Phalgun N Kulkarni

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LinkedIn - linkedin.com/phalgun-n-kulkarni/ Web - https://pkulka13.wixsite.com/pkulka Git - https://github.com/PhalgunNK Education

Masters of Science in Computer Science Graduation – Dec. 2020 The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina. Concentration – Information Security and Privacy.

GPA – 3.9

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science Graduation - May 2019 University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India.

Cumulative GPA – 9.28 / 10

Technical skills

Programming languages - Python, Java, C/C++, HTML, SQL, R. Frameworks, OS and tools - Android Studio, Autopsy, BelkaSoft Evi. Center, Burp Suite, Encase, FTK, Google Cloud Platform, Linux, Matlab, Metasploit, MS Azure, MS Visual Studio, MySQL, Net Bean, Nmap, OS-Forensics, Snort, Tableau (link), VMWare, Wireshark, X-ways Forensics.

Experience

Cyber Security Engineer Intern - Ismile Technologies - Jun. 2020 – Aug 2020

Developing Cloud Security monitoring, and compliance framework for various cloud platforms/components including GCP, AWS, and Azure.

Reviewing remediation alternatives and formulating resolution recommendations.

Reviewing controls audits, reviewing remediation alternatives, and formulating resolution recommendations. Teaching Assistant for Computer Forensics at University of North Carolina at Charlotte – Dec. 2019 – Dec. 2020

Designing labs and solving queries of students regarding Computer forensics.

Grading the assignments and projects.

Research and Academic Projects

1. University Research study in Computer Forensics

Exploration and hands-on for Automotive Forensics, Cloud Forensics, Drone Forensics, Memory analysis, Mobile Forensics, Network forensics, and Incident Response. 2. Exploiting and defending IoT based Smart Home Router. ( Firewall, DOS, CSRF, and XSS )

As router is the connection point between internet and devices, securing it from external threats is necessary.

We initialized a smart home router and exploited vulnerabilities and attacks such as firewall rules, DOS, CSRF and XSS for understanding how a router can be exploited and secured from these common threats. Resulting we have a strong idea of how threats are exploited and how should a router be secured. 3. Completed SEED Labs like RSA encryption and signature, Public Key Infrastructure, Android Repackaging Attack and Spectre Attack lab.

4. Security Mechanism for Encryption Algorithms.

Sending and receiving an encryption key is not completely secure today

Developed a mechanism for generation and transfer of an encryption key using voice and steganography. Voice has been recorded and plotted as a graph and graph values are xor-ed with random initialization vector resulting in key. As each voice is unique, unique key will be generated. The methodology for generating the key will be hidden in an image or a sound or a text file using steganography.

Making it secure and much more work for attackers 5. Automation through Voice Recognition and Microcontroller.

As we manually require to perform daily task such as locking/unlocking the door, opening curtains and similar manual activities.

Developed an Automation system using Arduino Nano and related hardware components in which, by giving voice commands, we can automate manual tasks such as locking/unlocking the door, opening curtains and similar manual activities. It is a standalone system. It is developed using Arudino IDE and C language.

Thus, eliminating internet dependency, we can perform tasks through voice commands.

Publication, Academic Achievements, and Certification Preparing for Comptia Security + and Google Cloud Security Engineer certification (expected before Dec 2020)

Memory forensics article published in Eforensics Magazine https://eforensicsmag.com/product/different-approaches-to- memory-forensics/

Autopsy basics and hands-on certification

1st rank in an inter-collegiate application development competition.

2nd rank and 3rd rank respectively in two consecutive academic years (Bachelors of Science in Computer Science).

Co-curricular Activities

Participated in 3MT research competition.

Found a zero-day vulnerability in OpenWRT interface regarding Firewall rule. CVE-2019-18992

Project based on Arduino on Arduino ProjecHub. Link- https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/phalk.

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