1st Edition

ManusCrypt Designed for Mankind – Anthropocentric Information Security

By Prashant A Upadhyaya Copyright 2025
210 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

210 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

210 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Information security primarily serves these six distinct purposes—authentication, authorization, prevention of data theft, sensitive data safety / privacy, data protection / integrity, non-repudiation. The entire gamut of infosec rests upon cryptography. The author begins as a protagonist to explain that modern cryptography is more suited for machines rather than humans. This is explained through... Read more

Biography

Prashant A Upadhyaya is a Post-Doctoral Senior Research Fellow in Strategy at the National School of Leadership, Pune, India; a Fellow of the American Academy of Project Management, Colorado, USA. He is also an executive alumnus of IIM, Indore and IIT, Kanpur. He is a Certified Management Consultant and a Digital Transformation Advisor by profession. He is also a Certified Solutions Architect, Certified Enterprise Blockchain Professional, Certified API Designer / Security Architect / Product Manager and Lead Auditor for Information Security Management System. He has 20 years of experience across several domains and has managed projects across Europe, Middle East, Africa, South Asia and South East Asia. He has been an auditor, consultant and trainer for various MNCs, corporates and SMEs. He has won two awards viz. “Bharat Ratna Dr. Radhakrishnan Gold Medal Award” from GEPRA, Chennai, India and “Best Researcher Award” from VPA, Chennai, India for his contribution to entrepreneurship and process improvement initiatives for SMEs, respectively. Apart from his profession, he is also a “Jyotish Vidya Vachaspati” and known to many as Pt. Vibhootinath.

 

In this book, he has tried to present a new paradigm where everything in the arena of information technology is designed around humans. He has also authored two other books viz. Ternicode: Law of Three (genre: Leadership / Business Management) and Swarbhanu Rahasya: Role of Nodes in Destiny (genre: Astrology /  Indology).