VENKATA SAI CHARAN PUTREVU
Prime Ministers Research Fellow | C3i Research Fellow | Cyber Security Researcher and Technology Enthusiast, currently pursuing Ph.D. in CSE @ Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK)
WORK EXPERIENCE
CISCO Systems India Pvt Ltd (Bengaluru) - In N7k Team as a Software Developer (2016-17) - Practically worked on protocols like OSPF, BFD, GRE, OTV, ACL on Nexus 7000 &7700 data centre switches.
DELL-RSA - Research Intern (2018-19) - RSA Archer which is an eGRC platform which provides an efficient, collaborative enterprise governance, risk and compliance solutions.
Yazali Farmers Producer Company - Intern (April-July,2019) - This particular FPO is working to make agriculture profitable in villages using advanced technology, there by supporting sustainable economy with high happiness index and creating self sustained and self reliant villages.
PATENTS
"SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KERNEL-LEVEL ACTIVE DARKNET MONITORING IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK.” Venkata Sai Charan P, Gowtham R, Sandeep K Shukla, Mohan Anand P, Hrushikesh CNV, Indian Patent No. 202314036144: Indian Patent Office (IPO). 24 November 2022. (GRANTED-506825)
"SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR KERNEL-LEVEL ACTIVE DARKNET MONITORING IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK.” Venkata Sai Charan P, Gowtham R, Sandeep K Shukla, Mohan Anand P, Hrushikesh CNV, US Patent Application No. 18/322,626 : USPTO. 3 January 2023.
“SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE MASKING-BASED DECEPTION ORCHESTRATION”. Venkata Sai Charan P, Subhasis M, Subhajit M, Rani N, A Vaid, Chunduri H, Anand P. M., & Shukla, S. K. Indian Patent Application No: 202411006680. 2 Feb 2024.
“SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE MASKING-BASED DECEPTION ORCHESTRATION”. Venkata Sai Charan P, Subhasis M, Subhajit M, Rani N, A Vaid, Chunduri H, Anand P. M., & Shukla, S. K. US Patent Application No: 63/627,859 . 2 Feb 2024
"SYSTEM FOR EARLY DETECTION AND TERMINATION OF RANSOMWARE AND METHOD THEREOF." Mohan Anand P, Venkata Sai Charan P, Hrushikesh CNV, Sandeep K Shukla, US Patent Application No.63/517,119 (Provisional) : USPTO. 3 August 2023.
"SYSTEM FOR EARLY DETECTION AND TERMINATION OF RANSOMWARE AND METHOD THEREOF." Mohan Anand P, Venkata Sai Charan P, Hrushikesh CNV, Sandeep K Shukla, Indian Patent Application No. 202311051892 (Provisional) : Indian Patent Office (IPO). 2 August 2023.
Publications
Journals:
"DKaaS: DARK-KERNEL as a Service for Active Cyber Threat Intelligence". Charan, P. S., Ratnakaram, G., Chunduri, H., Anand, P. M., & Shukla, S. K. (2023). Computers & Security, 103329.
"HiPeR - Early Detection of a Ransomware Attack using Hardware Performance Counters". P. Mohan Anand, P.V. Sai Charan, and Sandeep K Shukla. 2023. Digital Threats: Research and Practice. doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3608484
"ADAPT: Adaptive Camouflage Based Deception Orchestration For Trapping Advanced Persistent Threats". P.V. Sai Charan et al. Digital Threats: Research and Practice (2024). https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3651991
Conference Proceedings:
"From Text to MITRE Techniques: Exploring the Malicious Use of Large Language Models for Generating Cyber Attack Payloads". Charan, P. V., Chunduri, H., Anand, P. M., & Shukla, S. K. (2023). arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.15336.
"A Framework for Advanced Persistent Threat Attribution using Zachman Ontology". Putrevu, V. S. C., Chunduri, H., Putrevu, M. A., & Shukla, S. (2023, June). In European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity (EICC-23) Conference (pp. 34-41).
"Early Detection of Ransomware Activity based on Hardware Performance Counters". Mohan Anand Putrevu, Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, and Sandeep Kumar Shukla. 2023. In 2023 Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 10–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579375.3579377
"A comprehensive API call analysis for detecting Windows-based ransomware." Anand, P. Mohan, PV Sai Charan, and Sandeep K. Shukla. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR). IEEE, 2022. (Best Student Paper Award)
"DOTMUG: A Threat Model for Target Specific APT Attacks–Misusing Google Teachable Machine." Charan, PV Sai, et al. In 2022 10th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (ISDFS). IEEE, 2022.
"DARK-KERNEL: Design and Implementation of a Kernel Level Active Darknet Sensor". Venkata Sai Charan Putrevu, Gowtham Ratnakaram, and Sandeep Shukla. 2022. In Proceedings of the 2022 European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 42–48. https://doi.org/10.1145/3528580.3532838
"DMAPT: Study of Data Mining and Machine Learning Techniques in Advanced Persistent Threat Attribution and Detection". Charan, PV Sai, P. Mohan Anand, and Sandeep K. Shukla. Data Mining. IntechOpen, 2021.
"A Multi Class Classification for Detection of IoT Botnet Malware." Chunduri, Hrushikesh, T. Gireesh Kumar, and PV Sai Charan. International Conference on Computing Science, Communication and Security. Springer, Cham, 2021. (Best Paper Award)
"Detecting Word Based DGA Domains Using Ensemble Models." Charan, PV Sai, Sandeep K. Shukla, and P. Mohan Anand. International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security. Springer, Cham, 2020.
"An ensemble approach for algorithmically generated domain name detection using statistical and lexical analysis." Anand, P. Mohan, T. Gireesh Kumar, and PV Sai Charan. Procedia Computer Science 171 (2020): 1129-1136.
