs to feed and his scripts are
still not ready to crawl the web. Though he is researching on malware as well
as 0-day exploits that are pushed via WWW or drive-by-download he is more
inclined towards the underlying obfuscated javascripts and if they can be
heuristically captured on the wire. Swatantra Kumar
Gupta ... is
working as Security Consultant in a leading Info Security firm and is
pursuing a Masters degree in Information Systems and Security at Symbiosis,
Pune. Abhishek Thorat … is a newbie and learning about hacks &
viruses. Deepak Rout… is based in Bangalore and heads security at
one of the large IT companies. Akash Mahajan… Security Consultant, (Web / Networks /Servers
/ IT/ Virtualization) and he is the founder of Headstart Network Foundation Shashidhar CN… is based in Bangalore and his areas of
expertise are project management, writing technical reports & hacker
profiling. Abhilash Sani… is fascinated in acquiring and learning
knowledge about malware analysis and is currently reading a bit about
Nepenthes, a low interaction Honeypot. He is very interested in exploring its
tremendous features as well. Rakesh Goyal… is a perpetual student in Information
Security and Forensics since 1991. In this process, he has written 6 books
and over 50 papers / articles on IT Security. He is Director-General of
'Center for Research and Prevention of Computer Crimes' and Editor of CCCNews
Newsletter, CCCNews Magazine and www.cccnews.in.
Some of his research papers have been discussed at international conferences.
For earning his bread, he manages Sysman
Computers Private Limited. More information about
Rakesh are available here. Saurabh Jaolikar… is based in Bombay working in InfoSec and
will soon tell you more about himself. Neha Chandra… in Pune, currently pursuing MBA is
Information Security from SCIT, Pune. Interests: Web security Currently
working on designing a honeypot framework as my pilot project. Harsh Patel … in Pune, I am a Student of Symbiosis
center of IT Pursuing MBA in Information systems and security. I have taken
honey-pot as my project and will to implement it right from scratch as it
would grant me enough experience. Shivakumar PA… in Chennai and I have 9 years of
experience in Information Security Management and hold industry certification
like CISSP, CISA, CISM. Planning to start a Honeynet project. Abhisek
Sanyal…
in Bangalore. I have worked for a couple of years in the Open Source Domain
and have played the role of a technical architect, programmer, systems
integrator etc. I still have a long way to go in the field of Open Source and
Security. I also suffer from the "When there is a problem, then there is
a solution" syndrome :) Dharm Singh… in New Delhi. A
technocrat having multi-pronged exposure to information security with
Master’s degree in software engineering from one of the best Institutes
imparting technical education in India. Have published various research
publications in information security domain across India and abroad.
Expertise’s in information security, intrusion prevention, intrusion
detection, vulnerability research, malware research, threat analysis,
application security. Holds Master of Engineering degree from BITS, Ranchi in
year 2006, has done one year of research project at IIT-Roorkee in Honeynet
Technologies. Having more than 5 years of experience in information and
network security currently serving a leading MNC and imparting the
information security principles for the organization. * Implemented Honeypot/Honeynet Gen-III as
an initiative towards learning of Honeynet technologies. Implemented the
Honeynet project at IIT, Roorkee and at RIEIT, Ropar Punjab. * “Evaluation of Probabilistic Packet
Marking Algorithm in Mitigation of DOS attacks” paper published in
International Conference on Intelligent Systems & Networks IISN-2007,
25th February 2007, Haryana. * Invited as visiting expert at a hacking
workshop HACKCON’2006 at Rayat Educational and Research Trust, Chandigarh,
23rd February 2006. * Conducted various awareness programs in
Internet security for the employees at the working organizations. At present
i am implementing the Honeynet Environment at my Organization to better
understand the detection and behavior of Zero-Day exploits. Mradul
Bagree…
in Pune. If i don't know the path i'll search for it or will make my path but
i'll reach the destination anyway. Bharath
Kumar…
in Bangalore. Information security audit aspirant. Nalini Kanta
Nayak…
in Bangalore. I would like to work with any of the groups in IHP. Pavan Shah… in Milwaukee, Interested in Security
research,penetration testing and web aplication vulnerabilities. I am
interested to contribute in Indian chapter of honeynet project for any
research activities based on honeypots.I am interested to setup honeypot
sensor at my home or participate in any project currently being planned by
this group. Rohit
Srivastwa…
Rohit Srivastwa is a well known security evangelist, having an expertise in
hacking, cyber crime investigation and IT infrastructure management. He is actively involved
in advising and assisting several military agencies, law enforcement
personnel, media, corporate and Government bodies. He provides coaching and
training to the Police department of Pune, Mauritius and Malaysia on the
related subjects. He is also a visiting faculty at Asian School of Cyber
Laws, Symbiosis and many other institutes. Rohit Srivastwa is the
founder of “ClubHack”, a community to provide a platform to the security
experts across the globe to come together. Objective of ClubHack is to spread
awareness in common people. As the motto says “Making security a common
sense” Currently Rohit
Srivastwa is working as Director Technology at Commonwealth Games Delhi
(2010). URL: http://rohit11.com Dhruv Soi…
in NOIDA, working with
Torrid Networks. Is a regular contributor and supporter to different open
communities and a strong follower of open source ecology. Leads OWASP Delhi.
