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Research interests: Cybersecurity, Internet of Things Security, Fog computing, Blockchain.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENTS

EDUCATION / QUALIFICATIONS

SUPERVISIONS OF PHD STUDENTS

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

2023
Guest editor - Special Issue "Recent Trends and Advances in IoT Security". A special issue of MDPI Sensors (Journal).

2022
TPC Member - 4th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (TPS-ISA).
Session Chair - 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS)

2021
Program Chair - 6th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2021)

2020
Publication Chair - 18th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2020)

2019
Organizing Committee - 6th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2019), Granada, Spain. Certificate of Outstanding Contribution
Organizing Committee - 6th IEEE International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security (SNAMS-2019), Granada, Spain. Certificate of Outstanding Contribution
Organizing Committee - Women in Cyber – a Manifesto for TODAY" workshop  in ACM womENcourage 2019, Rome, Italy.

2018
TPC Member - Workshop on Container-based Systems for Big Data, Distributed and Parallel computing (CBDP), Euro-Par 2018.

2017
Organizing Committee - 13th Semantic MediaWiki Conference, Frankfurt, Germany.

REVIEWER

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (IEEE TIFS), ACM Computing Surveys, Wireless Networks Journal (Springer), Journal of Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), International Journal of Information Security (Springer), ESORICS, WWW, IFIP-SEC, Nordsec, FPS, SDS.

SUPERVISIONS OF MASTER STUDENTS

• Spring 2023: Mihail Adrian Moga, Optimizing SIEM systems for enhanced threat detection, MSc. Thesis (ongoing), Aalborg University in collaboration with Tivoli, Denmark
• Spring 2023: Nicolo Sponziello, Remote Attestation for intermittent devices, MSc. Thesis (ongoing, external co-supervisor), DTU Compute, Denmark
• Spring 2023: Bahawal Waraich, A Remote Attestation-based Trust Management Model in Social IoT, MSc. Thesis (ongoing, external co-supervisor), DTU Compute, Denmark
• Fall 2022: Mariya Smilenova Tacheva, Remote Attestation in Intermittent IoT Devices, MSc. Thesis, DTU Compute, Denmark
• Spring 2022: Ayoub Chouak, Remote Attestation Mechanisms for WebAssembly Enclaves in Widely-Distributed Systems, MSc. Thesis, DTU Compute, Denmark and Aalto University, Finland
• Spring 2022: Swetha Latha Meeranath, Fingerprinting schemes against Post Quantum Cryptography IPsec/IKEv2 encryption appliance, MSc. Thesis, DTU Compute, Denmark, Company SSH Communication Security, Finland, and Aalto University, Finland
• Spring 2022: Christos Grigoriou, Distributed Remote Attestation Protocol through Smart Contracts Technology, MSc. Thesis, DTU Compute, Denmark
• Spring 2022: Robin Troesch, Building a Common Framework for Efficient Remote Attestation Deployment in IoT Networks, MSc. Thesis, DTU Compute, Denmark
• Fall 2021: Sebastian Posselt, Attestation of Distributed Services without Centralized Verification, MSc. Thesis, DTU Compute, Denmark
• Spring 2021: Ragnar Mikael Halldórsson, Control-Flow Attestation of Asynchronous Distributed IoT Services, MSc. Thesis, DTU Compute, Denmark
• Spring 2021: Sigurd Frej Joel Jørgensen Ankergård, Blockchain in Self Attestation for Making Trust Decisions in IoT Networks, MSc. Thesis, DTU Compute, Denmark
• Spring 2021: Andrei Sabau, Scalable and Efficient Remote Attestation Protocol for Large Distributed Event-Based Systems, MSc. Thesis, DTU Compute, Denmark
• Spring 2021: Ágúst Benóný Helgason, An IoT Security Framework Based on Modern IoT Security Standards, MSc. Thesis, DTU Compute (in collaboration with Company Develco Products), Denmark
• Fall 2020: Sigurd Frej Joel Jørgensen Ankergård, A Systematic Survey of Remote Attestation for IoT, Special course, DTU Compute, Denmark
• Fall 2020: Emil Bejder, Penetration Test of Develco IoT Systems, Special course, DTU Compute (in collaboration with Company Develco Products), Denmark
• Fall 2020: Jeppe Hagelskjær Østergaard, Memory Offloading for Remote Attestation on IoT Devices, MSc. Thesis, DTU Compute, Denmark

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journals

• Dushku E., Rabbani M. M., Vliegen J., Braeken A., Dragoni N., and Mentens N. PROVE: Provable Remote attestation for public Verifiability. Journal of Information Security and Applications. 2023 (In press).
• Dushku E., Østergaard, J.H., and Dragoni N. Memory Offloading for Remote Attestation of Multi-Service IoT Devices. Sensors 2022, vol. 22, no. 12. 2022.
• Ankergård S. F. J. J., Dushku E., and Dragoni N. State-of-the-Art Software-Based Remote Attestation: Opportunities and Open Issues for Internet of Things. Sensors, vol. 21, no. 5. 2021.
• Dushku E., Rabbani M. M., Conti M., Mancini L. V., and Ranise S. SARA: Secure Asynchronous Remote Attestation for IoT systems. In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 15, pp.3123–3136. 2020.
• Kott A., Théron P., Drašar M., Dushku E., Günther H., Kont M., LeBlanc B., Losiewicz P., Guarino A., Mancini L.V., Panico A., Pihelgas M., and Rzadca K. Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-Defense Agent (AICA) Reference Architecture, Release 2.0. ICCDC Army Research Laboratory Adelphi United States. 2019.

Conferences

• Debes H.B., Dushku E., Giannetsos Th., and Marandi A. ZEKRA: Zero-Knowledge Control-Flow Attestation. In the 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS). 2023 (To appear).
• Ferens M., Dushku E., and Kosta S. Securing PUFs against ML Modeling Attacks via an Efficient Challenge-Response Approach. In IEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS: MobiSec 2023: Security, Privacy, and Digital Forensics of Mobile Systems and Networks. 2023 (To appear).
• Ankergård S. F. J. J., Dushku E., and Dragoni N. PERMANENT: Publicly Verifiable Remote Attestation for Internet of Things through Blockchain. 14th International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security. 2021.
• Rabbani M. M., Dushku E., Vliegen J., Braeken A., Dragoni N., Mentens N. RESERVE: Remote Attestation of Intermittent IoT devices. In the Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference
  on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys ’21). 2021.
• Østergaard J. H., Dushku E., and Dragoni N. ERAMO: Effective Remote Attestation through Memory Offloading. IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR). 2021.
• Conti M., Dushku E., Mancini L.V. RADIS: Remote Attestation of Distributed IoT Services. In 6th IEEE International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2019). 2019.

Articles in books

• Dushku E., Dragoni N. Secure Software Updates in IoT Devices. In: S. Jajodia, P. Samarati, M. Yung (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2023.
• Dushku E., Dragoni N. Swarm attestation. In: S. Jajodia, P. Samarati, M. Yung (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2023.
• Dushku E., Giannetsos T., Dragoni N. Direct Anonymous Attestation. In: S. Jajodia, P. Samarati, M. Yung (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2022.
• Conti M., Dushku E., Mancini L.V. Distributed Services Attestation in IoT. In From Database to Cyber Security. Springer, ISBN 978-3-030-04834-1, pp.261-273. 2018