CIAG Research Team

Research Interests:

His research interests include security testing, security education, control systems and SCADA security, physical security, and secure protocol design and development.

Past projects:

• A Structured and Practical Methodology for Security Evaluation of an IP-Based Stack
• Netfilter Extensions For Modbus/TCP
• Honeynet for SCADA Environments
• A Vulnerability Taxonomy for Network Protocols
• Physical Security
• Developing Frameworks for Predicting and Estimating Attack Impact on Network Protocols
• Exploit Robust Implementation of Protocols Through Formal Method-Driven Unambiguous and Attack-Intelligent Specifications

Speaking Engagements:

• Guest lectures at Wright State University, Iowa State University,
  www.math.iastate.edu/IA/2003/venkat.html
  www.cs.wright.edu/~pmateti/InternetSecurity/Lectures/Top/venkatWSUTalk.ppt
• Participated as a steering committee member for extending USMA's Cyber Defense Exercises (CDX) to universities.
  www.cspri.seas.gwu.edu/library/docs/2004\%2008\%2030\%20Cyber\%20Security\%20Exercise\%20report.pdf

List of Publications:

• Venkat Pothamsetty and Andrew Balinsky, A Practical Methodology For Evaluating IP-based Stacks,
  www.cisco.com/security\_services/ciag/documents/stack-howto.pdf
• Venkat Pothamsetty and Matthew Franz, ModbusFW: Deep Packet Inspect for Industrial Ethernet, accepted for presentation at NISCC conference in London, May 2004.
  www.io.com/~mdfranz/papers/franz-niscc-modbusfw-may04.pdf
• A Vulnerability Taxonomy for Network Protocols: Corresponding Engineering Best Practice Countermeasures, accepted for presentation at IASTED Internet and Communications conference, Virgin Islands, November 2004.
  www.iasted.org/conferences/2004/vi/ciit-program.pdf

Contact: vpothams@cisco.com