SJEC-AICTE IDEA Lab in association with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of St Joseph Engineering College organized a three-day Hands-On Training Workshop on Cyber Security from 9th to 11th February, 2023. The workshop was held from 9:00am to 5:00pm on all the three days. A total of 27 Inteal and Exteal staff and students participated in the workshop. The resource persons for the workshop were Mr Robin D'Souza and his team from Cyber Sapiens, Mangalore.
The registration process started at 9:00am which was followed by the Inauguration function from 9:30am on the first day. The function started with a prayer song by Ms Veena Crasta and Lighting the lamp. Dr Sridevi Saralaya, HOD of CSE Department welcomed the gathering and the resource person. This was followed by an address by the Chief Guest, Mr Robin D'Souza 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 Honor. Vote of thanks was given by Ms Sunitha G, coordinator of the workshop. The function was compered by Ms Nisha J Roche.
The session started at 10.30 am in lab (2202) after the tea break. The resource person, Mr. Robin D'Souza initiated the session with a brief lecture on the fundamental concepts of Cybersecurity like CIA triad, impact of social engineering etc. After an hour of theoretical session, the participants were given instructions to download the virtual box and thereby install kali linux in our systems. Lunch break was around 1pm and the session restarted sharp at 1.30 pm. In the afteoon session, familiarization of linux commands and different ways of installing scripts were discussed. Certain tools like gobuster tool, red_hawk, stego tool and pentest tool were discussed. After the tea break at 3.30 pm, the session continued with the basics of cryptography, its types and various examples, Numerous online encrypt decrypt tools were discussed and the session winded up at 5pm.
The second day session started at 9:15am. The topic of Steganography was explained. The technique of sending a secret message by hiding it in another file which could be text, image, or audio was demonstrated. The Openstego tool was used to encrypt and decrypt messages sent using steganographic technique. After the tea break at 11:15am, various other websites were explored wherein the user could get the details of his/her personal data that could have been compromised due to the hacking of company websites where the user had provided his/her credentials. Lunch break was around 1pm and the session restarted sharp at 1.30 pm. In the afteoon session the topic of Ethical hacking was discussed. The five steps such as Reconnaissance, Scanning, gaining access, maintaining access, and clearing records was demonstrated using various open source tools. After the tea break at 3.30 pm, the use of Burp Suite for eavesdropping was demonstrated through which the intruder could get access to the unauthorized data of users.
The third day session was mainly about ethical hacking. The session started at 9:15am. One of the tool to perform hacking is burpsuite. The resource persons informed about how to install the software. Once this was setup , hackings based on useame and passwords using brute force method were explained which was lead by hands on session. After the tea break at 11:15am, Phising tools were explained such as max phiser, and hands on session were also carried out. It was informed on how cautious a person must be while sharing personal information as hacking could be done in many ways. Lunch break was around 1pm and the session restarted sharp at 1.30 pm. In the afteoon session websites which reward people for identifying vulnerabilities in their websites were shown.
The session ended by a valedictory function which was compered by Ms Nisha Roche. The resource Persons, Mr Dheeraj, Mr Shahid Ahmed and Mr Raif were thanked and as a token of appreciation Dr Sridevi Saralaya handed over mementos to them. The Participants Mr Mohammed Saifuddeen and Mr Nithesh Pai shared their feedback about the sessions. Dr Sridevi Saralaya distributed certificates to all participants. The coordinators of the workshop were Ms Sunitha Guruprasad and Dr Sridevi Saralaya. Dr Saumya Y M, Ms Pruthvi M R, Ms Prajna M, Ms Chithra k, Dr Sofia Rego and Ms Nisha Roche were the committee members of the workshop.
