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Chhagan Lal, PhD
Researcher in Cybersecurity
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience (CISaR) group
Dept. of Information Security and Communication Technology.
NTNU, Norway
Email: chhagan.lal@ntnu.no, chhagan.iiita@gmail.com
Skype ID: c.lal
Experience/Knowledge of
Results-oriented cybersecurity professional with 8+ years of experience and a recent achievement of the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP). Adept at implementing robust security measures to safeguard sensitive information and mitigate cyber threats. I posses comprehensive theoretical and practical knowledge of different areas within the Cybersecurity domain, these includes:
Network Security: I have designed and implemented various new attacks and defenses for the below mentioned networking domains.
Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0,
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS)
Network Monitoring and Threat Detection In-depth
Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Information Centric Networking (ICN).
Machine Learning for cybersecurity and resilience
Threat and attack analysis models (STRIDE, DREAD, Attack Trees/Graphs, and Kill Chain)
Risk analysis and management (IRAM2)
IEC 104, IEC 61850 and IEC 62443 communication protocols
Blockchain Technologies and Smart contracts
PROJECT PARTICIPATIONS
Current Project:
EU DIGITAL-ECCC-2022-CYBER-03, CYBERUNITY - Community for Integrating and Opening Cyber Range Infrastructures that Build an Interoperable Cross- Domain and Cross-Sector Cyber Range Federation (2024-2026)
Previous Projects:
In past, I was actively involved (technical and administrative activities) in the following EU projects:
European Commission, H2020-SU-SEC-2018, LOCARD - Lawful evidence collecting and continuity platform development (H2020 2019-2022).
European Commission, ICT-08-H2020, COLLABS - A COmprehensive cyber-intelligence framework for resilient coLLABorative manufacturing Systems, 2019-2022.
European Commission, H2020-ICT30-2015 (Internet of Things and Platforms for Connected Smart Objects), TagItSmart! - Smart Tags driven service platform for enabling ecosystems of connected objects, 2016-2019.
European Commission, EU-India Research and Innovation Partnership, REACH - Rural broadband internEt Access using Cooperative mesh networking in witHe spectrum, 2016-2019.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVTIES
Journal Reviewer: Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE), Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IEEE), Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (IEEE), Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE), Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE), Computer Communications (Elsevier), Computer Networks (Elsevier), Wireless Networks (Springer), Pervasive and Mobile Computing (Elsevier), Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), and many more.
Program Chair: ACM WiSec 2017 (Poster/Demo Chair)
Publicity Chair: ACNS 2020, AIoTS 2020, AIBlock 2020, IoT-SECFOR 2020, IoT-SECFOR 2019, ACM WiSec 2017, SEMS 2017, SIN' 17, scsp-w 2016, ICISS-2016
Program Committee Member: DevSecOpsRO2024, ARES 2023, IEEE CPS-Sec 2023, BLOCKCHAIN'21, IoT-SECFOR 2021, AIoTS 2020, AIBlock 2020, IoT-SECFOR 2020, IoT-SECFOR 2020, IoT-SECFOR 2018, ICCST 2017, IEEE CNS - SPA 2017, SEMS 2017, SSIC-2017, APS-CPS-17, ICCST-2017, SecCPS 2017