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SeRBER Videos

Videos Marc Dacier delivered a talk at the DSRC Seminar organized online by the Technology Innovation Institute TII in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Elisa Chiapponi presented a teaser of her paper " An industrial perspective on web scrapers' characteristics and open issues" published at the IEEE/IFIP DSN 2022 Industry Track. Marc Dacier discussed SDN's security challenges, debated strategies to monitor and protect SDN-enabled networks, and proposed methods and strategies to leverage SDN's flexibility for designing new security mechanisms. Marc Dacier explained what network security is and how it operates

Security, Privacy, and Human

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B4 L5 R5209

Security and privacy systems are often composed of complex components and details. However, users’ experience shouldn’t be as complex. In this seminar, Eman will discuss the human factor in the security and privacy chain. While human privacy perceptions and behaviors have been investigated in Western societies, little is known about these issues in non-Western societies.

Dependability assessment work at City, University of London and possible synergies with RC3 at KAUST

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B4 L5 R5209

Abstract The talk will give an overview of research at the Department of Computer Science at the City University of London, focusing on the past and current dependability work at the Centre for Software Reliability. The talk will conclude with an overview of related research that is continuing or planned to start at City in 2024 and possible synergies and opportunities for collaboration with RC3 at KAUST. Brief Biography Ilir Gashi holds PhD (2007) and BEng (Honours) (2003) degrees in Software Reliability and Computing, respectively, from the City, University of London, where he is currently a

Marc Dacier

Professor, Computer Science
Leveraging 20+ years of international experience, Professor Dacier leads the charge in uncovering internet vulnerabilities and developing robust defenses, building a more secure digital future for all.

Mahmoud Attia

M.S. Student, Computer Science
Mahmoud Attia is currently an MS/PHD student working with the SeRBER research group led by Prof. Marc Dacier. His research interests are in network security, within the areas of IT and OT security. He previously joined KAUST as a visiting student in the summer of 2023.

Ilies Benhabbour

Ilies is working with professor Marc Dacier on the following subject: Fingerprinting of intra network semi active components in end-to-end communications. That is to say that we want to be able to identify components which may exist between two devices. It can be either something normal like a firewall or a proxy, but it can also be something malicious like a man in the middle attack. The project's goal will thus be to identify how we can do so, and what kind of experiments can be done over the packets to see if these semi active components exist. Another aim would be to create some code that

Hugo Bertin

Hugo is a Visiting Student from the University of Rennes, France. He is interested in the network and system aspects inherent in distributed systems, which often involve a trade-off between security and performance. He joined the SeRBER research group to work on EGaming Security under the supervision of Professor Marc Dacier. The research project aims to investigate the security aspects leveraged by the gaming industry, which experienced unprecedented growth, especially with the surge of Esports and is expected to continue to shape tomorrow's virtual worlds. Massively Multiplayer Online Games

Elisa Chiapponi

I am currently a PhD student in Digital Security enrolled in the Sorbonne Université. I work on my research project at EURECOM and Amadeus, under the supervision of prof. Marc Dacier at KAUST My areas of interest include Network and Web security. My thesis focuses on the analysis and mitigation of the new generation of botnets, in particular the ones performing web scraping. My goal is to find practical means to defeat them. The starting point of my project is understanding the ecosystem of scraping bots. This consists of identifying the actors behind this business and their motivations