Organisation profile
Organisation profile
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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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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CERMIL: Certification of software for use in military networks
Debatty, T. (Promotor) & Idrissa, M. (Researcher)
1/01/26 → 31/12/29
Project: Research › DFR
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CITADEL Range: Cyber Infrastructure for Training in Advanced Defence Exercises and Learning
Debatty, T. (Promotor) & Rhouma, Y. (Researcher)
1/11/25 → 30/04/29
Project: Research › EDF
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Learning Robust Penetration Testing Policies under Partial Observability: A systematic evaluation
Simon, R., Libin, P. & Mees, W., 2026, In: Transactions on Machine Learning Research. 2026-AprilResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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NASimJax: GPU-Accelerated Policy Learning Framework for Penetration Testing
Simon, R., Carrasquel, J., Mees, W. & Libin, P., 20 Mar 2026.Research output: Working paper › Preprint
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Visual Analytics for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Nikolov, G., Lavigne, V., Varga, M., Kirtelaa, A., Winkelholz, C., Ndoni, A. & Ray, C., 18 Feb 2026, Visual Analytics for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. NATO Science and Technology OrganizationResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Activities
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Tactical Solutions for Mobile Device Forensics in Military Operations
Croix, A. (First reader)
1 Oct 2023 → 30 Jun 2024Activity: Examination and mentoring › Mentoring Master Thesis
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SecAppDev
Missotten, R. (Participant)
2 Jun 2025 → 4 Jun 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event (conference, measurement campaign, ...) › Attending a course without exam
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Starters Week of Engineering and Education
Missotten, R. (Participant)
9 Feb 2025 → 15 Sept 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event (conference, measurement campaign, ...) › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
Student theses
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Decision Support Elements and Enabling Techniques to Achieve a Cyber Defence Situational Awareness Capability
Llopis, S. (Author), Mees, W. (Supervisor) & Esteve Domingo, M. (Supervisor), 1 Mar 2023Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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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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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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