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Raghu Santanam is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and Director of the MSIM Program in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. His current research focuses on consumer related issues in pricing of digital products, Health Information Technology, Business Process Change, and Cloud Computing. Dr. Santanam has helped a number of organizations on Information Systems and Business Process related changes. He serves as an Associate Editor for Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems and Journal of Electronic Commerce Research. He is an advisory editor of the Elsevier series on “Handbooks in Information Systems.” He recently served as the Program Co-Chair for Workshop on E-Business, 2009. He facilitated the solutions and implementation work group proceedings in Arizona as part of the National Health Information Security and Privacy Collaboration project. Most recently, Dr. Santanam served as a co-PI on a research study entitled “Electronic Medical Records and Nurse Staffing: Best Practices and Performance Impacts.” This study examined the impact of EMR systems on hospital performance in California State.

M. Sethumadhavan received his PhD (Number Theory) from Calicut Regional Engineering College (presently a National Institute of Technology). He is a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science in Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore and is currently the Head, TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security. His area of interest is cryptography

Mohit Virendra received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2008. He currently works in the Software Design and Development team at Brocade Communications Systems in San Jose, CA. His research interests are Computer and Network Security, Wireless Networking and Storage Networks.

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Manish Agrawal is an Associate Professor in the department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences of the College of Business Administration at the University of South Florida. His current research interests include Information security, Software quality and the development of application-specific Agent-based systems. He completed his Ph.D. at SUNY Buffalo and is a member of AIS and INFORMS.

P. Achuthan is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Amrita Vishwavidyapeetham. He is Professor Emeritus, IIT Madras, Chennai working there for 3 decades. He has taught at various levels,

guided researchers towards PhD, published profusely, research papers, various articles, translation of W.Pauli’s Quantum Mechanics from German, written books, edited proceedings of international conferences,… He has traveled widely visiting several academic institutions. While his mind is in Mathemat- ics his heart is in physics. He is actively engaged in particles and their fundamental interactions. His interests extend to and cover social, cultural and spiritual matters as well.

C. Warren Axelrod, Ph.D., is a senior consultant with Delta Risk, a consultancy specializing in cyber defense, resiliency and risk management. Previously, he was the chief privacy officer and business information security officer for US Trust, the private wealth management division of Bank of America. He was a co-founder of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center. Dr. Axelrod won the 2009 Michael Cangemi Best Book/Best Article Award for his article “Accounting for Value and Uncertainty in Security Metrics,” published in the ISACA Journal, Volume 6, 2008. He was hon- ored with the prestigious Information Security Executive (ISE) Luminary Leadership Award in 2007. He received a Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders Award in 2003.Dr. Axelrod has written three books, two on computer management, and numerous articles on information technology and information security topics. His third book is Outsourcing Information Security, published in 2004 by Artech House. His article “Investing in Software Resiliency” appeared in the September/October 2009 issue of CrossTalk magazine.He holds a Ph.D. in managerial economics from Cornell University, as well as an honors M.A. in economics and statistics and a first-class honors B.Sc. in electrical engineering, both from the University of Glasgow. He is certified as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Certified Information Security Manager.

Anup Kumar Bhattacharjee is a scientist in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. He obtained his Ph.D in Computer Science from BITS (TIFR). His main interests are in Application of Formal Methods in the Design of Safety-Critical Systems.

Rajarshi Chakraborty is a third-year doctoral student of management science and systems in the School of Management at the University at Buffalo. His research interests include Internet privacy, cloud computing, digital forensics, intellectual property rights, and emergency response management. Rajarshi received his MS in computer science and engineering from the University at Buffalo. He can be reached at [email protected].

Charulata Chaudhary is currently a Fourth Year Law student, BA LLB. (Five Year Integrated Course) at Rajiv Gandhi National Law University, Patiala, Punjab. Her research interests are in Criminal Law, Cyber Crimes and Constitutional Law. She has attended and presented articles and research papers at various national and international conferences and seminars. She can be contacted at charu.244@ gmail.com.

Qi Duan got his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University at Buffalo in September 2008. Currently he is a postdoctoral research associate in Department of Software Information Systems, University of North Carolina Charlotte. His research interest is network security.

M.S.Gaur is a Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur. he received his PhD from School of Electronics and Computer Science, Univer-

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sity of Southampton UK in 2004. His research interests are in Information Security, Network Attacks Simulation and Countermeasures, Network on Chip Modeling and Simulation. He has published widely in refereed conferences, journals, and edited volumes. he has given a number of invited talks in his areas of interest. He is Program Chair for RASDAT workshop which is conducted in conjunction with VLSI Design Conference in India. He is reviewer and TPC member of a number of conferences.