"Advance persistent threat detection using long short term memory (LSTM) neural networks." Charan, PV Sai, T. Gireesh Kumar, and P. Mohan Anand. " International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computer Engineering. Springer, Singapore, 2019.
"Abnormal User Pattern Detection Using Semi-structured Server Log File Analysis." Charan, PV Sai. Smart Intelligent Computing and Applications. Springer, Singapore, 2019. 97-105.
"Addressing cold start problem in recommendation system using custom built hadoop ecosystem." Charan, PV Sai, P. Ravi Kumar, and P. Mohan Anand. 2018 Second International Conference on Inventive Communication and Computational Technologies (ICICCT). IEEE, 2018.
List of My Co-Authors/ Mentors
Prof. Sandeep Kumar Shukla - Professor, Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Prof. T.V. Prabhakar - Emeritus Fellow & Ex: Professor @ Computer Science and Engineering @ IIT- Kanpur
Prof. M. Sethumadhavan - Head & Professor @ TIFAC-CORE in Cyber Security, Amrita Viswa Vidyapeetham
Prof. Gireesh Kumar T - Associate Professor @ CSE, Amrita Viswa VidyaPeetham
Dr. Saurabh Srivastava - Assistant Professor @ CSE, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad
P. Mohan Anand - Research Scholar @ CSE, IIT- Kanpur
Naveen Ezio - Research Scientist @ Trellix, Bangalore
Sumit Lahari - Research Scholar @ CSE, IIT- Kanpur
Hrushikesh Chunduri - Research Scholar @CSE, IIT-Kanpur
TEaching Assistantship
Teaching Assistant for ESC 111/2 : Fundamentals of Computing - I/II (Mar 2023 - July 2023)
PMRF Tutor for NPTEL Course: Problem Solving Through Programming In C (Aug 2022 - Oct 2022) - TA Class Recordings
Teaching Assistant for CS 658: Malware Analysis and Intrusion Detection (Jan 2022 - May 2022)
PMRF Teachings(Online Content): Advanced Persistent Threats-Attribution & Detection (2021)
Teaching Assistant for CS 631: Cyber Security Of Critical Infrastructures ( Aug 2021- Dec 2021)
Teaching Assistant for CS 628: Computer System Security (Jan 2021-June 2021)
Teaching Assistant for CS 455: Software Engineering (Jan 2020-June 2020)
Professional Activities
Conference/Journal Reviewed :
Computers and Security
CSCML-2023 : The International Symposium on Cyber Security, Cryptology and Machine Learning (CSCML)
ACM SAC 2023: The ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing
Course Work @ IITK
MALWARE ANALYSIS AND INTRUSION DETECTION (CS 698M) - A
CYBER SECURITY OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES (CS 631A) - B
SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE (CS 654A) - A
COMPUTER SYSTEMS SECURITY (CS 628A) - B
Total CGPA : 9.0/10.0
Courses Audited : Introduction to Machine Learning (CS 771)
Achievements
Best Student Papaer Award for "A Comprehensive API Call Analysis for Detecting Windows-Based Ransomware” @ IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE-CSR)
Best Paper Award for "A Multi Class Classification for Detection of IoT Botnet Malware" @ International conference on computing science, communication and security (COMS-2021)
Completed Certified Ethical Hacker Certification(CEHV9) in 2018 - Cert.No: ECC8034951627
DELL “Inspire Award” for Unmatched Quality performance in TeamHercules @ DELL-RSA, Bangalore, 2019
DELL “Shout out award” for Excellent contribution to Advanced Elastic Search Automation @DELL-RSA, 2019
Zonal Winner of IBNC (Indian Biggest Networking championship) from combined Andhra Pradesh & Telangana zone.
ONLINE COURSES
Completed online course on “ Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies” offered by PRINCETON UNIVERSITY through Coursera.
Completed online course on “LFS171x: Blockchain for Business - An Introduction to Hyperledger Technologies “ offered by LinuxFoundationX through edx.
Completed online training course “Introduction to Database” offered by STANFORD UNIVERSITY with Distinction (Coursera).
Completed online training course “Introduction to Computer Networking” offered by STANFORD UNIVERSITY(Coursera).
Completed Online courses “Introduction to Map Reduce Programing” and “Hadoop Fundamentals” offered by Big data university and achieved IBM EXPLORER Badge.
Completed online course on “CompTIA Security+” offered by CYBRARY.
Resources
Comprehensive Examination - Cleared on 14 Nov 2020 - Slides
State of the ART Seminar (SOTA) - Cleared on 7 May 2021 - Slides
Talk at IIT(ISM)-Dhanbad on the occasion of Cyber Jagrukta Diwas (6 November 2021)- Link
Talk at IIT(ISM)-Dhanbad on the occasion of Cyber Jagruktha Diwas (7 January 2022) - Link
PMRF Teachings- Part:1 -- Advanced Persistent Threat Detection and Attribution Video Playlist
PMRF Teachings- Part:2 -- Problem Solving Though Programming in C (NPTEL COURSE Tutorial Class Recordings)
Talk for ATAL Faculty Development Program by AICTE @ Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore (27 February 2023)
Talk at Amrita Center for Cyber Security Systems and Networks @ Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri (4 March 2023)
Talk at Indian Port Association (IPA, which works under the supervisory control of Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways) on the occasion of Cyber Jagurukta Diwas organized by C3i Hub (5 April 2023)
Talk at C3i Hub Knowledge Sharing Session @ KD101, IIT-Kanpur (28 April 2023)
Talk at European Interdisciplinary Cyber Security Conference (EICC 2023) -- 15 June 2023
Reach Me out @ E5, First Floor, C3i Center, IIT Kanpur
Contact : pvcharan@cse.iitk.ac.in, pvcharan@iitk.ac.in