ISEA ISAP 2026

ISEA–ISAP 2026

Fifth ISEA International Conference on Security and Privacy 2026

January 16–18, 2026 | IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

ISEA–ISAP 2026

Fifth ISEA International Conference on Security and Privacy 2026

January 16–18, 2026 | IIT Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Conference Schedule

  • 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM
  • Registration & Breakfast
  • 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
  • Inauguration
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
  • Tea break
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
  • KEYNOTE

Talk 1: AI and Cyber Security

Prof. Sandeep K. Shukla

Session Chair: Prof. Urbi Chatterjee
  • 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
  • CTF HACKATHON

Capture The Flag

Session Chair: Prof. Chester Rebeiro
  • 11:30 AM – 4:30 PM
  • POSTER PRESENTATION
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
  • PANEL DISCUSSION

Topic: Cybersecurity Education

Session Chair: Ms. Tulika Pandey

  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Lunch
  • 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
  • PAPER PRESENTATION (7)
Session Chair: Prof. Patanjali SLPSK
  • 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
  • CTF HACKATHON

Capture The Flag

Session Chair: Prof. Chester Rebeiro
  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM
  • Tea break & networking
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
  • TUTORIAL 1
Practical IoT & Edge-Device Security from Silicon to Cloud

By Prof. Satyajit Das (IIT Guwahati)

Session Chair: Prof. Urbi Chatterjee
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
  • CTF HACKATHON

Capture The Flag

Session Chair: Prof. Chester Rebeiro

  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
  • POSTER PRESENTATION
Poster Presentation Evaluation

At a Glance​

  • WORKSHOPS

8 × 2h

  • PAPER PRESENTATIONS
10 × 18 min
  • PANEL DISCUSSION
2 × 1h
  • POSTER PRESENTATIONS
13
  • KEYNOTE LECTURES

8

  • CTF HACKATHON
  • TUTORIALS
5 × 1h

Panel Topic: Cybersecurity Education

Name Session Role Designation Institution
Tulika Pandey Session Chair Senior Director MeitY
Vinayak Godse Panelist CEO DSCI
Shankar Raman Panelist CEO IITM Pravartak
Sandeep Shukla Panelist Director IIIT Hyderabad
Shweta Agrawal Panelist Professor IIT Madras
Urbi Chatterjee Panelist Assistant Professor IIT Kanpur

Paper Presentations: Day 01

S. No. Paper Title Authors
1 An efficient decentralized and verifiable stake voting system Amalan Antony, Pavithra Gurushankar
2 Breaking Boundaries: A Security Analysis of Android’s IPC Vulnerabilities Anirudh Suri, Anil Saini and Manoj Singh Gaur
3 Dissecting ValleyRAT: From Analysis to Memory-Centric Detection Kartik Iyer, Parag Rughani and Shaurya Shaurya
4 Federated Malware Detection across PE and non-PE File Formats Niharika Pagare and Dr. Mukti Padhya
5 An Efficient Blockchain-based E-voting Protocol with Improved Voter Anonymity Bhakti Dhorajiya, Arti Dhiman and Souradyuti Paul
6 Privacy Technologies: Sectoral Deployments and Quantum Risks Veniamin Boiarkin and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan
7 Post-Quantum Security Readiness Across Digital Supply Chains Tooba Qasim, Veniamin Boiarkin, and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
  • Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
  • KEYNOTE
Talk 2: Security of LLMs vs. Using LLMs for Hardware Security

Prof. Avi Mendelson

Session Chair: Sukumar Nandi

  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
  • CTF HACKATHON

Capture The Flag

Session Chair: Chester Rebeiro
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
  • KEYNOTE

Talk 3: AI and Forensics: Where We Are and the Shape of What’s Next

Prof. Dr. Frank Breitinger

Session Chair: Dr. Parag Rughani

  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
  • Tea break
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
  • KEYNOTE

Talk 4: Translating Cybersecurity Security Research & Innovation to Commercialisation – Ideas-to-Market

Prof. Muttukrishnan Rajarajan

Session Chair: Prof. Manoj Singh Gaur
  • 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
  • CTF HACKATHON

Capture The Flag

Session Chair: Prof. Chester Rebeiro

  • 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM
  • POSTER PRESENTATION
  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
  • PANEL DISCUSSION
Topic: Emerging trends in Cybersecurity
Session Chair: N.Subramanian
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Lunch
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
  • KEYNOTE
Talk 5: Collaborative Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Dr. Surya Nepal

Session Chair: Prof. Kunal Kishore Korgaonkar
  • 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
  • CTF HACKATHON

Capture The Flag

Session Chair: Prof. Chester Rebeiro
  • 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
  • PAPER PRESENTATION (3)
Session Chair: Prof. Alwyn Roshan Pais
  • 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
  • WORKSHOP 2

Crypto Standards, Certification, and User expectation 

By Dr. Abey Jacob, M.R Muralidharan
(Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
(C-DAC), Standardization Testing and Quality
Certification (STQC))

Session Chair: Sankaranarayanan B
  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM
  • Tea break & networking
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
  • TUTORIAL 2

