IoT Security (IoTS) Research Lab

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad.

In Collaboration with C3i Hub, IIT Kanpur



  • Reserved CVE CVE-2024-57040 of our new finding. [Contributors: Mr. Akash Singh, Mr. Parth Chaurasia, Mr. Swaroop Dora, Mr. Devel Lunkad, Mr. Ashutosh Kumar and Dr. S. Venkatesan]

  • Delegation from Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences (THM University), Germany including the president Prof. Dr. Matthias Willems visited our lab on 22/01/2025.

  • Prof. Rajkumar Buyya from The Unviersity of Melbourne visited our lab on 13/01/2025.

  • A paper titled "Automated IoT Device Identification Based on Full Packet Information Using Real-Time Network Traffic", accepted to present in The 17th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS - Workshop on Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems (MINDS) (COMSNETS Workshop '25 - MINDS). Authors: Swaroop Dora (IIIT Allahabad), Brijesh Peshvani (IIIT Allahabad), Ashutosh Kumar (IIIT Allahabad), Piyush Tiwari (IIIT Allahabad), S. Venkatesan (IIIT Allahabad), Sandeep Kumar Shukla (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) and Rahamatullah Khondoker (THM Germany)

  • Published CVEs CVE-2024-46341, CVE-2024-46340 and CVE-2024-50699 [Contributors: Swaroop Dora, Devel Lunkad, Ashutosh Kumar and S. Venkatesan]

  • Mr. Atul Kumar, Director - Government Initiatives & Global Trade, Data Security Council of India (DSCI) visited our lab.

  • Dr. Gulshan Rai, Former and First National Cyber Security Coordinator, Government of India and Former Director General, CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) visited our lab and gave directions to our team.

  • A paper titled "IoT Device Security Audit Tools: A Comprehensive Analysis and a Layered Architecture Approach for Addressing Expanded Security Requirements", accepted to publish in the International Journal of Information Security, Springer. Authors: Ashutosh Kumar (IIIT Allahabad), L. Kavisankar(IIIT Allahabad), S. Venkatesan (IIIT Allahabad), Suneel Yadav (IIIT Allahabad), Manish Kumar (IIIT Allahabad), Sandeep Kumar Shukla (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) and Rahamatullah Khondoker (THM Germany)

  • Reserved CVE CVE-2024-50699 of our new finding. [Contributors: Mr. Swaroop Dora, Mr. Devel Lunkad, Mr. Ashutosh Kumar and Dr. S. Venkatesan]

  • A paper titled "IoT Device Security Audit Tools: A Comprehensive Analysis and a Layered Architecture Approach for Addressing Expanded Security Requirements" is accepted to publish in the International Journal of Information Security, Springer. [Authors: Ashutosh Kumar, Kavishankar L, S. Venkatesan, Sandeep Kumar Shukla, Suneel Yadav, Manish Kumar, Rahamatullah Khondaker]

  • Reserved CVEs CVE-2024-46340 & CVE-2024-46341 for our new findings. [Contributors: Mr. Devel Lunkad, Mr. Swaroop Dora, Mr. Ashutosh Kumar and Dr. S. Venkatesan]

  • A paper titled "A Novel Strategy for the Identification of the Operating System of Bluetooth-Enabled Devices for Security Audit" is accepted to publish in the 11th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2024), Sweden, Authors: L. Kavishankar, Ajay Vemuri, S Venkatesan, Rahamatullah Khondoker.

  • Our first CVE-2023-49515 published. [Contributors: Mr. Aditya Ray and Mr. Vineet]

  • A paper titled "Automated Security Audit Testbed for IP-Based IoT Devices without Physical Access" is accepted to publish in the 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2023), San Antonio, Texas , USA. Authors: Ashutosh Kumar, Brijesh Peshvani, S Venkatesan, Manish Kumar, Suneel Yadav, Sandeep Kumar Shukla.

  • A paper titled "Automated Hardware Auditing Testbed for UART and SPI based IoT Devices" is accepted to publish in the 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2023), San Antonio, Texas , USA. Author(s): Shivam Mishra, Aditya Ray, Manpreet Singh, S Venkatesan, Anshu S. Anand.

  • Developed IoT Vulnerability Testing Tool. [Contributor: Mr. Yash Anand]

  • Developed IP based IoT Device Auditing Testbed. [Contributor: Mr. Ashutosh]

  • Prepared the IoT Device Security Audit Guidelines