Not having a Honeynet setup but wish to. Suresh Singh… in NOIDA, would like to work to enhance the security level of Indian
environment and IT. Not having a Honeynet project but would like to work and
contribute to any ongoing projects. Rama Subramaniam… in Chennai, is Principal Consultant at
Valiant Technologies; Adjunct Professor of Cyber Criminology at University of
Madras; Chairman and Trustee, Information Security and Cyber Crimes Research
Foundation. Rakesh Mukundan… in Chennai, I am basically from an electronics background, so I have
good exposure with hardware. From my second year in colleague I have been
into security field. I have developed a FPGA based NIDS and currently working
on wifi- honeypot. Well I have planned to
start a honeypot with few friends but it didn't work out. Now I am relocated
to Chennai, here I have plans to start a wireless honeypot. But currently I
don't have any honeypot running. Would love to work with IHP groups. I
believe in providing right information at right time, for that we need to
increase the co-operation b/n various HP chapters and decided upon a common
format to share data. Then only we will be able to combat the ever-growing
cyber threats. Ponnurangam
Kumaraguru (PK)… in
Delhi. Assistant Professor at the Indraprastha Institute of Information
Technology (IIIT). Is a Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at CMU. His
research interests include developing technological and inter-disciplinary
solutions to reduce computer crime, information security, malware analysis,
cyber crime, trust, and human computer interaction. He is serving as a
Program Co-Chair for the International Conference on Collaboration,
Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam (CEAS, 2010) and he is on the
Program Committee of Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS, 2010).
He is also serving as a reviewer for International Journal of Information
Security and ACM's Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT). I am interested in
providing a research bent to this activity (e.g. developing a framework to
collect empirical data that can be used to analyze the cyber crime situation
in India). In particular, I am interested in the Malware Analysis, Data
Visualization, and Social Networking projects. Justin Jacob… in Mumbai. Been involved in certain
security related projects like FPGA based NIDS. Also have some experience
with Backtrack, nmap, nessus. A Linux and network enthusiast. Project plans
as of now - working with some of the teams here. Kartik Shinde…
in Mumbai. I have been
an active contributor to the Honeynet project when it started about 5-6 years
back, it was interesting to solve the Scan of the month (SOTM) challenges.
