Suryadipta Majumdar works at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Suryadipta is involved in the Concordia Information Security Research (CISR) Lab and NSERC/Ericsson IRC in SDN/NFV Security Program. Previously, Suryadipta was an assistant professor at the Information Security and Digital Forensics department at SUNY, Albany. During his PhD (with Dr. Lingyu Wang), Suryadipta was an National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada Graduate Scholar at Concordia University. He finished his MASc in Information Systems Security from Concordia University (with Dr. Mohammad Mannan) and his BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

• Cloud Computing Security
• Internet of Things (IoT) Security
• Network Security

2023:

• “On Reducing Underutilization of Security Standards by Deriving Actionable Rules: An Application to IoT”, Md Wasiuddin Pathan Shuvo, Md Nazmul Hoq, Suryadipta Majumdar, Paria Shirani, Proc. the 8th Security Standardisation Research (SSR) Conference, Lyon, France, April 22-23, 2023
• “Warping the Defence Timeline: Non-disruptive Proactive Attack Mitigation for Kubernetes Clusters”, Sima Bagheri, Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Lingyu Wang, Makan Pourzandi, Proc. the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2023), Rome, Italy, 28 May – 01 June, 2023
• “A Tenant-based Two-stage Approach to Auditing the Integrity of Virtual Network Function Chains Hosted on Third-Party Clouds”, Momen Oqaily, Suryadipta Majumdar, Lingyu Wang, Mohammad Ekramul Kabir, Yosr Jarraya, A S M Asadujjaman, Makan Pourzandi, Mourad Debbabi, Proc. the 13th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), Charlotte, NC, USA, April 24-26, 2023

2022:

• “5GFIVer: Functional Integrity Verification for 5G Cloud-Native Network Functions”, A S M Asadujjaman, Mohammad Ekramul Kabir, Hinddeep Purohit, Suryadipta Majumdar, Lingyu Wang, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Proc. The 13th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), Bangkok, Thailand, December 13-16, 2022
• “MLFM: Machine Learning Meets Formal Method for Efficient Security Verification in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)”, Alaa Oqaily, Yosr Jarraya, Lingyu Wang, Makan Pourzandi, Suryadipta Majumdar, Proc. the 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Copenhagen, Denmark, 26-30 September 2022 (Acceptance ratio 104/562≈18.5%)
• “ProSPEC: Proactive Security Policy Enforcement for Containers”, Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Mahmood Gholipourchoubeh, Sima Bagheri, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi and Lingyu Wang, Proc. the 12th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), Baltimore-Washington DC Area, USA, April 24-26, 2022 (Acceptance ratio 30/111≈27%)

2021:

• “ProSAS: Proactive Security Auditing System for Clouds”, Suryadipta Majumdar, Gagandeep Singh Chawla, Amir Alimohammadifar, Taous Madi, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Accepted
• “Feature Reduction through Data Pre-Processing for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks”, Tania Tahmina Jui, Md. Nazmul Hoq, Suryadipta Majumdar and Md. Shohrab Hossain, Proc. the Third IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (TPS), Virtual, December 13-15, 2021
• “Context-Aware IoT Device Functionality Extraction from Specifications for Ensuring Consumer Security”, Upakar Paudel, Andy Dolan, Suryadipta Majumdar and Indrakshi Ray, Proc. the 9th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS 2021), Online, October 4 - 6, 2021 (Acceptance ratio 32/113≈28%)
• “Artificial Packet-Pair Dispersion (APPD): A Blackbox Approach to Verifying the Integrity of NFV Service Chains”, A S M Asadujjaman, Momen Oqaily, Yosr Jarraya, Suryadipta Majumdar, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. the 9th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS 2021), Online, October 4 - 6, 2021 (Acceptance ratio 32/113≈28%)
• “Towards an Attention-based Accurate Intrusion Detection Approach”, Arunavo Dey, Md. Shohrab Hossain, Md. Nazmul Hoq, and Suryadipta Majumdar, Proc. the 17th EAI International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (QSHINE), Virtual, November 29-30, 2021
• “An Invisible Warfare with the Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT): A Literature Review”, Lin Zhu, Suryadipta Majumdar and Chinwe Ekenna, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2021, pages 255-260
• “Security Auditing of Internet of Things Devices in a Smart Home”, Suryadipta Majumdar, Daniel Bastos and Anoop Singhal, Proc. the 17th IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, Virtual, February 1 - 2, 2021

