eHaCON 2020

Website: http://ehcon.in/ 

Date: October 3 - 4 , 2020 and October 9 - 10, 2020

eHaCON 2020 International Ethical Hacking Conference, the 3rd eHaCON in the series, organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Institute of Engineering and Management (IEM), Kolkata and successfully led by Prof. Dr. Mohuya Chakraborty, IEM, India. The conference had three events – DeCipher, Panel Discussion and Three Minutes Scholarly Thesis (3MST) Presentation. DeCipher was an online 12-hour coding hackathon hosted by CodeChef where we got more than 900 teams. The topics of the panel discussion were Role of Cybersecurity Analyst in Post COVID Era (Day 1) and Are Businesses Prepared to Return to Work Security Risks (Day 2). 

In eHaCON 2019 we were glad to have Prof. Dr. Satyajit Chakrabarti, IEM, India and Dr. Amlan Kusum Nayak, IEM, India as Patrons; Prof. Dr. Satyajit Chakrabarti, IEM, India and Prof. Dr. Mohuya Chakraborty, IEM, India as General Chairs. The Conference Chair Conveners were Prof. Dr. Indraneel Mukhopadhyay, IEM, India, Prof. Dr. Moutushi Singh, IEM, India and Prof. Arup Kumar Chattopadhyay, IEM, India.

The Keynote speakers, including eminent professors from various universities and Organizations, were Dr. Moshe Y Vardi (Winner of the 2021 Donald E. Knuth Prize, Rice University), Dr. João Manuel R.S. Tavares (Editor In Chief: Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering at Taylor & Francis Group, University of Porto, Portugal), Dr. Biplab Sikdar (National University of Singapore), Dr. Steve Simpson (Tacoma Community College, Highline College, American Public University), Mr. Rohit Sarkar (Co-Founder, Distronix), Mr. Kirit Sankar Gupta (Information Security Specialist, Apple) and Mr. Abhishek Mitra (Security Monitoring Analyst at KPMG).