Mohit Sethi is a Research Fellow at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) in Finland. He also works in the industry as a Product Security Expert at KONE and is currently serving a 2.5-year term as a member of the Advisory Group of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA). He was previously a Senior Researcher at Ericsson.
Mohit’s work focuses on applied network security for Internet-connected IoT devices ranging from small sensors to large-scale industrial systems such as elevators and escalators. His research is driven by practical challenges faced in industry, and his research results have had direct impact on real-world industrial deployments. His research has been published in top conferences, and he has received Best Paper Awards at the ACM UbiComp and IEEE IoT conferences. He also holds over 20 granted international patents.
Mohit has also contributed extensively to IoT standardization at the IETF, co-authoring RFC 8576, RFC 9140, and RFC 9191. He has chaired the Security Dispatch (secdispatch), Light-Weight Implementation Guidance (LWIG), and EAP Method Update (EMU) working groups of the IETF. He received a Doctor of Science (DSc.) degree in Computer Science from Aalto University in 2017 and previously completed a dual MSc. degree in Security and Mobile Computing from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, and Aalto University, Finland.
Sample of publications
[1] Mariam Moustafa, Mohit Sethi, and Tuomas Aura. "Misbinding Raw Public Keys to Identities in TLS." Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024.
[2] Abu Shohel Ahmed, Aleksi Peltonen, Mohit Sethi, and Tuomas Aura. "Security analysis of the consumer remote sim provisioning protocol." ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security 27, no. 3 (2024): 1-36.