Dr Neetesh Saxena

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BTech, MTech, PhD

2026

• Saxena, N. et al. 2026. Artificial intelligence and industrial cyber‐physical security [Guest Editorial]. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications 11 (1) e70052. (10.1049/cps2.70052)
• Aloraini, F. et al. 2026. FastTrick: socially-engineered phishing e-mail detection using hashing trick. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (10.1109/TKDE.2026.3705635)
• Saxena, N. et al. 2026. Strengthening EV charging infrastructure against mass-scale cyber threats. IEEE Internet Computing 30 (3), pp.39-49. (10.1109/MIC.2026.3684338)

2025

• Kurt, F. et al. 2025. POSTER: Automating ICS Malware Analysis with MITRE ATT&CK. Presented at: ACM AsiaCCS Hanoi, Vietnam 25-29 August 2025. Proceedings of the 20th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. , pp.1806-1808. (10.1145/3708821.3735345)
• Asiri, M. et al. 2025. Frontline responders: Rethinking indicators of compromise for industrial control system security. Computers and Security 154 104421. (10.1016/j.cose.2025.104421)
• Bagchi, P. et al., 2025. Designing quantum-safe lattice-based multi-authority CP-ABE scheme for blockchain-enabled IoT-based consumer healthcare electronics. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics 71 (2), pp.4983-4994. (10.1109/tce.2025.3552021)
• Bin Hulayyil, S. , Li, S. and Saxena, N. 2025. Explainable AI-based intrusion detection in IoT systems. Internet of Things 31 101589. (10.1016/j.iot.2025.101589)
• Shivran, K. S. et al., 2025. Cyber risk identification and classification‐based load forecasting tool for pandemic situationsber risk identification and classification‐based load forecasting tool for pandemic situations. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications 10 (1) e70014. (10.1049/cps2.70014)
• Bin Hulayyil, S. , Li, S. and Saxena, N. 2025. IoT vulnerability detection using featureless LLM CyBert model. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications Sanya, China 17-21 December 2024. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications. IEEE. , pp.2474-2480. (10.1109/TrustCom63139.2024.00343)
• Dodd, C. , Saxena, N. and Maity, 2025. Security analysis of smart home devices: Smart life and Philip Hue. Presented at: IEEE PerCom - International Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust in the Internet of Things (SPT-IoT) Washington, USA 17-21 March 2025. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops). IEEE. , pp.398-403. (10.1109/PerComWorkshops65533.2025.00098)

2024

• Prateek, K. , Maity, S. and Saxena, N. 2024. QSKA: A quantum secured privacy-preserving mutual authentication scheme for energy internet-based vehicle-to-grid communication. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 21 (6), pp.6810-6826. (10.1109/TNSM.2024.3445972)
• Rotibi, A. , Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2024. Winning the battle with cyber risk identification tools in industrial control systems: A review. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications 9 (4), pp.350-365. (10.1049/cps2.12105)
• Li, S. , Iqbal, M. and Saxena, N. 2024. Future industry internet of things with aero-trust security. Information Systems Frontiers 26 , pp.1653-1666. (10.1007/s10796-021-10199-5)
• Kishor, K. et al., 2024. Federated learning for smart communication using IoT application. New York: Chapman and Hall/CRC. (10.1201/9781003489368)
• Alrowaili, Y. , Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2024. Towards developing an asset-criticality identification framework in smart grids. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Workshop on Security, Privacy and Resilience of Critical Assets in Critical Infrastructure (SPARC) London, UK 2-4 Sept 2024. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR). IEEE. , pp.720-725. (10.1109/CSR61664.2024.10679477)
• Bhadoria, R. S. , Saxena, N. and Nagpal, B. 2024. Conclusion and wrap-up. In: Bhadoria, R. S. , Saxena, N. and Nagpal, B. eds. Blockchain Technology for Secure Social Media Computing. The Institution of Engineering and Technology. , pp.221-222. (10.1049/pbse019e_ch13)
• Rotibi, A. et al. 2024. System-level operational cyber risks identification in industrial control systems. Cyber-Physical Systems (10.1080/23335777.2024.2373388)
• Aljohani, R. , Saxena, N. and Bhadoria, R. S. 2024. Security issues and challenges in cloud computing. In: Alharahsheh, H. H. and Mazumdar, A. eds. Handbook of Research on Cloud Computing Applications in SMES. IGI Global
• Afenu, D. S. , Asiri, M. and Saxena, N. 2024. Industrial control systems security validation based on MITRE adversarial tactics, techniques, and common knowledge framework. Electronics 13 (5) 917. (10.3390/electronics13050917)

