Students of UPES Dehradun Develop Software to Protect ISRO Data from Hackers
Apart from students of UPES, around 440 B.Tech students from 13 states have been working on various problems assigned by ISRO as a part of Hackathon 2017.
A total number of six students from University of Petroleum and Energy Studies or UPES Dehradun have developed a software tool with an objective to prevent the hacking of highly sensitive online documents of Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO. The idea is to divert the attacker to a random user.
Apart from students of UPES, around 440 B.Tech students from 13 states have been working on various problems assigned by ISRO as a part of Hackathon 2017. The students had two days time to figure out the solution for various problems. The Hackathon 2017 began on April 1, 2017, and continued until April 2, 2017. The Hackathon was conducted as a part of ‘Digital India Mission’, an initiative of Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi.
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The students who took part in Hackathon 2017 were third-year B.Tech students. They were given 36 hours of time to figure of solutions to 21 problems. The software developed by students of University of Petroleum and Engineering Studies is called as ‘Cyber Eye’. The specialty of the software is that it identifies the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and hides the IP address of a computer or machine, which the hacker wants to have access to.
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UPES Professors - Mr. Amber Hayat and Mr. Keshav Kaushik mentored the students. All six students have been registered as ‘ethical hackers’. Mr. Kaushik revealed that the software developed by them would help ISRO in protecting the sensitive documents and information.
Students from various other institutes also figured out solutions to various problems. Students from Shivalik Group of Institutions located in Ambala worked on “secured distribution of restricted documents outside the organization”.