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most citedGENIO: Synergizing Edge Computing with Optical Network Infrastructures

5 citations · 11 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.SE2026

Automated Vulnerability Injection in Smart Contracts Using Large Language Models

Luca Migliaccio, Roberto Natella, Naghmeh Ivaki +2

Assessing vulnerability detection tools for smart contracts requires datasets with known ground truth, yet such datasets are scarce and difficult to build by hand. We propose an ap…

cs.NI2026

GenioSim: A Novel Simulation Platform for Edge Computing over Optical Networks

Carmine Cesarano, Alessio Foggia, Roberto Natella

The convergence of Passive Optical Networks (PONs) and edge computing creates new opportunities: Optical Line Terminals (OLTs) and Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) can be repurpose…

cs.CR2025

FuzzBox: Blending Fuzzing into Emulation for Binary-Only Embedded Targets

Carmine Cesarano, Roberto Natella

Coverage-guided fuzzing has been widely applied to address zero-day vulnerabilities in general-purpose software and operating systems. This approach relies on instrumenting the tar…

cs.CR2025

GoLeash: Mitigating Golang Software Supply Chain Attacks with Runtime Policy Enforcement

Carmine Cesarano, Martin Monperrus, Roberto Natella

Modern software supply chain attacks consist of introducing new, malicious capabilities into trusted third-party software components, in order to propagate to a victim through a pa…

cs.CR2025

Security-by-Design at the Telco Edge with OSS: Challenges and Lessons Learned

Carmine Cesarano, Alessio Foggia, Gianluca Roscigno +2

This paper presents our experience, in the context of an industrial R&D project, on securing GENIO, a platform for edge computing on Passive Optical Network (PON) infrastructures,…

cs.CR2025★ 4 cited

KubeFence: Security Hardening of the Kubernetes Attack Surface

Carmine Cesarano, Roberto Natella

Kubernetes (K8s) is widely used to orchestrate containerized applications, including critical services in domains such as finance, healthcare, and government. However, its extensiv…

cs.DC2025★ 5 cited

GENIO: Synergizing Edge Computing with Optical Network Infrastructures

Carmine Cesarano, Alessio Foggia, Gianluca Roscigno +2

Edge computing has emerged as a paradigm to bring low-latency and bandwidth-intensive applications close to end-users. However, edge computing platforms still face challenges relat…

cs.CR2024

GoSurf: Identifying Software Supply Chain Attack Vectors in Go

Carmine Cesarano, Vivi Andersson, Roberto Natella +1

In Go, the widespread adoption of open-source software has led to a flourishing ecosystem of third-party dependencies, which are often integrated into critical systems. However, th…

cs.CR2024★ 2 cited

Securing an Application Layer Gateway: An Industrial Case Study

Carmine Cesarano, Roberto Natella

Application Layer Gateways (ALGs) play a crucial role in securing critical systems, including railways, industrial automation, and defense applications, by segmenting networks at d…