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Research profile
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.
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Research Output
A survey of network intrusion detection systems for controller area network
Dupont, G., den Hartog, J., Etalle, S. & Lekidis, A., Sep 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
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
Eventpad: Rapid malware analysis and reverse engineering using visual analytics
Cappers, B. C. M., Meessen, P. N., Etalle, S. & Van Wijk, J. J., 9 May 2019, 2018 IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security, VizSec 2018. Trent, S., Kohlhammer, J., Sauer, G., Gove, R., Best, D., Paul, C. L., Prigent, N. & Staheli, D. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 8 p. 8709230Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Leveraging semantics for actionable intrusion detection in building automation systems
Fauri, D., Kapsalakis, M., dos Santos, D. R., Costante, E., den Hartog, J. & Etalle, S., 1 Jan 2019, Critical Information Infrastructures Security - 13th International Conference, CRITIS 2018, Revised Selected Papers. Luiijf, E., Žutautaitė, I. & Hämmerli, B. M. (eds.). Springer, p. 113-125 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11260 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Role inference + anomaly detection = situational awareness in bacnet networks
Fauri, D., Kapsalakis, M., dos Santos, D. R., Costante, E., den Hartog, J. & Etalle, S., 6 Jun 2019, Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment - 16th International Conference, DIMVA 2019, Proceedings. Maurice, C., Giacinto, G., Perdisci, R. & Almgren, M. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 461-481 21 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 11543).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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-TU/e leads national research project for a secure Internet of Things
13/06/19
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TU/e leads national research project for a secure IoT
12/06/19
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TU/e leads national research project for a secure Internet of Things
12/06/19
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EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY : University spin-off SecurityMatters acquired by ForeScout for 113 million dollars
19/11/18
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Student theses
Alert classification of web application attacks: using Bayesian networks to classify alerts from anomaly based intrusion detection systems
Author: Schellekens, C., 31 Jan 2014Supervisor: Etalle, S. (Supervisor 1) & Bolzoni, D. (External person) (External coach)
Student thesis: Master
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An assessment of ECM authentication in modern vehicles
Author: Bokslag, W., 31 Aug 2017Supervisor: Etalle, S. (Supervisor 1)
Student thesis: Master
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Constraint-based detection of advanced threats to ICS
Author: Heesakkers, B., 31 Aug 2017Supervisor: Etalle, S. (Supervisor 1), Costante, E. (Supervisor 2) & Pechenizkiy, M. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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Kintsugi: identifying & addressing challenges in embedded binary security
Author: Wetzels, A., 31 Aug 2017Supervisor: Etalle, S. (Supervisor 1) & Abbasi, A. (Supervisor 2)
Student thesis: Master
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Knowledge needed to develop malware to infect and impact industrial control systems
Author: van de Wouw, D., 30 Nov 2013Supervisor: Etalle, S. (Supervisor 1) & Dimkov, T. (External person) (External coach)
Student thesis: Master
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