Organization profile

Introduction / mission

The interconnectivity and pervasiveness of computers and embedded systems is not only determining new functionalities, but is also opening the way to increasingly sophisticated attacks. In recent years the field of security has become a key focus of computer science research around the globe. The mission of the Security group (SEC), which is part of EPSI, the Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information, is to realize a more secure and privacy-preserving digital infrastructure. We believe this goal can only be achieved by investigating the overall cybersecurity problem, tackling the engineering, deployment, management, and maintenance perspectives of systems and ICT infrastructures. Our research interests are a reflection of this and span from security deployment and management, to physical security and attack engineering.

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The SEC group takes a multi-faceted approach to the full systems security process in order to counter today’s security challenges.

Organisational profile

Cybersecurity challenges are innumerable: from advanced and nation-state malware, evolving evasive attack techniques, to the new frontiers of IoT security, access control, and physical security. In reaction to this, SEC’s approach to system security covers offensive and defensive aspects of system security, targeting concrete security problems and addressing the underlying, fundamental issues. SEC’s strength lies in its ability to empirically and theoretically understand the full security process: from attack generation and system management, to policy specification and user aspects.

Research in the Security (SEC) group spans three areas vital to the security of decentralized and embedded systems:

Security policy specification & enforcement
Security of embedded systems
Threat intelligence and defense

SEC sits at the intersection of these areas, addressing challenging operative and theoretical problems: for example, by monitoring underground activities and studying the techno-economic principles driving attack production, SEC maintains a unique perspective on the offensive side of computer security. This understanding is channeled into novel approaches such as new monitoring techniques to detect attacks targeting IT and IoT systems and new adaptive security and authentication mechanisms. SEC has made significant contributions to secure key storage in embedded systems by devising algorithms for randomness extraction from Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). Furthermore, SEC pioneered Quantum Readout of PUFs, an object authentication technology that is immune to spoofing.

Scientific staff: S. Etalle (HGL), W. Michiels (d-HLG, 0.2fte), M. Petkovic (d-HLG,0.2 fte), N. Zannone (UHD), L. Allodi (UD, joined 2017), J. den Hartog (UD), B. Škorić (UD)

Postdocs: Laura Genga, Alexios Lekidis (0fte), Daniel Ricardo dos Santos

PhD students: A. Abbasi, M. Alizadeh, A. Amadori, P. Burda, G. Dupont, D. Fauri, A. Gallucci, H. Van Le, D. Leermakers, S. Ravidas, T. Stanko, S. Thaler, S. Vavilis

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Scheduling Engineering & Materials Science

Access control Engineering & Materials Science

Real time systems Engineering & Materials Science

Cryptography Engineering & Materials Science

Network protocols Engineering & Materials Science

Data storage equipment Engineering & Materials Science

Synchronization Engineering & Materials Science

Communication Engineering & Materials Science

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Profiles

Luca Allodi

l.allodi@tue.nl

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Security W&I - Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Security

Person: UD : Assistant Professor

Alessandro Amadori

A.Amadori@tue.nl

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Security W&I - Doctoral Candidate

Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD)

C.H. (Kees) van Berkel

c.h.v.berkel@tue.nl

Person: HGL : Professor

Projects 2016 2020

1 Active

OptiLight

Linnartz, J. M. G., Bonarius, J. H., de Kort, Y. A. W., Smolders, K. C. H. J., Vogels, I. M. L. C., Peeters, S. T., Dangol, R., Kruisselbrink, T. W., Özçelebi, T., Eijkemans, C., Vereggen - Tielemans, T., Vereggen - Tielemans, T., de Kort, Y. A. W. & Hegh, L.

1/11/16 → 31/10/20

Project: Research direct

Research Output 1994 2020

Enhancing the performance and security of Helper Data Systems

Stanko, T., 23 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press) Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.

Research output: Thesis › Phd Thesis 1 (Research TU/e / Graduation TU/e)

1 Citation (Scopus)

Access control in Internet-of-Things: a survey

Ravidas, S., Lekidis, A., Paci, F. & Zannone, N., 15 Oct 2019, In : Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 144, p. 79-101 23 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Access control

Internet of things

Ecosystems

Industry

Accurate ILP-based contention modeling on statically scheduled multicore systems

Palomo, X., Mezzetti, E., Abella, J., Bril, R. J. & Cazorla, F. J., 1 Apr 2019, Proceedings - 25th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, RTAS 2019. Brandenburg, B. B. (ed.). Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 15-28 14 p. 8743282

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Inductive logic programming (ILP)

Scheduling

Hardware

Industry