One week pongal vacation

This week we are having Sankranthi vacation between 11th January 2015 and 18th January 2015.

MSIT Information Security Symposium 2015 - Crypton

MSIT information security was conducted for all second year Information Security students at MSIT division IIIT Hyderabad, between 5th January 2015 and 10th January 2015. With over 9 guest lectures from industry along with other Technical and non technical activities the event brought together IS students from IIIT-H, JNTU-H, JNTU-K and JNTU-A.

Even was inaugurated by MSIT DEAN, Prof.Sreenivasa Rao Meda on 5th January 2015. Some of the activities in the symposium are as follows:

1. Hackathon - Technical programming contest
2. Case study on Disaster planning
3. Orientations for System security & Malware, Economics of Information Security
4. Alumni Interaction session.
5. Reading assignments
6. Games, and sports
7. Adzap
8. Group activities 
9. Guest lectures on topics such as:
1. Static analysis
2. Advanced persistent threat
3. Enterprise security
4. Web based vulnerabilities, defense, and analysis
5. Certification courses for Information Security
6. Careers and going forward
7. Mobile and application security
8. Big data for Information Security
9. Securability in organizations, secure coding, and getting ready for SMAC.