Program
Friday, June 27th, 2025The time shown in this schedule is the time in Budapest (UTC+2)
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Registration / SETUP
9:00 a.m. – 9:20 a.m.
Opening and Project Introduction
Session Chair: Daniele Bringhenti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
9:20 a.m. – 10:30 p.m.
Keynote speech
Session Chair: Fulvio Valenza, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Keynote Title: Securing the Future: Cybersecurity Challenges and Solutions for Softwarized and Virtualized 5G and Beyond Networks
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Session Chair: Martin Husák, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Enhancing Artificial Intelligence with Verification Techniques to Support Automated Moving Target Defense in Cloud Composite Services
Toward the Optimization of Automated VPN Configuration
Leveraging PQC and Blockchain for Secure and Verifiable SDN Controller Communication
Transparent Notary Service: A transparency framework for secure and verifiable network evidence
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Session Chair: Alessandra Rizzardi, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Context Discovery for Digital Service Chain with OpenC2
Organizing and augmenting cybersecurity knowledge using generative AI
Real-time Network Cyber Situational Awareness in B5G networks
Attack Surface Management: State of the Art and Operational Challenges
3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Session Chair: Andrea Melis, Università di Bologna, Italy
Image-Based Frequency-Domain Analysis for Robust DDoS Detection in SDN
A Distributed and Self-organizing Attack Model in Hyperbolically Embedded Networks
A VPN-as-a-Service Tailored Enabler for Computing-constrained Environments
The Resilmesh Architecture: Situation Aware Enabled Cyber Resilience for Dispersed, Heterogenous Cyber Systems
4:55 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada
Short Bio – Raouf Boutaba is a University Professor and the Director of the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Before that he served as the Associate Dean Research (2016-2019) and the Associate Dean Innovation and Partnership (2019-2020) in the Faculty of Mathematics. Between 2017 and 2022, he held an INRIA International Chair in France and currently holds a University Chair and the Rogers Chair in Network Automation at Waterloo. His research interests are in the areas of network and service management. He has published extensively in this area and received over 20 journal and conference and journal best paper awards, including the IEEE CNOM test of time award. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (2007-2010) and served as the Editor-in- Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (2018-2021). He received several awards, including the Silver Core from IFIP, the Hal Sobol, the Salah Aidarous, the Joe LociCero, the Dan Stokesbury, and the Donald W. McLellan awards from the IEEE Communications Society, and the McNaugthon Gold Medal from IEEE Canada. He is fellow of the IEEE, the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society of Canada.
Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Technical Session 1 – Verifiable and Optimized Network Security
Remi Badonnel, University of Lorraine & LORIA, France
Seshu Tirupathi, TELECOM Nancy - LORIA/INRIA & RESIST Research Team, France
Nicolas Schnepf, INRIA Nancy Grand Est, France
Christophe Bianco, University of Lorraine, Ireland
Gianmarco Bachiorrini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Daniele Bringhenti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Fulvio Valenza, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Javier Jose Diaz Rivera, CCTC, Spain
Ricard Vilalta, CCTC, Spain
Raul Muñoz, CCTC, Spain
Pol Alemany, CCTC, Spain
Lluis Gifre Renom, CCTC, Spain
Ana Méndez, Telefónica Innovación Digital, Spain
Lucía Cabanillas Rodríguez, Telefónica Innovación Digital, Spain
Diego Lopez, Telefónica Innovación Digital, Spain
Lunch Break & Project Poster Session
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Technical Session 2 – Knowledge-Driven Network Security
Silvio Tanzarella, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Matteo Repetto, CNR-IMATI, Italy
Alice Piemonti, Martel Innovate, Switzerland
Vito Cianchini, Martel Innovate, Switzerland
Michail Danousis, University of the Aegean & Eight Bells LTD Greek Branch, Greece
Harry Skianis, University of the Aegean, Greece
Jose Antonio Pastor Valera, University of Murcia, Spain
Martin Husák, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Jorge Bernal Bernabe, University of Murcia, Spain
Antonio Skarmeta Gomez, University of Murcia, Spain
Martin Husák, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Lukáš Sadlek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. – 4:55 p.m.
Technical Session 3 – Resilient and Adaptive Network Security Architectures
Ramin Fuladi, Ericsson & Boğaziçi, Turkey
Bilal Çiçek, Ericsson Research, Turkey
András Majdán, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Lejla Pašić, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Daniel Ficzere, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Gergely Hollósi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Jozsef Biro, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Carolina Fernández-Martínez, i2CAT Foundation, Spain
César Cajas Parra, i2CAT Foundation, Spain
Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui, i2CAT Foundation, Spain
Jorge Bernal Bernabe, University of Murcia, Spain
Brian Lee, Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland
Martin Husák, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Lukáš Sadlek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
Branka Stojanovic, Joanneum Reserach, Austria
Michael Somma, Joanneum Reserach & TU Graz, Austria
Jorgeley Inacio de Oliveira, Silentpush, Ireland
Ekam Puri Nieto, University of Murcia, Spain
Pablo Fernández Saura, University of Murcia, Spain
Antonio Skarmeta Gomez, University of Murcia, Spain
Vinh Hoa La, Montimage & Paris Saclay University, France
Closing
Session Chairs: Fulvio Valenza, Politecnico di Torino, Italy - Matteo Repetto, CNR-IMATI, Italy