BSides Kerala 2026 Speakers

Aravind C Ajayan

Product Security Architect at Philips, Security Centre of Excellence team

Speaker
Speaker Bio

Product Security Architect at Philips, Security Centre of Excellence team

Sr. Security Engineer with Philips and is part of the Security Centre of Excellence team. Aravind's primary areas of expertise are web/thick client application penetration testing, hardened system security, network security, and windows active directory security. He has helped to fix severe issues in IMS(Internet Management Software) solutions through responsible disclosures.

Aravind pursued his master's in Cyber Security Systems and Networks from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. He is an Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) and has published several research papers on security in IEEE and Springer.

Training at BSides Kerala 2026

Training

Breaking Smart Kiosks with Windows 11 OS Hardening

Training Track Beginner – Intermediate 2 Days

With growing usage of desktop applications in various segments like aviation, healthcare, public infrastructure, logistics, finance, education, hospitality and many more in the form of kiosk/un-attended systems in public, it opens scope of information and network security. Also with change in way of work getting flexible from home due to Covid-19, this increases the responsibilities of enterprises to have their systems run safely using multiple endpoint protection tools like DLP/EDR/KIOSK/PAM etc. In addition, when KIOSK apps are integrated with smart AI solutions, it becomes pivotal in compromising the systems. This training course would target such areas where systems are secured via hardening using Windows/3rd party tools and how we can evade hardening to gain unrestricted system access. After having system access trying to elevate privilege within the Windows system. Learning these techniques would help in pentest, designing tools securely which can be used in commercial products or enterprise systems.

Date
7-8 May 2026
Time
09:30 AM IST
Venue
Training Ground
Format
Training
BSides Kerala 2026