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"The key to security is understanding”
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Sandro Etalle leads the Security group where the approach to system security is multi-faceted and covers offensive and defensive aspects of system security, always targeting concrete security problems and addressing the underlying, fundamental issues at their core. The group’s strength lies precisely in its ability to empirically and theoretically understand the full security process: from attack generation and system management, to policy specification and user aspects. Today,Etalle’s research is focused mainly on network monitoring and intrusion detection, with particular emphasis on the security of industrial control systems. Other topics includes policy specification and enforcement, and incident response. With two PhD students, Etalle founded the company SecurityMatters, bringing the result of their research to the market, and at the same time providing a source for insights into how cybersecurity evolvesin real life, leading to new research challenges.His group’s research spans three areas vital to the security of decentralized and embedded systems: (a) Security policy specification & enforcement (b) Security of embedded systems, and (c) Threat intelligence and defense, sitting at the cutting-edge intersection of these areas, addressing particularly challenging operative and theoretical problems.
Academic background
Sandro Etalle obtained his master’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Padova (Italy) and earned his PhD in 1995 at the University of Amsterdam, under the supervision of Prof. K. R. Apt and Prof. A. Bossi. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam, Assistant Professor at the universities of Genova (Italy), Maastricht and Twente, where he lead the spearhead program on Security. After a year as a visiting researcher at the University of Trento, he became full professor at the TU/e. Etalle is one of the authors of the Dutch ‘National Cyber Security Research Agenda’, he has been leader of several national and EU projects, and program chair of several international conferences.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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INTERSECT: NWA.1160.18.301 An Internet of Secure Things - INTERSECT
Weffers, H., Etalle, S., Kempinski, S. P., Luyk, M., Bibi, I., Meratnia, N., Özçelebi, T., Hatefi, Z., van den Brand, M. G. J. & Kurtev, I.
1/09/20 → 31/08/28
Project: Research direct
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SECREDAS GA 783119
den Hartog, J. I., Etalle, S., Zannone, N., Sheikhalishahi, M., Cappers, B. C. M., Dupont, G., Le, D., Gankhuyag, G., Clark, S., Aarts, A. A., Ravidas, S. & Zambon-Mazzocato, E.
1/05/18 → 31/10/21
Project: Research direct
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You Can't Protect What You Don't Understand: Characterizing an Operational Gas SCADA Network
Qin, X., Rosso, M., Cardenas, A. A., den Hartog, J. I., Etalle, S. & Zambon, E., 2022, 2022 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 243-250 8 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Similarity-Based Clustering For IoT Device Classification
Dupont, G., Leite, C., Santos, D. R. D., Costante, E., Hartog, J. D. & Etalle, S., 25 Aug 2021, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems, COINS 2021. IEEE/LEOS, p. 1-7 7 p. 9524201Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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A Matter of Life and Death: Analyzing the Security of Healthcare Networks
Dupont, G., dos Santos, D. R., Costante, E., den Hartog, J. & Etalle, S., 2020, ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection - 35th IFIP TC 11 International Conference, SEC 2020, Proceedings. Hölbl, M., Welzer, T. & Rannenberg, K. (eds.). Springer, p. 355-369 15 p. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; vol. 580 IFIP).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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A survey of network intrusion detection systems for controller area network
Dupont, G., den Hartog, J., Etalle, S. & Lekidis, A., Sept 2019, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety, ICVES 2019. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 6 p. 8906465Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Challenges in designing exploit mitigations for deeply embedded systems
Abbasi, A., Wetzels, J., Holz, T. & Etalle, S., 1 Jun 2019, Proceedings - 4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EURO S and P 2019. Piscataway: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, p. 31-46 16 p. 8806725Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
17 Citations (Scopus)1 Downloads (Pure)
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Automotive Controller Area Network (CAN) Bus Intrusion Dataset v2
Dupont, G. (Contributor), Lekidis, A. (Contributor), den Hartog, J. I. (Contributor) & Etalle, S. (Contributor), 4TU.Centre for Research Data, 14 Nov 2019
DOI: 10.4121/uuid:b74b4928-c377-4585-9432-2004dfa20a5d
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NWO grants 1,2 million euros to cybersecurity research
15/11/18
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