Scientific papers

This section contains exclusively peer reviewed content. I wrote a huge volume of introductory papers, columns, and interviews, but they are not included here.

Doctoral Thesis

  • S. Zanero, Unsupervised Learning Algorithms for Intrusion Detection, Ph.D. thesis, DEI Politecnico di Milano, 2006 PDF full text

International Journals

  • P. Perri, S. Zanero, "Lessons Learned from the Italian Law on Privacy". Computer Law and Security Report, vol. 20, issue 4-5, pag. 310-313, 384-389, Elsevier Science, 2004.
  • E. Filiol, M. Helenius, and S. Zanero, "Open Problems in Computer Virology". Journal In Computer Virology, 1(3-4): pag. 55-66, marzo 2006.PDF full text.
  • L.Carettoni, C.Merloni, S.Zanero, "Studying Bluetooth Malware Propagation: the BlueBag Project". IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 5, no. 2, March/April 2007, pp. 17-25. PDF full text.
  • G. Casale, S.Zanero, "GIVS: Integrity Validation for Grid Security". Internation Journal of Critical Infrastructures, vol. 4, no. 3, pag. 319-333, 2008.
  • F. Maggi, S. Zanero, V. Iozzo. "Seeing the Invisible - Forensic Uses of Anomaly Detection and Machine Learning". ACM Operating Systems Review, vol. 42, no. 3, pag. 52-59, April 2008. PDF full text.
  • F. Maggi, M. Matteucci, S. Zanero. "Reducing False Positives In Anomaly Detectors Through Fuzzy Alert Aggregation". Information Fusion, special issue on ``Information Fusion in Computer Security''. Vol. 10(4), pp. 300-311 (2009)
  • S. Zanero. "Wireless Malware Propagation: A Reality Check". IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 70-74, September/October, 2009.
  • F. Maggi, M. Matteucci, and S. Zanero. "Detecting Intrusions through System Call Sequence and Argument Analysis". IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Systems. Vol. 7, Nr. 4, December 2010

Edited international proceedings volumes

  • S. Zanero, editor, "Proceedings of WISTDCS 2008, WOMBAT Workshop on Internet Security Threat Data Collection and Sharing", 21-22 April 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2008.
  • E. Huebner and S. Zanero, editors, "Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Open Source Software for Computer and Network Forensics - OSSCoNF 2008", held in conjunction with IFIP OSS 2008, 10th September 2008, Milan, Italy

