Trainings | Shankar Karuppayah

OpenSOC SEA-NREN Initiative: Empowering Research Networks Against Cyber Threats

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

An APNIC ISIF Asia grant project to support emerging National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) in Southeast Asia in establishing Security Operations Centre (SOC) capabilities using open-source technologies.

Implemented through BitRanger and supported through the ISIF Asia Grants programme of the APNIC Foundation, the initiative covers participating communities in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, and Timor-Leste. It focuses on building a collaborative framework that enables participating networks to monitor threats, share threat intelligence, and strengthen cybersecurity resilience across regional research and education infrastructures, including:

Building practical SOC operational capabilities
Training NREN cybersecurity personnel
Deploying pilot Security Operations Centres
Establishing collaborative threat intelligence capabilities and sharing Indicators of Compromise
Integrating honeypot and network telescope observations
Developing SOC deployment toolkits and playbooks
Strengthening cybersecurity policies associated with SOC operations

Consultancy Project (Principal Consultant).

Cybersecurity Awareness Training

Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A full-day awareness training program crafted to upskill members of an academic institution’s in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Consultancy Project (Trainer).

Embedded Systems Upskilling Program For Computer Science/Engineering Graduates

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

A three-month program crafted to upskill existing industry engineers with knowledge on embedded systems that is highly in demand within the manufacturing industries in Penang, Malaysia.

Industry Grant (Trainer).

SecureAsi@ v2.0

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

An EU funded-project to conduct a 5-day Hands-on Ethical Hacking Workshop for members of National Research Education Networks within AsiaConnect.

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and Malaysian Research and Education Network (MYREN) organized and conducted the SecureAsi@ v2.0 Advanced Security training workshop for year 2018 in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia from 10th December till 14th December 2018.

The proposed workshop was aimed at bringing Asi@Connect partners’ network engineers and security administrators to the level qualified for the operation & management of network for their NRENs and therefore promote international collaborations as well as Asi@Connect applications.

As more and more security breaches being reported throughout the globe, it is such necessary that NRENs are more equipped to proactively identify potential security issues in their network BEFORE they are being exploited by hackers and malware. For that reason, this workshop provided a combination of theoretical and practical knowledge/experience to the participants of the workshop in terms of a more secure NREN.

USM provided two of its security experts and engaged with Technical University of Darmstadt (TUD) Germany to invite another expert in the field of Cyber Security to conduct the workshop over a period of five (5) days. The plan for the workshop was jointly developed by USM and TUD.

The objectives of the conducted workshop were:

To provide an overview of Cybersecurity.
To familiarize with concepts of malware, botnet, social engineering and other threats.
To learn the latest Internet security techniques, firewalls etc.
To provide a basic knowledge of ethical hacking using Kali Linux.

Instructors:

Dr. Shankar Karuppayah
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selvakumar Manickam
Leon Böck

DISTRIBUTED AND CLOUD-BASED NETWORK DEFENSE SYSTEM FOR NRENS

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 00:00:00 +0000

An EU funded-project to setup a distributed botnet monitoring mechanism as well as conduct capacity building for the NREN members.

This EU/AsiaConnect funded-project aims to investigate and deploy distributed botnet monitoring nodes in the NREN networks of the collaborators (MY, BD, ID and PH). Besides that, this project is also responsible to conduct two series of workshops (capacity building) in the domain of cyber security and botnets.

Project Duration: 01/06/2018-31/05/2022

Funding: RM 408,118.19 (External Agency, International)

Project Member:

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wan Tat Chee (PI)
Ms. Chong Yung Wey
Dr. Mohammed F.r. Anbar
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selvakumar Manickam
Dr. Shankar Karuppayah

Publications: (to be added)

SecureAsi@

Mon, 23 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

An EU funded-project to conduct a 3-day Hands-on Ethical Hacking Workshop for members of National Research Education Networks within AsiaConnect.

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and Malaysian Research and Education Network (MYREN) organized and conducted the SecureAsi@ workshop for year 2017 in Cyberjaya, Malaysia from 23rd October till 25th October 2017.

USM and MYREN provided two of its security experts and engaged with University of Hamburg (UH), Germany to invite another expert in the field of Cyber Security to conduct the workshop over a period of three (3) days. The plan for the workshop was jointly developed by USM, MYREN, and UH.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

The objectives of the conducted workshop was:

To provide an overview of Cybersecurity.
To familiarize with concepts of malware, botnet, social engineering and other threats.
To learn the latest Internet security techniques, firewalls etc.
To provide a basic knowledge of ethical hacking using Kali Linux.

Instructors:

Dr. Shankar Karuppayah
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selvakumar Manickam
Prof. Dr. Mathias Fischer