2020:

• “VMGuard: State-based Proactive Verification of Virtual Network Isolation with Application to NFV”, Gagandeep Singh Chawla, Mengyuan Zhang, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Accepted
• “NFVGuard : Verifying the Security of Multilevel Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Stack”, Alaa Oqaily, Sudershan Lakshmanan, Yosr Jarraya, Suryadipta Majumdar, Mengyuan Zhang, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2020), Bangkok, Thailand, December 14 - 17, 2020
• “A Multi-Level Proactive Security Auditing Framework for Clouds through Automated Dependency Building”, Suryadipta Majumdar, CCF Transactions on Networking, Vol. 3, No. 2, October 2020, pages 112-127
• “Poster: Defining Actionable Rules for Verifying IoT Security”, Kayla E Ibrahim, Suryadipta Majumdar, Daniel Bastos and Anoop Singhal, 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2020), San Francisco, USA Online, May 18 - 20, 2020
• “Proactively Extracting IoT Device Capabilities: An Application to Smart Homes”, Andy Dolan, Indrakshi Ray and Suryadipta Majumdar, Proc. the 34th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSec 2020), Regensburg, Germany Online, June 25 - 27, 2020

2019:

• “SegGuard: Segmentation-based Anonymization of Network Data in Clouds for Privacy-Preserving Security Auditing”, Momen Oqaily, Yosr Jarraya, Meisam Mohammady, Suryadipta Majumdar, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Accepted
• "Multi-Level Proactive Security Auditing for Cloud", Suryadipta Majumdar, Azadeh Tabiban, Meisam Mohammady, Alaa Oqaily, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. the IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC 2019), Hangzhou, China, November 18-20, 2019
• "Proactivizer: Transforming Existing Verification Tools into Efficient Solutions for Runtime Security Enforcement", Suryadipta Majumdar, Azadeh Tabiban, Meisam Mohammady, Alaa Oqaily, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. the 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2019), Luxembourg, September 23-27, 2019 (Acceptance ratio 67/344≈19.5%)
• [Book] “Cloud Security Auditing”, Suryadipta Majumdar, Taous Madi, Yushun Wang, Azadeh Tabiban, Momen Oqaily, Amir Alimohammadifar, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Springer, 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-23127-9
• [Non-Refereed Conference Presentation] “Current Challenges in IoT Security”, Jivan A  Ramjisingh, Domenic Recchia, Michael A Cahill, Suryadipta Majumdar and Sanjay Goel, 14th Annual Symposium on Information Assurance (ASIA 2019), June 4-6, 2019, Albany, NY, USA
• “Learning Probabilistic Dependencies among Events for Proactive Security Auditing in Clouds”, Suryadipta Majumdar, Azadeh Tabiban, Yosr Jarraya, Momen Oqaily, Amir Alimohammadifar, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Journal of Computer Security (JCS), Vol. 27, No. 2, March 2019, pages 165-202

2018:

• "ISOTOP: Auditing Virtual Networks Isolation Across Cloud Layers in OpenStack", Taous Madi, Amir Alimohammadifar, Yosr Jarraya, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yushun Wang, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), Vol. 22, No. 1, December 2018, pages 1:1-1:35
• "Cloud Security Auditing: Major Approaches and Existing Challenges", Suryadipta Majumdar, Taous Madi, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. the 11th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2018), Montreal, Canada, November 13-15, 2018
• "Stealthy Probing-based Verification (SPV): An Active Approach to Defending Software Defined Networks against Topology Poisoning Attacks", Amir Alimohammadifar, Suryadipta Majumdar, Taous Madi, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. the 23rd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2018), Barcelona, Spain, September 3-7, 2018 (Acceptance ratio 56/283≈20%)
• "Proactive Security Auditing for Clouds", PhD Thesis, 2018 [Awarded with Doctoral Prize]
• "Fast Control Channel Recovery for Resilient In-band OpenFlow Networks", Abu Asadujjaman, Elisa Rojas, Mohammad Shah Alam, Suryadipta Majumdar, Proc. the 4th IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft 2018), Montreal, Canada, June 25-29, 2018
• "PERMON: An OpenStack Middleware for Runtime Security Policy Enforcement in Clouds", Azadeh Tabiban, Suryadipta Majumdar, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. the 4th IEEE Workshop on Security and Privacy in the Cloud (SPC 2018), Beijing, China, May 30-June 1, 2018
• "User-Level Runtime Security Auditing for the Cloud", Suryadipta Majumdar, Taous Madi, Yushun Wang, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Vol. 13, No. 5, May 2018, pages 1185-1199

2017 and Before:

• "LeaPS: Learning-Based Proactive Security Auditing for Clouds", Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Momen Oqaily, Amir Alimohammadifar, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. the 22nd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2017), Oslo, Norway, September 11-13, 2017 (Acceptance ratio 54/340≈16%)
• "TenantGuard: Scalable Runtime Verification of Cloud-Wide VM-Level Network Isolation", Yushun Wang, Taous Madi, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Amir Alimohammadifar, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2017), San Diego, USA, February 26 - March 1, 2017 (Acceptance ratio 68/423≈16%)
• "Proactive Verification of Security Compliance for Clouds through Pre-Computation: Application to OpenStack", Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Taous Madi, Amir Alimohammadifar, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. the 21st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2016), Heraklion, Greece, September 28-30, 2016 (Acceptance ratio 60/285≈21%)
• "Auditing Security Compliance of the Virtualized Infrastructure in the Cloud: Application to OpenStack", Taous Madi, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yushun Wang, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. The 6th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2016), New Orleans, USA, March 09-11, 2016 (Acceptance ratio 22/115≈19%)
• “Security Compliance Auditing of Identity and Access Management in the Cloud: Application to OpenStack”, Suryadipta Majumdar, Taous Madi, Yushun Wang, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang and Mourad Debbabi, Proc. The 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2015), Vancouver, Canada, November 30-December 3, 2015 (Acceptance ratio 48/189≈25%)
• "On End-to-end encryption for Cloud-based Services", MASc Thesis, 2014
• "Analysis and design of individual Tax return systems in Bangladesh", 12th International Conference on Computers and Information Technology (ICCIT 2009)

• A S M Asadujjaman (PhD) - co-advised with Dr. Lingyu Wang
• Mahmood Gholipour (MASc) - co-advised with Dr. Lingyu Wang
• Sima Bagheri (PhD) - co-advised with Dr. Lingyu Wang
• Shiva Sunar (MASc)
• Md. Nazmul Hoq (PhD) - co-advised with Dr. Mourad Debbabi
• Ehsan Khodayarseresht (PhD)
• Sofya Smolyakova (MASc)
• Hinddeep Purohit (MASc) - co-advised with Dr. Yosr Jarraya
• Armin Mansouri (MASc)
• Alireza Toghiyani (MASc) - co-advised with Dr. Paria Shirani (uOttawa)
• Jia Wei Yao (MASc) - co-advised with Dr. Lingyu Wang
• Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec (PhD) - co-advised with Dr. Lingyu Wang
• Mahdieh Ghorbanian (MASc)