Design and Analysis of User Authentication Protocols

By Dr. Awaneesh & Prof. Manoj Mishra (IIT Roorkee)

Session Chair: Jaimandeep Singh
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
  • TUTORIAL 3

Observing and Analyzing Microarchitectural Timing Behavior Using eBPF for System Security

By Ankit Pulkit, Smita Naval and Vijay Laxmi (Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur (MNIT))

Session Chair: Prof. Gnanambikai
Krishnakumar

  • 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM
  • Poster & Hackathon Prize Distribution Ceremony
  • 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
  • Cultural Events
  • 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
  • Gala Dinner

At a Glance​

  • WORKSHOPS

8 × 2h

  • PAPER PRESENTATIONS
10 × 18 min
  • PANEL DISCUSSION
2 × 1h
  • POSTER PRESENTATIONS
13
  • KEYNOTE LECTURES

8

  • CTF HACKATHON
  • TUTORIALS
5 × 1h

Panel Topic: Emerging trends in Cybersecurity

Name Session Role Designation Institution
N. Subramanian Session Chair Executive Director SETS
Avi Mendelson Panelist Professor Technion
Surya Nepal Panelist Senior Principal Research Scientist CSIRO Data61
Frank Breitinger Panelist Professor University of Augsburg
Muttukrishnan Rajarajan Panelist Director Institute for Cyber Security City, University of London
Manoj Singh Gaur Panelist Director IIT Jammu

Paper Presentations: Day 02

S. No. Paper Title Authors
1 Security in the Era of Perceptive Networks: A Comprehensive Taxonomic Framework for Integrated Sensing and Communication Security Chandra Thapa and Surya Nepal
2 Hidden Hybrid Symmetric Key Cipher Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar
3 Challenges in Detecting Cryptographic Backdoor Attacks on Neural Networks Subhadeep Dalui, Shubhi Shukla, and Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
  • Breakfast
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
  • KEYNOTE
Talk 6: Trust on Trusted Architectures? Trusted by Design, Broken by Side Channels

Prof. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

Session Chair: Prof. Urbi Chatterjee
  • 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
  • WORKSHOP

Kaspersky Interactive Protection Simulation (KIPS)

By Arun Gantayat
Session Chair: Ritwik Badola
  • 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
  • KEYNOTE
Talk 7: Hidden Hybrid Symmetric Key Cipher
Prof. Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar
Session Chair: Prof. Santanu Sarkar
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM
  • Tea break
  • 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
  • WORKSHOP 1
Blockchain-based FinTech Applications
By Prof. Souradyuti Paul (IIT Bhilai)

Session Chair: Rashmi P Sarode

  • 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
  • WORKSHOP 3

AI Assisted Security Operations & Threat Hunting

By Dr. Prabaharan Poornachandran, Bishal Kumar Prasad and Manu R Krishnan (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham)

Session Chair: Dr. Ch A S Murty
  • 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
  • WORKSHOP 4
Lattice-based Constructions: Between Theory and Practice 

By Prof. Sugata Gangopadhyay, Ali Raya (IIT Roorkee)

Session Chair: Prof. Santanu Sarkar

  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
  • Lunch
  • 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
  • WORKSHOP 5
Graph Neural Networks for Cyber Forensics: Advanced Pattern Detection in Transaction Networks
By Ashwin Ganesan, Trishie Sharma, Prof. John Augustine (IIT Madras)
Session Chair: Prof. Souradyuti Paul
  • 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
  • WORKSHOP 6

Formal Verification of DigiLocker with Tamarin Prover

By Prof. Raghvendra Singh Rohit(IIT Roorkee)
Session Chair: Pallavi Borkar
  • 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
  • WORKSHOP 7
Mobile Security Tools: Hands-on Exploration of Threats, Analysis, and Defense Mechanisms
By Amita Jangid, Dr. Anil Saini, Madhukar Raina (IIT Jammu)

Session Chair: Dr. Noor Mahammad SK

  • 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM
  • WORKSHOP 8
Hands-on Digital Forensics using Free and Open Source Tools
By Prof. Modhuparna Manna(National Forensic Sciences University (NFSU), Gujarat)
Session Chair: Session Chair – Jaimandeep Singh
  • 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM
  • Tea break & networking
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
  • TUTORIAL 4

Tutorial on Hardware Security Standards

By Smt. A. Suganya (Society for Electronic Transactions and Security (SETS))

Session Chair: Annapurna Valiveti
  • 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
  • TUTORIAL 5
Balancing Containment and Privacy During Incident Response
By Dr. Prabaharan Poornachandran, Arjun V and Jishnu A (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham)
Session Chair: Prof. Chester Rebeiro

At a Glance​

  • WORKSHOPS

8 × 2h

  • PAPER PRESENTATIONS
10 × 18 min
  • PANEL DISCUSSION
2 × 1h
  • POSTER PRESENTATIONS
13
  • KEYNOTE LECTURES

8

  • CTF HACKATHON
  • TUTORIALS
5 × 1h
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