Dr. Preetam Mukherjee

Dr. Preetam Mukherjee

Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science & Engineering
Digital University Kerala
  • Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science & Engineering at Digital University Kerala (formerly IIITMK).
  • Former Postdoctoral Researcher, Division of Network and Systems Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Former Developer at SRIC, IIT Kharagpur and Centre for Distributed Computing, Jadavpur University, India.
  • Ph.D. and M.E., Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, India.
Domains of Work
Attack Modeling
Network Hardening
Incident Response
5G Security
Smart Grid Security

Projects

Design and Development of Next Generation Automated Security Operations and Response Tool (ASPER)

Funding: MeitY, Government of India

Industry Partner: Tata Elxsi

Status: Ongoing

This project aims to build an advanced automated security operations and response tool to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities against sophisticated cyber threats.

Publications

  • Rani B.S., S., Mukherjee, P., & Ekstedt, M. (2025). “Modular Analysis of Attack Graphs for Smart Grid Security.” In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS ’25), Indore, India. [Link]
  • Nair, L. R., Anil, A., Mukherjee, P., & Aggarwal, M. (2025). “Security-Centric NWDAF Module for Threat Detection and Mitigation in 5G Core Networks.” In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS ’25), Indore, India. [Link]
  • Ghosh, A., Ditale, D., Albanese, M., & Mukherjee, P. (2025). “Optimizing IDS Rule Placement via Set Covering with Capacity Constraints.” Computers & Security, Volume 161. [Link]
  • Thomas, B., Thampi, S. M., & Mukherjee, P. (2024). “Identifying Insecure Network Configurations Through Attack Modeling and Explainable AI.” In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS ’24), Jaipur, India. [Link]
  • Ghosh, A., Albanese, M., Mukherjee, P., & Alipour-Fanid, A. (2024). “Improving the Efficiency of Intrusion Detection Systems by Optimizing Rule Deployment Across Multiple IDSs.” In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Security and Cryptography (Secrypt ’24), Dijon, France. [Link]
  • Katsikeas, S., Buhaiu, A., Ekstedt, M., Afzal, Z., Hacks, S., & Mukherjee, P. (2024). “Development and validation of coreLang: A threat modeling language for the ICT domain.” Computers & Security, Volume 146. [Link]
  • Mukherjee, P., Thampi, S. M., Rohith, N., Poddar, B. K., & Sen, I. (2023). “Detection and Hardening Strategies to Secure an Enterprise Network.” In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS ’23), Raipur, India. [Link]
  • Ekstedt, M., Afzal, Z., Mukherjee, P., Hacks, S., & Lagerström, R. (2023). “Yet another cybersecurity risk assessment framework.” International Journal of Information Security, Volume 22. [Link]
  • Mukherjee, P., Sengupta, A., & Mazumdar, C. (2022). “'Security Gap' as a metric for enterprise business processes.” Security and Privacy, Volume 5. [Link]
  • Wideł, W., Mukherjee, P., & Ekstedt, M. (2022). “Security countermeasures selection using the Meta Attack Language and probabilistic attack graphs.” IEEE Access, Volume 10. [Link]
  • Fahlander, P., Ekstedt, M., Mukherjee, P., & Dwivedi, A. (2022). “Containment strategy formalism in a probabilistic threat modelling framework.” In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP ’22). [Link]
  • Mukherjee, P., & Mazumdar, C. (2019). “'Security Concern' as a metric for enterprise business processes.” IEEE Systems Journal, Volume 13. [Link]
  • Mukherjee, P., & Mazumdar, C. (2018). “Attack difficulty metric for assessment of network security.” In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES ’18), Hamburg, Germany. [Link]
  • Mukherjee, P., & Mazumdar, C. (2015). “A novel model of security policies and requirements.” In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP ’15), Angers, France. [Link]

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