Securing software & services
Mobile application security, Android protection, malware detection and policy enforcement in distributed systems.
University of Trento · DISI
Professor · Computer security
Research in the security and privacy of connected systems — from mobile applications and IoT devices to authentication and trusted services.
Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science
University of Trento, Italy

Mobile application security, Android protection, malware detection and policy enforcement in distributed systems.
Protection of resource-constrained devices, trusted computing and intrusion detection in cyber-physical systems.
Behavioural biometrics, OAuth security, access control and trust across organisational boundaries.
Selected projects from the original research portfolio; activity status is historical.
Monitoring, enforcing and auditing security and compliance in dynamic service architectures. Scientific coordination by Bruno Crispo.
A European cybersecurity research and training network spanning technical, legal, socioeconomic and entrepreneurial perspectives.
Security and privacy for cyber-physical systems and IoT, including medical and wellness applications, with KU Leuven.
From the original website · 2022–2023
OAuth 2.0 Redirect URI Validation Falls Short, Literally
AppBox: A Black-Box Application Sandboxing Technique for Mobile App Management Solutions
A Survey of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) & Natural Habits-based Behavioural Biometric Modalities for User Recognition Schemes
Research spanning web security, IoT protection, mobile authentication and secure distributed systems.
Software-based Trusted Computing Architecture for Resource-constrained Internet of Things Devices
Confused by Path: Analysis of Path Confusion-Based Attacks
Historical bibliography, 1997–2010. More recent announcements appear above.
M. Conti, V. T. N. Nguyen, B. Crispo, "CRePE: Context-Related Policy Enforcement for Android" - 13th International Security Conference: ISC 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6531 Springer 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-18177-1, pp. 331-345
G. Gheorghe, B.Crispo, D. Schleicher, T. Anstett, F. Leymann, R. Mietzner, G. Monakova, "Combining Enforcement Strategies in Service Oriented Architectures" 8th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing ICSOC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6470 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-17357-8, pp. 288-302
S. Ortolani, M. Conti, B. Crispo, Roberto Di Pietro, "Event Handoff Unobservability in WSN". in IFIP WG 11.4 International Workshop, iNetSec 2010, pp. 20-28
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Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI)
University of Trento, Italy