Jekyll2026-05-19T09:09:37+00:00https://anupchavan.github.io/feed.xmlCenter for Cryptography and CybersecurityCCS IITH — Indian Institute of Technology HyderabadDr. Maruthi Inukonda Secures Top Honours in CipherSprint Hackathon2026-02-05T00:00:00+00:002026-02-05T00:00:00+00:00https://anupchavan.github.io/news/2026/02/05/maruthi-ciphersprintDr. Maruthi Inukonda, Scientific Officer at the Centre for Cryptography and Cybersecurity (CCS), IITH, secured top honours in the CipherSprint hackathon (under the Government Agencies and Private Limited innovation track) at SHIELD 2026, organised by the Telangana Cyber Security Bureau (TGCSB), Hyderabad.

Maruthi presented two innovations from his research: FENCE, an on-premises network appliance (TRL-6) that performs fine-grained encryption of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in logs using award-winning Partitioned Columnar Encryption, coupled with a SaaS platform for compact, analytics-friendly storage and real-time threat detection on privacy-preserved logs; and Reconia, a web service (TRL-3) enabling automated forensic readiness drills at national scale through confidentiality-preserving reconciliations.

FENCE’s network-first approach makes it particularly effective in BYOD environments where deploying agents on end-devices isn’t feasible. The research was conducted under the guidance of Prof. Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, IITH, with pilot deployment support from Mr. Jessy Bondla, IITH.

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