Fault and Intrusion Tolerant NEtworked SystemS (FITNESS)

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Faculty/school/department
Department of Economics, Law, Cybersecurity, and Sports Sciences - Department of Engineering
Size of the team
number of researchers number of supporting staff number of PhD students
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Composition of Joint Unit of Research, if relevant

The Fault and Intrusion Tolerant Networked SystemS (FITNESS) research group consists of five Faculties, namely: Luigi Romano, Luigi Coppolino, Salvatore D'Antonio, Roberto Nardone, and Giovanni Mazzeo. 

PI
PI name
Luigi Romano
PI bio

Luigi Romano is an expert of system security and dependability. He has worked extensively as a consultant in the field of security and safety critical computer systems design, evaluation, and procurement in a variety of application domains, notably: ehealth, traffic control, banking, eID, and  data storage.  He is one of the founders of Trust Up (https://www.trustup.it/en/), a spin-off of the University of Naples “Parthenope”, specialized in Trusted Execution Environment technology. He was one of the experts of ENISA EESCP-Expert Group, one of the experts in charge of the ENISA  Annual Report on Cybersecurity Research and Innovation Needs and Priorities, and one of the members of ENISA expert group on Priorities of Research On Current and Emerging Network Technologies (PROCENT). He was/is the Technical Coordinator and/or one of the Principal Investigators of more than 20 European Projects, within the context of FP7, Horizon 2020, and Horizon Europe.

Contact person and e-mail
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Luigi Romano
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Short description of research profile

The Fault and Intrusion Tolerant Networked SystemS (FITNESS) research group does internationally recognized research in  cybersecurity, with emphasis on Critical Infrastructure Protection. A list of selected projects funded within the context of FP7, H2020 and Horizon Europe follows: 

  • STREAM (Scalable Autonomic Streaming Middleware for Real-Time Processing of Massive Data Flows) - FP7-216181 - http://www.streamproject.eu 
  • INTERSECTION (INfrastructure for heTErogeneous, Resilient, SEcure, Complex, Tightly Inter-Operating Networks) - Work programme topic addressed: Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures, Objective ICT-2007.1.4: Secure, dependable and trusted infrastructures - http://www.intersection-project.eu – Technical Coordinator
  • INSPIRE (INcreasing Security and Protection through Infrastructure Resilience) - Work programme topic addressed: Objective ICT-SEC-2007.1.7: Critical Infrastructure Protection - http://www.inspire-strep.eu/ - Technical Coordinator
  • MASSIF (MAnagement of Security information and events in Service InFrastructures) - Work programme topic addressed: objective ICT-5-1.4 - Trustworthy ICT - http://www.massif-project.eu/ 
  • SRT-15 (Intelligence Push in the Enterprise Realm) – FP7-257843 - Work programme topic addressed: objective “Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation”, target outcome “Service Architectures and Platforms for the Future Internet” - http://srt-15.eu/
  • SAWSOC (Situation AWare Security Operations Center, http://www.sawsoc.eu/) - Grant agreement no.: 313034 - Technical Coordinator
  • LeanBigData (http://leanbigdata.eu/), Grant agreement no.: 619606 
  • SERECA (Secure Enclaves for REactive Cloud Applications, http://www.serecaproject.eu/) - Grant agreement no.: 645011 
  • SecureCloud (SECURE BIG DATA PROCESSING IN UNTRUSTED CLOUDS),  https://www.securecloudproject.eu/ - Grant agreement no.: 690111 
  • KONFIDO (Secure and Trusted Paradigm for Interoperable eHealth Services, http://www.konfido-project.eu/konfido/) – Topic: DS-3-2016: Increasing digital security of health related data on a systemic level
  • COMPACT (Competitive Methods to protect local Public Administration from Cyber security Threats) – Topic: Cyber Security for SMEs, local public administration and Individuals -  Technical Coordinator
  • InfraStress (Improving resilience of sensitive industrial plants & infrastructures exposed to cyber-physical threats, by means of an open testbed stress-testing system) - Call:  H2020-SU-INFRA-2018-2019-2020 - Topic:  SU-INFRA-01-2018 ‘Prevention, detection, response and mitigation of combined physical and cyber threats to critical infrastructure in Europe’. Focus: Sensitive Industrial Plants and Sites -  Technical Coordinator
  • 7SHIELD (Safety and Security Standards of Space Systems, ground Segments and Satellite data assets, via prevention, detection, response and mitigation of physical and cyber threats) - Topic SU-INFRA01-2018-2019: Prevention, detection, response and mitigation of combined physical and cyber threats to critical infrastructure in Europe
  • INCISIVE (A multimodal AI-based toolbox and an interoperable health imaging repository for the empowerment of imaging analysis related to the diagnosis, prediction and follow-up of cancer) - Topic: DT-TDS-05-2020: AI for Health Imaging
  • CyberSEAS (Cyber Securing Energy dAta Services) - Call: H2020-SU-DS-2018-2019-2020 - Topic: SU-DS04-2018-2020 / Innovation Action – Technical Coordinator
  • CERTIFY (aCtive sEcurity foR connecTed devIces liFecYcles) - HORIZON-CL3-2021-CS-01-02: Improved security in open-source and open-specification hardware for connected devices
  • ENCRYPT (A SCALABLE AND PRACTICAL PRIVACY-PRESERVING FRAMEWORK) - Call: HORIZON-CL3-2021-CS-01-04 — Scalable privacy-preserving technologies for cross-border federated computation in Europe involving personal data
Publications

Representative publications

L. Coppolino, L. Sgaglione, S. D’Antonio, L. Romano, M. Magliulo, R. Pacelli, “Risk Assessment Driven Use of Advanced SIEM Technology for Cyber Protection of Critical e-Health Processes”. SN COMPUT. SCI. 3, 16 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-021-00858-4
L. Coppolino, S. D’Antonio, L. Romano, “Exposing vulnerabilities in electric power grids: An experimental approach”, International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Vol 7, Issue 1
L. Coppolino, S. D’Antonio, G. Mazzeo, L. Romano, “A comprehensive survey of hardware-assisted security: From the edge to the cloud”, Internet of Things, Volume 6, 2019, 100055, ISSN 2542-6605
G. Mazzeo, S. Arnautov, C. Fetzer and L. Romano, "SGXTuner: Performance Enhancement of Intel SGX Applications via Stochastic Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing  
L. Coppolino, S. D’Antonio, G. Mazzeo, L. Romano, “Cloud security: Emerging threats and current solutions”, Computers & Electrical Engineering, Volume 59, 2017, Pages 126-140, ISSN 0045-7906  
Technology Expertise

Security and Privacy.

Fault tolerance.

CPU architectures.

Distributed Systems.

Cloud Computing.

 

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