Research & Publications | Dr. Saibal Sarkar

Research Profile

Dr. Saibal Sarkar's doctoral research focused on Security and Forensics in e-Governance. His research and professional interests span cybersecurity risk assessment, digital forensics, e-Government security, data-centre security, security knowledge representation and cyber policy.

Publications

2022 · Cybersecurity Risk Assessment

Fuzzy based security risk assessment of e-government data centre in Indian context

Saibal Sarkar; Suvrojit Das · Electronic Government, an International Journal, 18(3), 354–380.

DOI: 10.1504/EG.2022.123838

Research contribution: Develops a fuzzy-logic-based approach for evaluating cybersecurity risk in e-Government data-centre environments.

Accepted / publisher record pending verification

A Practical Approach to Protecting e-Government Data Logs for Security and Forensics

BJIT / Springer — previously listed on the website as accepted.

DOI: Not displayed until a formal publisher record is independently verified.

Research contribution: Addresses protection and preservation of e-Government data logs for security investigation and forensic readiness.

2020 · Security Ontology

Security knowledge representation of e-government data centre through ontology

Saibal Sarkar; Suvrojit Das · Electronic Government, 16(4), 379–409.

DOI: 10.1504/EG.2020.110602

Research contribution: Presents an ontology-based representation of security knowledge for e-Government data-centre environments. Correction: year is 2020, not 2021.

2015 · IEEE Conference

Secure e-Governance: From observation to policy formulation

Saibal Sarkar; Suvrojit Das · 2015 Third International Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP).

DOI: 10.1109/ICIIP.2015.7414767

Research contribution: Connects infrastructure and cloud-related risk observations with security policy and forensic-readiness considerations.

2014 · IEEE Conference

A state level policy framework for integrating DFaaS with e-Governance

Saibal Sarkar; Suvrojit Das · Third International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC-2014).

DOI: 10.1109/PDGC.2014.7030733

Research contribution: Proposes a policy framework for integrating Digital Forensics as a Service (DFaaS) with e-Government. Correction: conference record is 2014, not 2015.

2007 · IEEE Conference

Architecture of a configurable Centered Discrete Fractional Fourier Transform processor

IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), 2007.

DOI: 10.1109/MWSCAS.2007.4488600

Research contribution: Presents a configurable processor architecture for the centered discrete fractional Fourier transform. Correction: the available DOI record corresponds to 2007, not 2005.

Research Themes

Cybersecurity Risk Assessment
e-Government and Digital Governance Security
Digital Forensics and Forensic Readiness
Data Centre Security and Resilience
Security Ontology and Knowledge Representation
Cybersecurity Policy and Governance
Digital Signal Processing

Professional & Academic Development

PhD, National Institute of Technology Durgapur, 2018–2021
M.E., Electronics & Telecommunication (Computer Science), Jadavpur University, 1985–1987
B.E., Electrical Engineering (Digital Electronics), Bengal Engineering College / IIEST Shibpur, 1980–1984
Professional development listed on LinkedIn includes IBM Data Science Orientation, Coursera's AI For Everyone and Fellowship of the Institution of Engineers (India).

Research is informed by a professional career in public-sector digital infrastructure, State Data Centres, e-Governance and cybersecurity leadership.

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