Media Release

Mangaluru, Feb 14: The department of computer science and engineering of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC) in association with SJEC-AICTE IDEA Lab organized a three-day hands-on training workshop on cyber security from February 9 to 11.

The programme started with a prayer song followed by lighting the lamp. Dr Sridevi Saralaya, HOD of CSE department welcomed the gathering and the resource persons. This was followed by an address by the chief guest, Robinson D’Souza – founder of CyberSapiens and the principal, Dr Rio D’Souza. Fr Alwyn Richard D’Souza, in-charge director of SJEC was the president of the function and Dr Purushothama Chippar, vice-principal and coordinator-Idea Labs was the guests of honour. Vote of thanks was given by Sunitha G, coordinator of the workshop. The function was compered by Nisha J Roche.

A total of 30 faculty from various colleges participated in the workshop. The resource persons for the workshop were Robin D’Souza and his team Shahid Ahmed – senior risk advisor, Dheeraj Prabhu – security analyst and Rahif – security analyst from CyberSapiens, Mangaluru.

The hands-on sessions included topics such as Cyber Security in the current industry, Cryptography and Steganography, Ethical Hacking, Eavesdropping, MITM Attack, OSINT, Google Dorking, Web Application Security, Social Engineering, SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting Attack and Windows Hacking. The agenda of the session was to provide hands-on experience for the faculties which would help them further in training the students.