• Md. Wasiuddin Pathan Shuvo (MASc)
• Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec (MASc) - co-advised with Dr. Lingyu Wang
• Andy Dolan (MS in Computer Science at CSU) - co-advised with Dr. Indrakshi Ray
• Jivan Ramjisingh (BSc in Digital Forensics)
• Kayla Ibrahim (BSc in Digital Forensics)
• Jimmy Kong (BSc in Informatics)

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• Program Co-Chair: 5th Workshop on Cloud Security and Privacy (CLOUD S&P 2023), June 20, 2022, Kyoto, Japan, in conjunction with ACNS 2023
• Program Co-Chair: 16th International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS 2022), December 9-12, 2022, Fiji
• PC Member: The Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime 2022), November 30 - December 2, 2022
• PC Member: The 21st Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2022), Los Angeles, USA, November 7-11, 2022
• Program Co-Chair: 4th Workshop on Cloud Security and Privacy (CLOUD S&P 2022), June 22, 2022, Rome, Italy, in conjunction with ACNS 2022
• Track Co-Chair (Security): 19th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST2022), August 22-24, 2022, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
• PC Member: The 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2022), July 11-13 2022, Copenhagen, Denamrk
• PC Member: The 37th IFIP TC-11 SEC 2022 International Information Security and Privacy Conference (SEC 2022), June 13-17 2022, Oslo, Norway
• Lead Guest Editor: Special Issue on Cyber Forensics for Emerging Technologies, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (IEEE OJ-COMS)
• Program Co-Chair: CLOUD S&P 2021, CLOUD S&P 2020, CLOUD S&P 2019, ASIA 2019
• PC Member: TPS 2021, QSHINE 2021, SECRYPT 2021, SEC 2021, CSR 2021, SEC 2020, SEPT 2020, ICISSP2020, FPS 2019, SSCC 2019, SEC 2019, STPSA 2019, FPS 2018
• Journal Paper Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), IEEE Internet of Things Journal, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Journal of Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG), Elsevier Computer & Security, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Future Generation Computer Systems, Sensors, IET Information Security, IEEE Access, Software: Practice and Experience, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, and Journal of King Saud University Computer and Information Sciences

• NSERC/FRQNT NOVA Program (Co-PIs: Dr. Lianying Zhao and Dr. Nadia Tawbi) (2023-2026)
• Gina Cody Research and Innovation Fellowship (2022-2024)
• NSERC Discovery Grant (2021-2026)
• DND/NSERC Discovery Grant Supplement (2021-2024)
• Mitacs Accelerate Grant with Rheinmetall Canada Inc. (Co-Applicant: Dr. Mohsen Ghafouri) (2021-2026)
• Mitacs Accelerate Grant with Ericsson Canada (Co-Applicant: Dr. Lingyu Wang) (2022)
• University at Albany Faculty Research Award (FRAP-A) (2020-2022)
• SUNY/UAlbany Internet of Things (IoT) Research Seed Funding (2019-2020)
• Doctoral Prize in Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University (2020)
• National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D) (2017-19)
• National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (2018)
• Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQNT) Scholarship (B2) (2017-18)

• INSE 6630: Recent Developments in Information Systems Security @ Concordia (Summer 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2021)
• SOEN 321: Information Systems Security @ Concordia (Winter 2023, Winter 2022)
• INSE 6130: Operating Systems Security @ Concordia (Winter 2023, Winter 2022, Winter 2021)
• BFOR 205: Introduction to Database Systems @ SUNY - Albany (Fall 2019)
• BFOR 418: Assembly Language and Malware Reverse Engineering @ SUNY - Albany (Fall 2019, Fall 2018)
• BFOR 100: Introduction to Information Systems @ SUNY - Albany (Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020)
• Guest Lectures / POD / Marker @ Concordia University, Canada
• INSE 6620 (Summer'18, Summer'17, Summer'16), INSE 6140 (Winter'18, Winter'17, Winter'16), INSE 6130 (Fall'17, Fall'16, Winter'16, Fall'15), INSE 6120 (Fall'13)

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