Proceedings of International Conferences

  • G. Serazzi, S. Zanero, "Computer Virus Propagation Models", in M. C. Calzarossa, E. Gelenbe, editor, "Performance Tools and Applications to Networked Systems: Revised Tutorial Lectures Performance Tools and Applications to Networked Systems: Revised Tutorial Lectures" Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2965, pag. 26-50, Springer-Verlag, Berlino, Germania, 2004. PDF full text.
  • L. Muttoni, G. Casale, F. Granata, S. Zanero, "Optimal Number of Nodes for Computations in a Grid Environment", 12th EuroMicro Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing, A Coruña, Spain, Feb 2004, pag. 282-289, IEEE conference proceedings. PDF full text.
  • S. Zanero, S. M. Savaresi, "Unsupervised Learning Techniques for an Intrusion Detection System", Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM SAC 2004, pag. 412-419, 14-17 Mar 2004, Nicosia, Cyprus. PDF full text.
  • S. Zanero, "Behavioral Intrusion Detection", Proceedings of the 19th ISCIS Symposium, Antalya, Turkey, October 2004, pag. 657-666, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3280, Springer-Verlag 2004. PDF full text.
  • G. Casale, S.Zanero "GIVS: an Integrity Validation Scheme for Grid Security", Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Science, pag. 69?88, Springer Verlag, 2005. PDF full text.
  • S. Zanero, "Improving Self Organizing Map Performance for Network Intrusion Detection", International Workshop on Clustering High-Dimensional data and its applications, SDM 05 SIAM conference On Data Mining, pag. 30-37, 2005. PDF full text.
  • S. Zanero, "Security and Trust in the Italian Legal Digital Signature Framework", iTrust '05 intl. conf. on Trust Management, pag. 34-44, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3477, Springer-Verlag, May 2005 PDF full text.
  • S. Zanero, "Analyzing TCP Traffic Patterns using Self Organizing Maps", ICIAP 05 - Special session on Pattern Recognition in Computer Security, pag. 83-90, Cagliari, Italy, September 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3617, Springer-Verlag. PDF full text.
  • G. Casale, P. Cremonesi, G. Serazzi and S. Zanero, "Performance Issues in Video Streaming Environments", Workshop FIRB-Perf 2005, pag. 3-14, IEEE Press, 2005. PDF full text.
  • S. Zanero, "Flaws and frauds in the evaluation of IDS/IPS technologies", FIRST 2006 - Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams, Sevilla, Spain, June 2007 . PDF full text.
  • F. Maggi, S. Zanero, "On the use of different statistical tests for alert correlation - Short Paper", Proceedings of RAID 2007 - Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection, pag. 167-177, Surfer's Paradise, Australia, September 2007. PDF full text.
  • C. Altheide, C. Merloni, S. Zanero, "A methodology for the repeatable forensic analysis of encrypted drives", Proceedings of the 2008 European ACM SIGOPS Workshop on System Security, Glasgow, Scotland, March 2008. PDF full text.
  • S. Zanero, G. Serazzi, "Unsupervised Learning Algorithms for Intrusion Detection", IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium 2008, April 2008.
  • S. Zanero. "ULISSE: A Network Intrusion Detection System", In CSIIRW 2008, Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop, Oak Ridge TN, USA, ACM Press, 2008. PDF full text
  • F. Amigoni, F. Basilico, N. Basilico and S. Zanero. "Integrating Partial Models of Network Normality via Cooperative Negotiation - An Approach to Development of Multiagent Intrusion Detection Systems", in 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Sydney, Australia, December 9-12, 2008.
  • A. Galante, A. Kokos and S. Zanero. "BlueBat: Towards Practical Bluetooth Honeypots", in 2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Dresden, Germany, June 2009.
  • A. Frossi, F. Maggi, G. L. Rizzo, S. Zanero, "Selecting and Improving System Call Models for Anomaly Detection", Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment, DIMVA 2009, Como, Italy, July 2009 PDF full text
  • C. Criscione, F. Maggi, G. Salvaneschi, S. Zanero, "Integrated Detection of Attacks Against Browsers, Web Applications and Databases", EC2ND 2009, Milano
  • P. Milani Comparetti, G. Salvaneschi, C. Kolbitsch, E. Kirda, C. Kruegel, S. Zanero, "Identifying Dormant Functionality in Malware Programs", IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2010, Oakland CA
  • A. Volpatto, F. Maggi and S. Zanero, "Effective multimodel anomaly detection using cooperative negotiation", GameSec 2010 Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, Berlin, Germany, 22-23 November 2010
  • S. Zanero. "Observing the tidal waves of malware: experiences from the WOMBAT project", VCON 10: 2nd Vaagdevi International Conference on Information Technology for Real World Challenges, invited paper, Warangal, India, 9-11 December 2010.
  • F. Maggi, A. Sisto, S. Zanero. "A social-engineering-centric data collection initiative to study phishing", First Workshop on Building Analysis Datasets and Gathering Experience Returns for Security (BADGERS 2011). 10 April, 2011, Salzburg, Austria. PDF full text.
  • F. Maggi, S. Zanero. "Is the future Web more insecure? Distractions and solutions of new-old security issues and measures", Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit 2011. 1-2 June, 2011, London, UK
  • F. Maggi, S. Zanero. "System Security research at Politecnico di Milano", 1st SysSec Workshop (SysSec 2011). 6 July, 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • F. Roveta, L. Di Mario, F. Maggi, G. Caviglia, S. Zanero and P. Ciuccarelli. "BURN: Baring Unknown Rogue Networks", VizSec 2011: Symposium on Visualization in Computer Security. PDF full text.
  • L. Sportiello, S. Zanero. "File Block Classification by Support Vector Machines", ARES 2011: Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, August 2011, accepted for publication.
  • F. Maggi, A. Bellini, G. Salvaneschi, and S. Zanero. "Finding Non-trivial Malware Naming Inconsistencies", 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS). 19 December 2011, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
  • F. Maggi, A. Volpatto, S. Gasparini, G. Boracchi, S. Zanero. "A fast eavesdropping attack against touchscreens", 7th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS). 5-8 December, 2011, Malacca, Malaysia.
  • L. Sportiello, S. Zanero. "Context-based File Block Classification", 8th Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, Pretoria, South Africa, January 2012.
  • F. Maggi, S. Zanero. "Integrated Detection of Anomalous Behavior of Computer Infrastructures", IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS). 16-20 April 2012, Maui, Hawaii, US.

Posters and other publications

  • S. Zanero, "Security of the italian legal digital signature scheme", poster presentation, MIRIAM Industrial Days, Workshop on Coding and Cryptography, Milan, 1 Dec 2003. Poster available in PDF.
  • S. Zanero, "Application of unsupervised learning algorithms to intrusion detection in a network-based environment", poster presentation, RAID Symposium (Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection), Sophia-Antipolis, October 2004.
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