It’s good to see the India Honeynet site, I would definitely contribute in
any way I can .. Kartik is a Honeynet enthusiast and has
contributed to the project when it started - "Scan of the months"
or SOTM's and has played extensively with honeyd as much as his PSP ;) Hrishikesh Murali…
in Bangalore I am doing my seventh semester in B.Tech,
Computer Science And Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam
Kerala. I am very interested in the field of cybersecurity and have participated
in CIPHER5 and HARCTF, which are international Capture The Flag (CTF) style
competitions and were placed twenty second and fourteenth worldwide
respectively. I am interested in being a part of the Honeynet Development
project as I am into the field of network security and am familiar with
network analyzing softwares like wireshark, and also have worked with a linux
environment for the past four years. I have read the project description and
am deeply interested to be a part of it. Project Plans: I am interested in joining the Honeynet
Deployment project in the Delhi region, as I am interested in the study of
botnets and how they function. Siva Gnanam…
in Chennai. I don't have
any honeynet project yet. Doing malware analysis. Am curious to analyze
botnets as I feel I am doing same(analysis) all the time. I want to share my
free time here in an useful way. Aman Sharma… in
Chennai. Currently, I am not working with any of the Honeynet projects, but
will feel honored if i am allowed to work on honeypot projects. I am
interested in penetration testing and analysis of DOS attacks. I am 3 yr
student, pursuing my bachelors in computer science and engineering. I have
very keen interest in field of infosec and network securities. Project: Have special interest in DOS
attacks. I like to make my future in field of infosec. Nishant Das
Patnaik… in
Bhubaneswar, he is a 21 year old IT security serial-entrepreneur and
evangelist. He specializes in penetration testing and cyber crime
investigation. Actively involved in advising law enforcement personnel,
media, corporate and Government bodies in these fields. He is also involved
in teaching related subjects and has trained the police departments of
Bhubaneswar. He is the Founder-President of National Ethical Hackers
Association, a member driven community to spread the security awareness. He
is also the Co-Founder & Executive Director, Innovate7 Technologies an
Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Firewall solutions company to end-users along with
providing managed IT security services e.g. network/wi-fi/bluetooth
penetration testing, vulnerability assessment. Nishant has been in the media
during numerous occasions, most spectacular was when Nishant appeared on the
front-page of Times of India, for discovering 38 Govt. Websites vulnerable to
hacking. Nishant has been awarded as the Youth Icon of Orissa 2009 by 93.5
RedFM. So far he has trained more than 3000 engineers across India and quite
many working professionals. He wants to start a
Honeynet project. Anshul Abhang… from Pune. Security Architect, CEH, CHFI, ECSA, LPT, CEI, cVa, ITIL V3,
Security+, CTT+ Project : We have currently one project
running funded by a private research company. It would be great if we get
some more help from other people in this community. Nanda Kumar Nainaduraiin… in Chennai. He is Vice President of
Computer Society of Anna University. Utkarsh Verma… in Pune. A student, MBA - Class of 2010 at Symbiosis
Centre of IT (Networks and IT Infrastructure); Tech Enthusiast and Blogger. Project : I want to
explore what is honey net. Currently working on botnets for my final dissertation. Manish Chasta…in Mumbai. I just want to work with IHP. I came to know about this
project at OWASP conference held in Mumbai this year. Anurag Khanna… in
Pune. Working on VA/PT(web and
network), intrusion detection. Prevention, Risk Management , Network design
and Network security. Project: Looking forward
to work with any of the groups in IHP
and then start one personal honeynet project. Gatta Sambasivara… in Hyderabad. Knowledge is power which
provides technical independence. I am
passionate about honeynet project since 2001 and contacted Mr.Lance. I
was working with C-DAC that time but could not able to get success on this
proposal. During that time Faiz already started honeypot at pakistan
(karachi) but my bosses did not approve as they had apprehensions on NW
surveillance. My area of research is NW Surveillance open source tools and
setup NW security research lab.I have done work on personal level and wish to
see India should have AirCERT to address our security concerns. Pallav Khandhar… in Pune. Malware Analyst, Reverse Engineer Project: I might want to start honeynet
project. Piyush Kumar... in Gurgaon. An accomplished Software
Engineer with extensive experience in Testing Infra setups (including
Performance Testing - web applications) and configuration of web/application
servers and Automation. Good expertise in development and implementation of
network and website Monitoring Solutions. I'm one of the Moderators of OSScamp – http://osscamp.in (India's
largest unconference on open source) I'm a an Open source software evangelist
and loved the philosophy of HP of *open source and sharing security research
and development knowledge with the community* and want to start a honeynet
project ! Interested in study of various attack
vectors in rel. to web applications! Rahul Kashyap... in Santa Clara. I've been involved with
infosec/security industry ~ a decade involving design and dev of security
products, pen testing, reverse engineering and vuln research. Project: I would like to expand the project
and take it to a all new level (whatever that means!) Vineet Kumar… in Ranchi. Already working to establish IHP
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