The APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) plans to collaborate with Stevens Institute, USA, to form a research group and develop innovative solutions to tackle attacks on Internet-based systems.
As part of this, an international conference is scheduled on October 12 in Thiruvananthapuram. Resource persons from Stevens Institute are scheduled to participate, a press note issued here said.
The rapid growth in Internet connectivity, mobile computing, IoT (Internet of Things) and cyber-physical systems has a great impact on applications including e-governance, connected healthcare, financial systems, and tactical networks.
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Persistent attacks on such complex networked systems continue to expose their vulnerabilities. Advanced persistent threats (APT), social engineering attacks, and denial of service attacks exploit software, hardware, socio-cultural, and policy weaknesses, the press note said.
Therefore the design, analysis, development and deployment of trusted systems continue to pose major challenges to the technical, policy and consumer communities.
The collaborative workshop between KTU and the Stevens Institute of Technology will identify the key R&D, innovation, entrepreneurship, education and training challenges, and opportunities presented by current and next generation trusted systems, the press note said.
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A research and discussion group will be formulated as the output of this workshop, which will work in these areas.
Such a collaboration has greater importance in the present scenario of increased attacks on Indian websites, KTU pro-vice chancellor M. Abdul Rahman has said.