State the threat model
Security begins by naming the adversary, the trusted base and what is outside scope.
About the initiative
An identity built for long-horizon research.
Towards Cybersecurity is an independent research initiative founded by Vaibhav Krishna to investigate trustworthy computation across hardware and systems.
The vision
Independent by design.
The initiative is being built during its founder’s PhD, but its research identity is intended to persist independently of whichever university he joins now or later.
Towards Cybersecurity is not an official IIT or university laboratory. A university affiliation belongs to the individual researcher and will always be represented separately from this initiative.
Mission
Understand what remains trustworthy when the environment is not.
Investigating how computing systems can remain trustworthy even when the surrounding software, operating system, hypervisor or infrastructure cannot be fully trusted.
Research philosophy
Security claims should be bounded and inspectable.
Connect the layers
Hardware mechanisms matter only through the systems and applications that use them.
Build for scrutiny
Research outputs, methods and limitations should be clear enough for others to examine.
Stay institutionally clear
Collaboration and affiliation should never blur the initiative’s independent identity.