Kenneth Giuliani received his Ph.D. in cryptography at the University of Waterloo and has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. He has worked in industry for IBM, Motorola, Ministry of National Defence (Canada), Certicom, and Prata Technologies.

Sukumar Haldar is currently serving as a Senior Program Manager with One Call Medical Inc. He received his Masters degree in Science from Kumaoun University in India and a DBMS from Harvard University. He has also provided consultancy services in the area of Enterprise & Credit risk management to the leading financial firms in US, Far East, Europe and South-Asian markets. He is an active member of GARP, ISACA and served as an Honorary Chairman of the Business Advisory Council for National Congressional Committee.

Harvey S. Hyman received his law degree from University of Miami in 1993. He is admitted to practice law in the State of Florida, United States Appeals Court in Atlanta Georgia, and The United States Supreme Court. He is currently a PhD student at University of South Florida, College of Business, and Director of Software Development at a small research firm in Tampa, Florida.

Lakshmy K. V. is a Junior Research Fellow at TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore. She received M Sc degree in Mathematics from Govt. Victoria College in 2007. She is pursuing PhD in Cryptography.

Ishupal S. Kang is an undergraduate law student studying in fourth year of BA LLB (Hons.) course at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law. His primary research interests are in International Eco- nomic Law with focus on developing nations’ concerns in the multilateral trading regime, Intellectual Property Laws, especially Copyright and Trademark Laws and Cyberspace laws. He has won several prizes in various competitions like National Level Moot Courts, International Essay Competitions etc. He has attended and presented papers at national and international conferences and also has international publications to his credit.

Narayanankutty Karuppath is a faculty at the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University where he is at present teaching Modern Physics and Astrophysics. He took his M.Sc in physics from Sardar Patel University and PhD from Amrita University. His research interests include quantum phenomena, its applications (including quantum cryptography and computation) and implications, the enigma of time in physics, Cosmology and scientific philosophy. He has published several papers in his area of interest. He has more than 3 decades of research, teaching and industrial experience.

Rajbir Kaur is PhD Scholar in the Department of Computer Engineering, Malaviya National In- stitute of Technology Jaipur (Rajasthan), India. Her research interests are in Information Security and Simulation Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.

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Ponnurangam Kumaraguru ("PK"), is an Assistant Professor at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi. PK received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mel- lon University (CMU). PK's research interests include developing technological and multi-disciplinary solutions to reduce computer crime, information security, cyber crime, trust, and human computer inter- action. Of late, he has been working on Open Source Intelligence and analyzing online user-generated content to detect cyber crime. PK recently served as a Program Co-Chair for international conference on Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam (CEAS) and was on the Program Com- mittee of Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS). PK is also serving as a reviewer for International Journal of Information Security and ACM's Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT). For more information, visit http://www.iiitd.edu.in/~pk and PK can be reached at [email protected].

N.V. Narendra Kumar is a Research Scholar at STCS, TIFR. His research interests are in Informa- tion/Network/Computer Security, with special focus on Analysis of Cryptographic Protocols; Access Control: Policies, Models and Mechanisms; Malware Detection and Protection; Operating System Protection; and Virtualization.

Vijay Laxmi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur. She received her PhD from School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton UK in 2003. Her research interests are in Information Security, DRM Issues and Water Marking, Network on Chip Modeling and Simulation, and Algorithms. She has published widely in refereed conferences, journals, and edited volumes. She has given a number of invited talks in her areas of interest. She is reviewer and TPC member of a number of conferences.

Sindhu. M is a lecturer at TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Univer- sity, Coimbatore. She received M Sc degree in Mathematics from Govt. Victoria College in 2005 and MPhil Degree from Madurai Kamaraj University in 2008. She is pursuing PhD in Cryptography. Her research interests are Stream Ciphers, Block Ciphers and Linear Complexity

Himanshu Maheshwari has an MBA degree in Finance and MIS from the University of South Florida. He worked for JP Morgan Chase in India on various Operations, IT & Finance projects. Among these projects, he helped in the migration of processes to locations such as Mumbai and Manila. Currently, he is a financial Consultant for JP Morgan Chase working with HNI clients on money saving operations.

R.S. Mundada is leading Supercomputing and Information Security group at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication discipline from Nagpur University, Nagpur, India in 1979. He has expertise in design- ing secure networks and building large HPC clusters. He has number of publications to his credit in areas of High Performance Computing and Information Security. His current research interests are High performance Computing, Grid Computing and Information security.

C.S.R.C. Murthy is senior scientific officer in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. He is currently engaged in information security systems research and development. He received Bachelor of Technol- ogy degree in Electronics & Communication systems from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India in 1995. His research areas include cryptanalysis, intrusion detection systems, data

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leak prevention and web applications security. He has developed a number of software systems for information security enforcement and has served various committees on security audit. His current research works are on the study and improvements of TMTO cryptanalysis and development of faster cryptanalysis systems using High performance Computing.

