Sashank Dara, Ph.D

CTO

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India22 yrs 7 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 22+ years of experience in Cyber Security.
  • Co-inventor of five US patents.
  • Published numerous research papers in top conferences.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cyber Security expert with extensive experience in product development and risk management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cyber SecurityGovernance Risk And ComplianceTeachingMachine LearningIntrusion DetectionCryptographyCloud SecuritySoftware DevelopmentRisk ManagementFirewall ManagementNetwork Management

Other Skills

Application DevelopmentApplication SecurityArtificial Intelligence (AI)Breach DetectionCCisco TechnologiesCyber Threat Hunting (CTH)Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)Data PrivacyData SecurityDistributed TechnologiesElasticSearchFirewallsGuest LecturingHigher Education Teaching

About

Chief Technology Officer(CTO) , Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) & Cofounder at Seconize.Seasoned Cyber Security Technologist and Leader.1. 22+ years of extensive experience in Cyber Security R&D and Consulting. 2. PhD in Cyber Security from IIIT-Bangalore.3. Co Inventor of Five US patents ( and 3 IETF Drafts).4. Trusted Security Consultant and Adviser for Top Companies in FinTech, EdTech, IT/ITes, Academic, Real estate Domains. 5. Published more than dozen research papers at IEEE, LNCS conferences. 6. Prolific Speaker at Security conferences and Invited talks. Specialties: Cyber Risk Management, Security Architecture, Security Posture and Performance Management, Cloud Security, Applied Cryptography, Data Privacy Preserving Computations, Security Management, Network Security, Security Advocacy, Security Usability, NFV Security, Security Architecture, Threat Intelligence, REST API Security

Experience

22 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 10 mos
Average Tenure
8 yrs 8 mos
Current Experience

Birla institute of technology and science, pilani

Assistant Professor

Apr 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

  • Teaching is one of my passions always and great way to give back to society. Was teaching Cyber Security courses for Senior Working Professionals for their WILP programs conducted on weekends !
Cyber SecurityTeachingWILP Programs

Seconize

CTO, CISO & Cofounder

Oct 2017Present · 8 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru

  • As a Cofounder CTO responsible for the technology strategy , product engineering of flagship product Seconize DeRisk Center. It is a full suite Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) product .
Governance Risk and ComplianceCyber SecurityTechnology StrategyProduct Engineering

Cisco

2 roles

Technical Leader

Promoted

May 2015Sep 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Project: Breach Detection Splunk app
  • This is a cutting edge application to detect "intrusion kill chains " in the massive amount of events that get generated from different devices. Complete ownership from concept,ideation till delivery of the app.
  • Project: SnortoSphere
  • This is to augment advance machine learning capabilities into Snort by integrating it with Stratosphere IPS which is flow based.
  • Project : "Proof of Transit"
  • Instrumental in inventing cryptographic protocols for proving the transit path of packets in a network. This is highly critical in SDN/NFV networks where customers wanted solid proof that their packets in fact went through all the services they have opted for. This is part of larger tech fund project called "Inband-OAM". This work resulted in 4 US Patents and 2 Internet Draft apart from an open source implementation of the technology (FD.io)
  • Project: Privacy Guard
  • This is an innovation project (semi finalist in internal innovation challenge). To use advanced cryptographic technology called "Secure Multiparty Computation" in order to provide cloud data privacy.
  • Many other initiatives for security innovation , also the co-chair for driving large internal security conference called SecCon's regional edition
Breach DetectionMachine LearningCryptographySecurity InnovationCyber Security

Software Engineer

May 2010Apr 2015 · 4 yrs 11 mos

  • Project : "Access Risk Management" (SBG's Innovation Tech Fund Winner)
  • Responsibilities: Complete ownership of pitching the idea, getting funding, leading a small team, till delivery of the proof-of-concept of this idea. This involves everything that takes to "Make-it-happen" right from technical architecture, research, design to interacting and influencing multiple teams across multiple functions like sales, marketing, product managers, engineers, architects. Portrayed leadership role in delivering this project from scratch.
  • Project : Software Defect Prediction
  • This is collaboration project with University of Waterloo Professor Lin Tan. This involves applying machine learning techniques in predicting software defects.
  • Responsibilities: Lead role in envisioning, developing and employing Personalised Defect Prediction techniques developed by University in deploying and prototyping them internal to Cisco.
  • Project : Data Anonymization And Analytics for Cloud Privacy.
  • Design of the Secure Techniques for accessing Encrypted data for Cloud Security Platform (Patent Pending: 14/087,045 ). Design of a block cipher FNR mode.
  • Responsibilities: Designing block cipher techniques for encrypting small objects like Credit card numbers, IPv4 addresses etc. Also coming up with best practices for anonymizing the data before it is shared with Cloud Service Providers. Protrayed engineering lead role for this project.
  • Project : Cisco Security Manager
  • Responsibilities:
  • Design, Development of Management Applications for Cisco Firewalls (Multiple Cisco Achievement Program Awards for high quality, innovation , team work).
  • Developed a prototype and Written paper on application of index searching techniques (using Lucene) to firewall access rules that won me first prize in Innovation Expo 2011 in Cisco.
  • Security Advocacy for Internal teams for compliance with Cisco Secure Development Life Cycle (Awarded Product Security Champion from SVP - 2013)
Software DevelopmentMachine LearningCloud Security

Alcatel-lucent

Senior Software Engineer

May 2006Apr 2010 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Worked In the Optical Network Management System , the work primarily involves software design , development and deliver of various modules/Features involved in provisioning and optimizing the network resources.
  • Also applications of Graph Theory In Finding Automatic path in a given network
  • Expertise in designing, implementing and maintaining highly complex network management systems using distributed technologies like CORBA.
Software DesignNetwork ManagementDistributed TechnologiesSoftware Development

Center for development of telematics (c-do t)

Research Engineer

Aug 2003May 2006 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked with TMN Group on
  • Design and development of Mediation, Fault Tolerant modules for NMS Suite of products
  • Design and development of web 2.0 interfaces using AJAX, JavaScript etc.
  • Developing the applications involving various protocols like SNMP , SS7, Jabber(XMPP) etc.
  • Network simulation tool to design and developed strategies to simulate the various network configurations using OPNET for Latency Analysis of ATM switches.
  • Ground work for Secure-NMS project involving analysis of SSL, IPSEC etc.
Network ManagementWeb DevelopmentProtocol Development

Education

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) — Computer Science

Jan 2014Jan 2019

International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore

Master of Science (M.S.) By Research

Jan 2011Jan 2014

Koneru Lakshmaiah College of Engineering

BTech — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 1999Jan 2003

Raghu Junior College

Intermediate / Pre University

Jan 1997Jan 1999

St Josephs English Medium High School

High School — High School/Secondary Certificate Programs

Jan 1987Jan 1997

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