The JUIT Alumni Cell organized a talk with Mr. Saurabh Sud, an Information Security professional, currently working as Manager- Cyber Security at KPMG, Germany. He is an alumnus of the 2008 batch and has a master’s degree in Communications Engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. The event took place virtually on 13th November, 2021 at 3:00 p.m on the Google Meet platform and was joined by almost a hundred people.
With a very warm welcome by the Vice-Chancellor Prof. (Dr.) Rajendra Kumar Sharma & Faculty Incharge of Alumni Cell Dr. Saurabh Bansal the event commenced. Everyone congratulated our alumnus Mr Saurabh for his accomplishments.
Mr. Saurabh had prepared a presentation on "Cyber security" which proved to be very helpful as it cleared almost all our doubts regarding the topic.
He started up with how hackers and cybercriminals use the internet as a tool to spread malware and carry out cyber-attacks and in what ways this pandemic has led to a rapid increase in cybercrimes. Many multinational companies have been attacked which led to a breach of trust between the customers and the management.
His slides covered important topics like:
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Viruses and their capability to corrupt files and steal private information like credit card details of the user and send them back to the hacker.
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The next topic that came up was “Identity Theft” which is a type of cybersecurity threat that involves the stealing of personal information of the victims from social media websites such as Facebook, Instagram, etc. and using that info to build a picture of the victims. He warned us that if sufficient sensitive information is gathered it could allow the cybercriminal to pretend to be you in some way. In some cases, hackers may steal the bank details of the victims and use it for their personal use.
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Next, he explained ransomware which unlike all other types of cyber-attacks, notifies the victim about the exploit, and it also gives instructions on how to recover from it.
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He explained the severity of cyber-attacks by describing an event where a hospital was attacked by some hackers. It proved to be fatal as one person lost his life.
After the concluding slide, many questions were asked by students regarding cyber security like why advertisements of products similar to what we looked for online on different apps and Google pop up as stories on my Instagram account and if he ever faced a situation where he had to act very quickly to mitigate a threat.
The VC sir actively took part in the interaction and asked questions like which programming languages must be added to the course which can turn out to be more beneficial to students.
The event was stimulating and enjoyable and simultaneously profitable as sir shared his views and good numbers of new ideas, information and insights came up.