V. Kumar Murty is Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. He is also the Director of the GANITA Lab. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Fields Institute. He is the author of more than 80 papers and two books. His research interests are in number theory, algebraic geometry and their applications to information technology.

Sajan Kumar S is a Research Associate at TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security, Amrita Vishwa Vidy- apeetham University, Coimbatore. He received M Sc degree in Computer Science from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus in 2006. His research interests are Cloud Computing Security, Intrusion Detection Systems and Application Level Security.

Vinod P. is Research Scholar in Department of Computer Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (Raj.), India. His research interests are in Information Security, Metamorphic Malware Analysis and Detection methods.

Amritha P.P. is an Assistant Professor at TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security, Amrita Vishwa Vidy- apeetham University, Coimbatore. She received her M Tech (Cyber Security) from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in 2009. She is pursuing PhD in Multimedia Security.

H. Raghav Rao is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor in the department of MSS, School of Management, SUNY Buffalo. His current research interests include Information Assurance, Security and Privacy Services and Emergency Response Systems. He completed his PhD at Purdue University.

Suja Ramachandran is working as Scientific Officer in Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, India. She received Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Calicut University in 2006 and Master of Technology degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Homi Bhabha National Institute in 2009. Her areas of interest include information security systems, high performance computing systems, database systems and web applications.

Haricharan Rengamani has done his Masters in Management Information Systems from Univer- sity at Buffalo. His adademic accomplishments and contribution to many projects nominated him for the coveted BETA 'Best Student Award' among all the WNY universities.Earlier he had completed his B.Tech in Information Technology from Vellore Institute of Technology,India.Before pursing his M.S, he was working as a Solution Definition Analyst earlier in a reputed IT firm and a certified Microsoft Technology Specialist,Microsoft Application Developer and ITIL V3.0. Currently he is working as a Lead Business Analyst for an IT firm. He writes many technical articles and participates activly in technical forums (MSDN,Code Project, DotnetGuru etc.,).

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Harshit Shah is a PhD candidate at Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. He is jointly advised by Prof. R. K. Shyamasundar (TIFR, Mumbai) and Prof. M. Sethumadhavan (Amrita School of Engineering). His research interests include static and dynamic techniques for program analysis.

Divya Shankar completed her Masters in Information Systems from State University of New York at Buffalo in 2009. Her research interests are in the areas of emergency response management systems, decision support systems and information assurance. She is currently working as a Business data analyst in a leading financial organization.

Rohitashva Sharma is working as Senior Scientific Officer in Supercomputing and Information Security Group at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication discipline from Rajasthan University, Jaipur, India in 1996. His research areas include web application security, secure information systems and data leak prevention. He has developed a number of software systems for monitoring and enforcement of information security policy in the organization. His current research interests are in the field of secure data storage to stop unauthorized access to information.

R.K. Shyamasundar a Ph.D.(Computer Science and Automation), from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore is a Senior Professor and JC Bose National Fellow at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and was the Founder Dean of the School of Technology and Computer Science. His principle areas of research are: Specification, Design and Verification of reactive and real-time systems, Programming Languages, Logics of programs, Formal methods, Computer and Network & Information Security. He is a Fellow IEEE , Fellow ACM and serves on IEEE Esterel Standards Committee. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and Fellow of TWAS (Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Trieste.)

Chungath Srinivasan is a lecturer at TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore. He received M Sc degree in Mathematics from Govt. Victoria College in 2005. He is pursuing PhD in Cryptography

Lalith Suresh P. is a Post Graduate at Portugal. He completed his B.Tech in Computer Engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur in 2010. His research interests are in the area of Network Simulation and Computer Networking.

Gireesh Kumar T. received his M Tech (Computer and Information Science) from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, Kerala, in 2002. He is currently pursuing PhD (Artificial Intel- ligence) Anna University, Chennai. He is now an Assistant Professor (Sr. Grade) with TIFAC CORE in Cyber Security at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore. His research interests are artificial intelligence, machine learning and algorithms.

Asoke K Talukder is the Chief Scientific Officer at Geschickten Solutions, Bangalore and Adjunct Faculty at ABV Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He received

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M.Sc in Biophysics and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Calcutta University and IIIT Bangalore in 1976 and 2008 respectively. His research interests are in Cloud Computing, Security & Scalability, and Computational Quantitative Biology. He is associated with both in Education and Industry.

Shambhu Upadhyaya received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Univer- sity of Newcastle, Australia in 1987. He is currently a professor of computer science and engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research interests are computer security, information assurance, fault-tolerant computing, distributed systems and reliability. His research has been funded by National Science Foundation, U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, DARPA and National Security Agency.

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