Pranshu Bajpai

Principal Staff Security Architect

Motorola Solutions Inc.

About

Dr. Pranshu Bajpai has research interests in systems security, malware, digital forensics, and threat intelligence. He has authored several papers for reputed magazines and journals including IEEE, Elsevier, ACM, and ISACA. His work has been featured in various media outlets including Scientific American, The Conversation, Salon, Business Standard, Michigan Radio, GCN, GovTech, and others. He is an active speaker at conferences and has spoken at APWG eCrime, DEFCON, GrrCon, Bsides, ToorCon, and many others. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Michigan State University and MS in Information Security from Indian Institute of Information Technology.

Interests

Systems Security
Cloud Security
Malware Analysis
Digital Forensics
Threat Hunting
Data Science

Education

PhD, Computer Science, 2020

Michigan State University
MS, Information Security, 2014

Indian Institute of Information Technology
MBA, Marketing, 2012

Prestige Institute of Management and Research

Publications

Pranshu Bajpai, Richard Enbody (2020). An Empirical Study of API Calls in Ransomware. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (EIT).

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Pranshu Bajpai, Richard Enbody (2020). An Empirical Study of Key Generation in Cryptographic Ransomware. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security).

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Pranshu Bajpai, Richard Enbody (2020). Attacking Key Management in Ransomware (IEEE). In IEEE IT Professional.

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Pranshu Bajpai, Richard Enbody (2020). Dissecting .NET ransomware: key generation, encryption and operation (Elsevier). In Network Security (Elsevier).

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Pranshu Bajpai, Richard Enbody (2020). Memory Forensics Against Ransomware. In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security).

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Pranshu Bajpai, Richard Enbody, Betty HC Cheng (2020). Ransomware Targeting Automobiles (ACM). In Proceedings of the Second ACM Workshop on Automotive and Aerial Vehicle Security.

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Pranshu Bajpai, Richard Enbody (2020). Towards Effective Identification and Rating of Automotive Vulnerabilities (ACM). In AutoSec20 - Proceedings of the Second ACM Workshop on Automotive and Aerial Vehicle Security.

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Pranshu Bajpai, Tyler Olsen, Seth Edgar, Rob McCurdy, Richard Enbody (2019). BATSense: Anomalous Security Event Detection using TBATS Machine Learning (IEEE). In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Protection of Digital Services (Cyber Security).

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Pranshu Bajpai, Aditya K Sood, Richard Enbody (2018). A Key-Management-Based Taxonomy for Ransomware (IEEE). In 2018 IEEE APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime).

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Aditya K Sood, Pranshu Bajpai, Richard Enbody (2018). Evidential Study of Ransomware: Cryptoviral Infections and Countermeasures (ISACA). In ISACA Journal.

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Pranshu Bajpai, Aditya K Sood, Richard Enbody (2018). The Art of Mapping IoT Devices in Networks (Elsevier). In Network Security (Elsevier).

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