2023

• Nafees, M. N. et al. 2023. Smart grid cyber-physical situational awareness of complex operational technology attacks: A review. ACM Computing Surveys 55 (10), pp.1-36. 215. (10.1145/3565570)
• Nafees, M. N. , Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2023. POSTER: Adaptive moving target defense: Enhancing dynamic perturbation through voltage sensitivity analysis in power systems. Presented at: 21st International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2023) Kyoto, Japan 19-22 June 2023. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2023). Vol. 13907.Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer. , pp.700-704. (10.1007/978-3-031-41181-6_43)
• Alrowaili, Y. et al. 2023. Review: Monitoring situational awareness of smart grid cyber-physical systems and critical asset identification. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications 8 (3), pp.160-185. (10.1049/cps2.12059)
• Verma, G. et al., 2023. CB-DA: Lightweight and escrow-free certificate-based data aggregation for smart grid. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 20 (3), pp.2011-2024. (10.1109/TDSC.2022.3169952)
• Asiri, M. et al. 2023. Understanding indicators of compromise against cyber-attacks in industrial control systems: a security perspective. ACM transactions on cyber-physical systems 7 (2), pp.1-33. (10.1145/3587255)
• Saxena, N. , Potter, C. and Maity, S. 2023. Clarity: Analysing security in web applications. Presented at: COMSNETS Bengaluru, India 3-8 January 2023. 2023 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS). IEEE. , pp.522-528. (10.1109/COMSNETS56262.2023.10041289)
• Mohammed, A. S. et al. 2023. Detection and mitigation of field flooding attacks on oil and gas critical infrastructure communication. Computers and Security 124 103007. (10.1016/j.cose.2022.103007)
• Asiri, M. , Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2023. Advancing resilience of cyber-physical smart grid: An integrated co-simulation approach incorporating indicators of compromise. Presented at: International Workshop on Re-design Industrial Control Systems with Security (RICSS) in conjunction with IEEE EuroS&P Delft, Netherlands 3-7 July 2023. 2023 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). IEEE. , pp.370-378. (10.1109/eurospw59978.2023.00047)
• Rotibi, A. et al. 2023. Extended dependency modelling technique for cyber risk identification in ICS. IEEE Access 11 , pp.37229-37242. (10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3263671)
• Rotibi, A. , Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2023. Poster: Using causal inference to extract hidden information from dependency modelling. Presented at: IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P) Delft, Netherlands 3-7 July 2023.

2022

• Nafees, M. N. , Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2022. On the efficacy of physics-informed context-based anomaly detection for power system. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids Singapore 25-28 October 2022. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm). IEEE(10.1109/SmartGridComm52983.2022.9961034)
• Nafees, M. N. , Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2022. Physics-informed augmentation for contextual anomaly detection in smart grid. Presented at: ACM CCS Los Angeles, USA 7-11 November 2022. CCS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. ACM. , pp.3427-3429. (10.1145/3548606.3563533)
• Althunayyan, M. et al. 2022. Evaluation of black-box web application security scanners in detecting injection vulnerabilities. Electronics 11 (13) 2049. (10.3390/electronics11132049)
• Khan, R. et al., 2022. ATVSA: vehicle driver profiling for situational awareness. Presented at: IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, ACSW Genoa, Italy 06-10 June 2022. 2022 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW). IEEE. , pp.348-357. (10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00042)
• Mohammed, A. S. , Saxena, N. and Rana, O. 2022. Wheels on the modbus - attacking ModbusTCP communications. Presented at: 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2022) San Antonio, TX, United States 16-19 May 2022. WiSec '22: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks. New York: ACM. , pp.288-289. (10.1145/3507657.3529654)
• Merlino, J. C. , Asiri, M. and Saxena, N. 2022. DDoS cyber-incident detection in smart grids. Sustainability 14 (5) 2730. (10.3390/su14052730)
• Kumar, A. et al., 2022. Improving detection of false data injection attacks using machine learning with feature selection and oversampling. Electronics 15 (1) 212. (10.3390/en15010212)
• Ali, S. S. et al., 2022. Image forgery detection using deeplearning by recompressing the images. Electronics 11 (3) 403. (10.3390/electronics11030403)
• Kumar, P. , Maity, S. and Saxena, N. 2022. A quantum communication based secure road condition monitoring application in intelligent internet of vehicular things. Presented at: IEEE INDICON Kerala, India 24-26 November 2022.

