Awards/Talks

Invited Talks

Cyber-deception for cyber-security: at IDA, 2025
DFG Research Training Group (Doctoral School, RTG), Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, 2024
Cyber-deception for cyber-security: at IDA, 2023
8th Homeland Security Conference, 2021
Capture the flag competition, CyberSecurity days 2020, Odense, 2020
Honeypot workshop, Cyber Security Summer School, DTU, Copenhagen, 2020
The Future of Cyber Threats. Nordic Cyber Series, Denmark, 2020
Hack your Neighbour III: Honeypots. At IDA (The Danish Society of Engineers), Denmark, 2020
Botnets: an endless cat and mouse game? At the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU), Denmark, 2019
Towards next-generation collaborative network defense. At the Software and Systems Research Seminar Series, Linköping University, Sweden, 2018
I trust my zombies: a trust-enabled botnet. At the Cybersecurity Seminar, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2017
A short introduction to honeypots. At FOSSCOMM, Athens, Greece, 2013

Best paper award for the paper: Towards bio-inspired cyber-deception: a case study of SSH and Telnet honeypots. 4th Workshop on Active Defense and Deception (AD&D 2025) at IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) 2025
Best paper award for 2024 by the IEEE Communications Society, Internet Technical Committee for the paper: “Towards identifying neglected, obsolete, and abandoned IoT and OT devices“, 2024
Best paper award: for the paper “Towards identifying neglected, obsolete, and abandoned IoT and OT devices“. Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), 2024
Best paper award: for the paper “Towards the creation of synthetic, yet realistic, intrusion detection datasets”. IEEE/IFIP DISSECT, Istanbul, Turkey. 2016
Scholarship Winner: for the attendance of the Honeynet Project workshop. Honeynet Project, Warsaw, Poland. 2014
Doctoral Scholarship: granted from the Technische Universität Darmstadt and the Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt (CASED). Darmstadt, Germany. 2012