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The Cyber Defence Lab aims to be a center of excellence in all aspects of cyber defence: protection, detection, incident response and management. Research topics include Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) detection, detection of compromised IoT devices, social media intelligence and cyber ranges.
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Profiles
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CITADEL Range: Cyber Infrastructure for Training in Advanced Defence Exercises and Learning
Debatty, T. (Promotor)
1/11/25 → 30/04/29
Project: Research
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ACRES: Autonomous Cyber Red Teaming System
Mees, W. (Promotor) & Makdis Antoun, E. (Researcher)
1/02/25 → 31/01/29
Project: Research
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Automated red teaming for cyber range-based training
Mees, W. (Promotor)
1/09/24 → 31/08/28
Project: Research
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Cybersecurity challenges and opportunities of machine learning-based artificial intelligence
Czaja, P., Gdowski, B., Niemiec, M., Mees, W., Stoianov, N., Votis, K., Kharchenko, V., Katos, V. & Merialdo, M., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Neural Computing and Applications.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Dataset of APT Persistence Techniques on Windows Platforms Mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Riahi, A. & Debatty, T., 2025, Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks, ICIN 2025. Paganelli, F., Rojas, E., Mitton, N., Naboulsi, D., Borsatti, D. & Rovedakis, S. (eds.). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 17-24 8 p. (Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks, ICIN 2025).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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Enhancing Cyber Situation Awareness: Visualizing Advanced Persistent Threats as Complex Systems
Nikolov, G., Varga, M., Panganiban, A. R., Kullman, K. & Lavigne, V., 2025, Availability, Reliability and Security - ARES 2025 International Workshops, Proceedings. Coppens, B., Volckaert, B., De Sutter, B. & Naessens, V. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 90-107 18 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 15995 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Activities
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Security Evaluation of the Crypto National Products using the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (CC)
Gheysen, G. (Poster presenter), Mees, W. (Co-author) & Bontemps, L. (Co-author)
13 Dec 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Scientific poster presentation
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IST WINTER MEETING 2024 “Visual Analytics for Complex Systems Research”
Rahal, K. (Participant), Nikolov, G. (Participant), Varga, M. (Participant) & Winkelholz, C. (Participant)
20 Nov 2024Activity: Other › Participation to a NATO STO RTG/ET
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Dataset of APT Persistence Techniques on Windows Platforms Mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Rahal, K. (Speaker)
20 May 2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk at a scientific Seminar
Student theses
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Design and analysis of distributed k-nearest neighbors graph algorithms
Debatty, T. (Author), Mees, W. (Supervisor) & Michiardi, P. (Supervisor), 5 Oct 2018Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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A multi-criteria clustering approach to support attack attribution in cyberspace
Thonnard, O. (Author), Mees, W. (Supervisor) & Dacier, M. (Supervisor), 31 Mar 2010Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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Protecting network intrusion detection systems from evasion attacks
DEBICHA, I. (Author), Debatty, T. (Supervisor) & Dricot, J. M. (Supervisor), 20 Apr 2023Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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