Projects per year
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
Network
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Profiles
Luca Allodi
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Security W&I - Assistant Professor
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Security
Person: UD : Assistant Professor
Alessandro Amadori
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Security W&I - Doctoral Candidate
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD)
Sachin Bhardwaj, MSc
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Security W&I - University Researcher
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, System Architecture and Networking
Person: Prom. : doctoral candidate (PhD), OWP : University Teacher / Researcher
Projects 2016 2020
- 1 Active
OptiLight
Linnartz, J., Bonarius, J., de Kort, Y., Smolders, K., Vogels, I., Peeters, S., Dangol, R., Kruisselbrink, T., Ozcelebi, T., Eijkemans, C., Vereggen - Tielemans, T., Vereggen - Tielemans, T., de Kort, Y. & Hegh, L.
1/11/16 → 31/10/20
Project: Research direct
Research Output 1994 2019
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. 8743282Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
Inductive logic programming (ILP)
Scheduling
Hardware
Industry
A retargetable fault injection framework for safety validation of autonomous vehicles
Fu, Y., Terechko, A., Bijlsma, T., Cuijpers, P. J. L., Redegeld, J. & Ors, A. O., 9 May 2019, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture - Companion, ICSA-C 2019. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 69-76 8 p. 8712351Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
Hardware
User interfaces
Electronic equipment
Health
Robots
Prizes
Best paper award at the 7th International Symposium on Data-driven Process Discovery and Analysis (SIMPDA 2017)
Niek Tax (Recipient), Laura Genga (Recipient) & Nicola Zannone (Recipient), 8 Dec 2017
Recognition: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
Best Paper Award of the 2004 IEEE 16th European Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS)
C.C. Wüst (Recipient), L. Steffens (Recipient), Reinder Bril (Recipient) & W.F.J. Verhaegh (Recipient), 1 Jul 2004
Recognition: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
File
Real time systems
Quality of service
Processing
Best Paper Award of the 2011 IEEE 29th International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) - 2nd place winner
C. Tempelaars (Recipient), M.M.H.P. van den Heuvel (Recipient), Reinder Bril (Recipient) & Christian Hentschel (Recipient), Jan 2011
Recognition: Other › Career, activity or publication related prizes (lifetime, best paper, poster etc.) › Scientific
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Consumer electronics
Processing
Activities 1999 2017
Stockholm International Summit on Cyber Security in SCADA and Industrial Control Systems
Ali Abbasi (Organiser)20 Oct 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Conference › Professional
3rd Cyber Security Workshop in the Netherlands
Stefan Thaler (Organiser)5 Oct 2017
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Workshop, seminar, course or exhibition › Scientific
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD)
Stefan Thaler (Speaker)18 Sep 2017 → 22 Sep 2017
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Contributed talk › Scientific
Press / Media
-TU/e leads national research project for a secure Internet of Things
13/06/19
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
TU/e leads national research project for a secure IoT
12/06/19
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
WIPO PUBLISHES PATENT OF IRDETO FOR "IDENTIFYING AN OBJECT WITHIN CONTENT" (DUTCH INVENTORS)
26/03/19
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Student theses
(In)security of video surveillance systems in building automation systems
Author: Yeh, M., 29 Oct 2018Supervisor: den Hartog, J. (Supervisor 1), Constante, E. (External person) (External coach) & Dagrada, M. (External person) (External coach)
Student thesis: Master
Accurate, automated and flexible privacy policy conflicts resolution in multiparty systems
Author: Darwish, K., 29 May 2017Supervisor: Zannone, N. (Supervisor 1)
Student thesis: Master
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Active learning in VAE latent space
Author: Tonnaer, L., 25 Sep 2017Supervisor: Menkovski, V. (Supervisor 1), Portegies, J. W. (Supervisor 2) & Holenderski, M. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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