40 citations · 134 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for
15 papers
A Survey of Automatic Generation of Attack Trees and Attack Graphs
Alyzia-Maria Konsta, Beatrice Spiga, Alberto Lluch Lafuente +1
Graphical security models constitute a well-known, user-friendly way to represent the security of a system. These kinds of models are used by security experts to identify vulnerabi…
UniquID: A Quest to Reconcile Identity Access Management and the Internet of Things
Alberto Giaretta, Stefano Pepe, Nicola Dragoni
The Internet of Things (IoT) has caused a revolutionary paradigm shift in computer networking. After decades of human-centered routines, where devices were merely tools that enable…
Size Matters: Microservices Research and Applications
Manuel Mazzara, Antonio Bucchiarone, Nicola Dragoni +1
In this chapter we offer an overview of microservices providing the introductory information that a reader should know before continuing reading this book. We introduce the idea of…
Cyber-Storms Come from Clouds: Security of Cloud Computing in the IoT Era
Michele De Donno, Juxhino Kavaja, Nicola Dragoni +2
The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly changing our society to a world where every "thing" is connected to the Internet, making computing pervasive like never before. This tsunami…
Adding Salt to Pepper: A Structured Security Assessment over a Humanoid Robot
Alberto Giaretta, Michele De Donno, Nicola Dragoni
The rise of connectivity, digitalization, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing our society and shaping its future development. During this technological a…
Joining Jolie to Docker - Orchestration of Microservices on a Containers-as-a-Service Layer
Alberto Giaretta, Nicola Dragoni, Manuel Mazzara
Cloud computing is steadily growing and, as IaaS vendors have started to offer pay-as-you-go billing policies, it is fundamental to achieve as much elasticity as possible, avoiding…
Community Targeted Phishing: A Middle Ground Between Massive and Spear Phishing through Natural Language Generation
Alberto Giaretta, Nicola Dragoni
Looking at today phishing panorama, we are able to identify two diametrically opposed approaches. On the one hand, massive phishing targets as many people as possible with generic…
AntibIoTic: Protecting IoT Devices Against DDoS Attacks
Michele De Donno, Nicola Dragoni, Alberto Giaretta +1
The 2016 is remembered as the year that showed to the world how dangerous Distributed Denial of Service attacks can be. Gauge of the disruptiveness of DDoS attacks is the number of…
The Internet of Hackable Things
Nicola Dragoni, Alberto Giaretta, Manuel Mazzara
The Internet of Things makes possible to connect each everyday object to the Internet, making computing pervasive like never before. From a security and privacy perspective, this t…
Microservices: Migration of a Mission Critical System
Nicola Dragoni, Schahram Dustdar, Stephan T. Larsen +1
The microservices paradigm aims at changing the way in which software is perceived, conceived and designed. One of the foundational characteristics of this new promising paradigm,…
Microservices: How To Make Your Application Scale
Nicola Dragoni, Ivan Lanese, Stephan Thordal Larsen +3
The microservice architecture is a style inspired by service-oriented computing that has recently started gaining popularity and that promises to change the way in which software i…
Microservices: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
Nicola Dragoni, Saverio Giallorenzo, Alberto Lluch Lafuente +4
Microservices is an architectural style inspired by service-oriented computing that has recently started gaining popularity. Before presenting the current state-of-the-art in the f…
Social Networks and Collective Intelligence: A Return to the Agora
Manuel Mazzara, Luca Biselli, Pier Paolo Greco +4
Nowadays, acquisition of trustable information is increasingly important in both professional and private contexts. However, establishing what information is trustable and what is…
MITHYS: Mind The Hand You Shake - Protecting mobile devices from SSL usage vulnerabilities
Mauro Conti, Nicola Dragoni, Sebastiano Gottardo
Recent studies have shown that a significant number of mobile applications, often handling sensitive data such as bank accounts and login credentials, suffers from SSL vulnerabilit…
Design of QoS-aware Provisioning Systems
Michele Mazzucco, Manuel Mazzara, Nicola Dragoni
We present an architecture of a hosting system consisting of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constraints, and a certain number of servers used to run users demand. The…