2021

• Nafees, M. N. , Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2021. Optimized predictive control for AGC cyber resiliency. Presented at: 2021 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) Seoul, South Korea 14-19 November 2021. CCS '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. ACM. , pp.2450-2452. (10.1145/3460120.3485358)
• Orr, F. et al., 2021. Securing publisher-subscriber in smart grid infrastructure. Electronics 10 (19) 2355. (10.3390/electronics10192355)
• Liu, C. et al., 2021. Cyber risks to critical smart grid assets of industrial control systems. Energies 14 (17) 5501. (10.3390/en14175501)
• Asiri, M. , Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2021. Investigating usable indicators against cyber-attacks in industrial control systems. Presented at: 17th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (USENIX Security 2021) Online 8-10 August 2021. USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2021. USENIX
• Burke, G. and Saxena, N. 2021. Cyber risks prediction and analysis in medical emergency equipment for situational awareness. Sensors 21 (16) 5325. (10.3390/s21165325)
• Karunarathne, S. M. , Saxena, N. and Khan, M. K. 2021. Security and privacy in IoT smart healthcare. IEEE Internet Computing 25 (4), pp.37-48. (10.1109/MIC.2021.3051675)
• Chugh, N. et al., 2021. A novel anomaly behavior detection scheme for mobile ad hoc networks. Electronics 10 (14) 1635. (10.3390/electronics10141635)
• Saxena, N. et al. 2021. Impact evaluation of malicious control commands in cyber-physical smart grids. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing 6 (2), pp.208-220. (10.1109/TSUSC.2018.2879670)
• Nafees, M. N. , Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2021. Specification-based process control attack detection in substation automation. Presented at: 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021 Virtual 23-27 May 2021.
• Asad, B. and Saxena, N. 2021. On the feasibility of DoS attack on smart door lock IoT network. Presented at: 8th International Symposium on Security in Computing and Communications (SSCC 2020) Virtual 14-17 October 2020. Security in Computing and Communications. Vol. 1364.Springer. , pp.123-138. (10.1007/978-981-16-0422-5_9)
• Sharma, U. et al., 2021. Optimized authentication system with high security and privacy. Electronics 10 (4) 458. (10.3390/electronics10040458)
• Gope, P. , Millwood, O. and Saxena, N. 2021. A provably secure authentication scheme for RFID-enabled UAV applications. Computer Communications 166 , pp.19-25. (10.1016/j.comcom.2020.11.009)
• Kumar, A. , Saxena, N. and Choi, B. J. 2021. Machine learning algorithm for detection of false data injection attack in power system. Presented at: 35th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN 2021) Jeju Island, Korea 13-16 January 2021. Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Information Networking. IEEE. , pp.385-390. (10.1109/ICOIN50884.2021.9333913)
• Alrowaili, Y. , Saxena, N. and Burnap, P. 2021. Determining asset criticality in cyber-physical smart grid. Presented at: 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2021) Online 4-8 October 2021.
• Kumar, A. , Saxena, N. and Choi, B. J. 2021. FedTLG: federated learning using trusted local groups. Presented at: 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2021) Virtual 07-11 June 2021.

2020

• Nafees, M. N. et al. 2020. Impact of energy consumption attacks on LoRaWAN-enabled devices in industrial context. Presented at: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2020) Virtual 9-13 November 2020. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. , pp.2117-2119. (10.1145/3372297)
• Saxena, N. et al. 2020. Impact and key challenges of insider threats on organizations and critical businesses. Electronics 9 (9) 1460. (10.3390/electronics9091460)
• Tung, Y. et al., 2020. Counteracting UDP flooding attacks in SDN. Electronics 9 (8) 1239. (10.3390/electronics9081239)
• Saxena, N. et al. 2020. PharmaCrypt: blockchain for critical pharmaceutical industry to counterfeit drugs. Computer 53 (7), pp.29-44. (10.1109/MC.2020.2989238)
• Saxena, N. et al. 2020. BVPSMS: A batch verification protocol for end-to-end secure SMS for mobile users. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 17 (3), pp.550-565. (10.1109/TDSC.2018.2799223)
• Saxena, N. et al. 2020. Introduction to the special issue on user-centric security and safety for CPS [Editorial]. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems 4 (3) 29. (10.1145/3392715)
• Bhadoria, R. S. , Nimbalkar, A. and Saxena, N. 2020. On the role of Blockchain technology in the Internet of Things. In: Kim, S. and Deka, G. C. eds. Advanced Applications of Blockchain Technology. Springer. , pp.129-140.
• Asad, B. , Saxena, N. and Katos, V. 2020. Analysis of the security and privacy risks and challenges in smart cities’ traffic light system. Presented at: 3rd Smart Cities Symposium (SCS 2020) Virtual 21-23 September 2020. Proceedings of the 3rd Smart Cities Symposium. IEEE. , pp.226-232. (10.1049/icp.2021.0940)
• Nafees, M. N. et al. 2020. Towards distance relay attack discrimination for situational awareness-based anomaly detection. Presented at: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2020) Virtual 7-11 December 2020.
• Singh, V. et al., 2020. Improving smart healthcare safety & security using Kinect. Presented at: International Conference on Cybersecurity in Emerging Digital Era (ICCEDE 2020) Greater Noida, India 9-10 October 2020.

