Evidence-based security research applied to real investigations.
Pratikar’s research lineage spans insider threat prediction, behavioral analysis, malware techniques and explainable security analytics — grounded in peer-reviewed work and practical investigation experience.
Open Source Initiative
SATARK
Scalable Automated Technology for Analysis and Ranking of Known Threats — an open-source security analytics framework and open-source initiative of Pratikar.
SATARK provides a plugin-first architecture for building explainable detection pipelines across insider threats, malware, phishing, cloud, identity, email and web security. The framework is being rebuilt in public with transparent scoring and reproducible detections.
Research focus
Work that informs how Pratikar investigates incidents and designs detection-oriented analysis.
Insider threat prediction
Behavioral analysis, Threat-Rank scoring, and forensic techniques for identifying internal risk.
Malware & web security
Malicious code analysis, web application vulnerabilities and detection-oriented forensic methods.
Explainable analytics
Transparent risk scores with evidence, confidence and reasoning — not unexplained numbers.
Investigation methodology
Connecting behavioral signals, technical evidence and incident reconstruction across domains.
Selected publications
Full bibliography and BibTeX available on satark.org/research.
Insider Threats & Behavioral Analysis
An Architecture for Detection and Incident Response of Insider Cyber Threats
Kaushal Bhavsar, Rushal Chauhan, Krunal Panchal, J.S. Shah
National Conference on Technology and Management, SPCE Visnagar · 2012
An insider cyber threat prediction mechanism based on behavioral analysis
Kaushal Bhavsar, Bhushan H. Trivedi
ICT4SD 2015, Springer · pp. 345–353 · 2016
Predicting Insider Threats by Behavioural Analysis using Deep Learning
Kaushal Bhavsar, Bhushan Trivedi
International Conference on Security & Management · CSREA Press · pp. 97–101 · 2018
Prediction of Insider Cyber Threats Using Behavioral Analysis
Kaushal Bhavsar
PhD thesis, Department of Computer Application and IT, GLS University · 2021
Detection of Insider Threat Based on Forensic Analysis of Windows
Kaushal Bhavsar, Bhushan Trivedi
ICT Analysis and Applications, Springer Nature Singapore · pp. 565–573 · 2022
Web Security & Malware
Techniques for malware analysis
Savan Gadhiya, Kaushal Bhavsar
International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering · 2013
Frontline techniques to prevent web application vulnerability
Shashank Khandelwal, Parthiv Shah, Kaushal Bhavsar, Savita Gandhi
Int. J. Advanced Research in Comput. Sci. Electron. Eng · 2013
Patents
Computer-based systems configured for malware detection and methods of use thereof
Kaushal Bhavsar
US Patent US 12361127 B1 · 2025
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From research to training
Research on insider threats, malware and security analytics also informs Pratikar's professional training.