2019

• Adewole, K. , Saxena, N. and Bhadauria, S. 2019. Application of cryptocurrencies using Blockchain for e-commerce online payment. In: Maleh, Y. et al., Blockchain for Cybersecurity and Privacy: Architectures, Challenges and Applications. C&C Press, Taylor & Francis Group. , pp.263-306.
• Saxena, N. et al. 2019. BAS-VAS: A novel secure protocol for value added service delivery to mobile devices. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 15 , pp.1470-1485. (10.1109/TIFS.2019.2940908)

2018

• Saxena, N. and Choi, B. J. 2018. Integrated distributed authentication protocol for smart grid communications. IEEE Systems Journal 12 (3), pp.2545-2556. (10.1109/JSYST.2016.2574699)
• Saxena, N. and Grijalva, S. 2018. Efficient signature scheme for delivering authentic control commands in the smart grid. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 9 (5), pp.4323-4334. (10.1109/TSG.2017.2655014)
• Chaudhary, R. et al., 2018. LSCSH: Lattice-based secure cryptosystem for smart healthcare in smart cities environment. IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE 56 (4), pp.24-32. (10.1109/MCOM.2018.1700787)
• Saxena, N. , Grijalva, S. and Choi, B. J. 2018. Securing restricted publisher-subscriber communications in smart grid substations. Presented at: International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) Bengaluru, India 3-7 Jan. 2018. 2018 10th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks (COMSNETS). IEEE. , pp.364-371. (10.1109/COMSNETS.2018.8328220)
• Stone, J. A. , Saxena, N. and Dogan, H. 2018. Systematic analysis: Resistance to traffic analysis attacks in Tor System for critical infrastructures. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on System, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Miyazaki, Japan 7-10 Oct. 2018. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). IEEE. , pp.2832-2837. (10.1109/SMC.2018.00482)
• Saxena, N. and Chaudhari, N. S. 2018. Secure algorithms for SAKA protocol in the GSM network. Presented at: 10th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC) Valencia, Spain 25-27 Sep. 2017. 2017 10th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC). IEEE. , pp.1-8. (10.1109/WMNC.2017.8248853)

2017

• Saxena, N. et al. 2017. CPSA: A cyber-physical security assessment tool for situational awareness in smart grid. Presented at: ACM Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security & Privacy (CPS-SPC) in Conjunction with ACM CCS Dallas, USA 3 Nov. 2017. CPS '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security and PrivaCy. ACM. , pp.69-79. (10.1145/3140241.3140246)
• Saxena, N. et al. 2017. Network Security and Privacy Challenges in Smart Vehicle-to-Grid. IEEE Wireless Communications 24 (4), pp.88-98. (10.1109/MWC.2016.1600039WC)
• Saxena, N. and Grijalva, S. 2017. Dynamic secrets and secret keys based scheme for securing last mile smart grid wireless communication. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 13 (3), pp.1482-1491. (10.1109/TII.2016.2610950)
• Saxena, N. , Choi, B. J. and Grijalva, S. 2017. Secure and privacy-preserving concentration of meeting data in AMI networks. Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Paris, France 21-25 May 2017. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). IEEE. , pp.1-7. (10.1109/ICC.2017.7996874)

2016

• Saxena, N. , Grijalva, S. and Chaudhari, N. S. 2016. Authentication Protocol for an IoT-Enabled LTE Network. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 16 (4), pp.-. 25. (10.1145/2981547)
• Saxena, N. and Choi, B. J. 2016. Authentication scheme for flexible charging and discharging of mobile vehicles in the V2G networks. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 11 (7), pp.1438-1452. (10.1109/TIFS.2016.2532840)
• Saxena, N. , Choi, B. J. and Lu, R. 2016. Authentication and authorization scheme for various user roles and devices in smart grid. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 11 (5), pp.907-921. (10.1109/TIFS.2015.2512525)

2014

• Saxena, N. and Chaudhari, N. S. 2014. EasySMS: a protocol for end to end secure transmission of SMS. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 9 (7), pp.1157-1168. (10.1109/TIFS.2014.2320579)