Former Heads of Unit
- Alessandro Armando (Founder and Head of Unit from 2010 to 2016, now Full Professor at DIBRIS, University of Genoa)
- Silvio Ranise (Head of Unit from 2017 to 2020, now Director of Center at Center for Cybersecurity, Fondazione Bruno Kessler; Full Professor at Department of Mathematics, University of Trento)
Former Members
- Alberto Siena (Researcher until 2020)
- Alessandro Tomasi (Researcher until 2023)
- Annibale Panichella (Post-doc Researcher in 2014)
- Biniam Fisseha Demissie (Researcher from 2019 to 2022)
- Clara Bertolissi (Visiting Researcher from 2011 to 2013)
- Elham Arshad (Researcher from 2023 to 2025)
- Emanuele Viglianisi (Technologist until 2019)
- Giacomo Zanolli (Junior Researcher from 2022 to 2023)
- Giovanni Maria Abbiati (Consultant until 2020)
- Giuseppe Alessio Sciumè (Junior Researcher from 2022 to 2023)
- Laura Piva (Visiting PhD Student in 2024)
- Mariano Ceccato (Researcher until 2019)
- Matteo Leonelli (Junior Researcher from 2019 to 2020)
- Matteo Bitussi (Research Assistant from 2022 to 2024)
- Riccardo Traverso (Post-doc Researcher from 2014 to 2016)
- Riccardo Lussana (Research Assistant from 2023 to 2024)
- Salimeh Dashti (Researcher from 2021 to 2022)
- Sergii Kushch (Researcher until 2019)
- Simone Brunello (Research Assistant from 2024 to 2025)
Former PhD Students
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                    Alessio Coletta (Cycle XXIX, University of Trento, 2018)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Specification-based Predictive Continuous Monitoring for Cyber Physical Systems with Unobservables (link)
 Supervisor: Alessandro Armando
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                    Amir Sharif (Cycle XXXIII, University of Genoa, 2021)
                    
                        
                            
                        
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Analysis of Best Current Practices to Assist Native App Developers with Secure OAuth/OIDC Implementations (link)
 Supervisor: Roberto Carbone | Co-supervisors: Silvio Ranise, Giada Sciarretta
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                    Andrea Bisegna (Cycle XXXV, University of Genoa, 2023)
                    
                        
                            
                        
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Automated Security Testing for Identity Management of Large-scale Digital Infrastructures (link)
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Roberto Carbone
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                    Avinash Sudhodanan (Cycle XXIX, University of Trento, 2017)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Black-Box Security Testing of Browser-Based Security Protocols (link)
 Supervisor: Alessandro Armando | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Luca Compagna
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                    Biniam Fisseha Demissie (Cycle XXX, University of Trento, 2019)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Security Testing of Permission Re-delegation Vulnerabilities in Android Applications (link)
 Supervisor: Mariano Ceccato
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                    Daniel Ricardo dos Santos (Cycle XXIX, University of Trento, 2017)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Automatic Techniques for the Synthesis and Assisted Deployment of Security Policies in Workflow-based Applications (link)
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Luca Compagna, Serena Elisa Ponta
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                    Federico Sinigaglia (Cycle XXXI, University of Genoa, 2020)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Security Analysis of Multi-Factor Authentication Security Protocols (link)
 Supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Gabriele Costa
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                    Giada Sciarretta (Cycle XXX, University of Trento, 2018)
                    
                        
                            
                        
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A Methodology for the Design and Security Assessment of Mobile Identity Management: Applications to real-world scenarios (link)
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Alessandro Armando, Roberto Carbone
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                    Hari Siswantoro (Cycle XXIX, 2018)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Automated Analysis and Synthesis for the Compliance of Privacy and Other Legal Provisions (link)
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Alessandro Armando
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                    Majid Mollaeefar (Cycle XXXIV, University of Genoa, 2022)
                    
                        
                            
                        
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Automating the Quantification and Mitigation of Risks for Multiple Stakeholders (link)
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise
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                    Marco Pernpruner (Cycle XXXVI, University of Genoa, 2024)
                    
                        
                            
                        
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Integrating Security by Design and Automated Security Analysis for Digital Identity Management (link)
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
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                    Nadia Metoui (Cycle XXIX, University of Trento, 2018)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Privacy-Aware Risk-Based Access Control Systems (link)
 Supervisor: Alessandro Armando | Co-supervisor: Michele Bezzi
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                    Salimeh Dashti (Cycle XXXIII, University of Genoa, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: An Assisted Methodology to Conduct Data Protection Impact Assessment (link)
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise
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                    Salvatore Manfredi (Cycle XXXV, University of Genoa, 2023)
                    
                        
                            
                        
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Automated Assistance for Actionable Security: Security and Compliance of TLS Configurations (link)
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
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                    Stefano Berlato (Cycle XXXVI, University of Genoa, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A Security Service for Performance-Aware End-to-End Protection of Sensitive Data in Cloud Native Applications (link)
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Roberto Carbone
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                    Tahir Ahmad (Cycle XXXII, University of Genoa, 2020)
                    
                        
                            
                        
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Access Control for IoT: Problems and Solutions in the Smart Home (link)
 Supervisors: Alessandro Armando, Silvio Ranise
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                    Tuan Anh Truong (Cycle XXVII, University of Trento, 2015)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Efficient Automated Security Analysis of Complex Authorization Policies (link)
 Supervisor: Alessandro Armando | Co-supervisor: Silvio Ranise
Former Bachelor's and Master's Students
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                    Adrien Beaugendre (Master's Student, University of Rennes 1 and University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A Flexible Risk Analysis on MuFASA Tool
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Marco Pernpruner
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                    Agnieszka Kowalska (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2023-2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Automatic Security Testing Tool for Identity Management Protocols
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                    Alessandro Pegoraro (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Payment Services Directive 2 in the Wild - A comparison between Open Banking UK and NextGenPSD2
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Salvatore Manfredi
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                    Alessandro Colombo (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Attribute Based Encryption for Advanced Data Protection in IoT with MQTT
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Stefano Berlato, Roberto Carbone
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                    Alessandro Biasi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Syntax and Semantics of a Declarative Language for Security Testing of Browser-based Security Protocols
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Alessandro Fontana (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Rilevamento Automatico di Vulnerabilità TLS su iOS e Android
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Salvatore Manfredi, Matteo Rizzi
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                    Alessio Valenza (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2020)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Autenticazione bancaria post-PSD2: siamo al sicuro? Analisi automatica del rischio di protocolli di autenticazione
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Marco Pernpruner
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                    Andrea Bissoli (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2025)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: PILLAR: an LLM-based Privacy Threat Modeling Tool
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Majid Mollaeefar
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                    Carlotta Tagliaro (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Security and Performance tradeoffs in the Internet of Things
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Umberto Morelli
 Awards: 4th place at thesis award "Innovare la sicurezza delle informazioni 2020", sponsored by CLUSIT
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                    Chaudhry Muhammad Suleman (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Cyber-security Risk Assessment for Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility Application to Cooperative Lane Merging
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Stefano Berlato
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                    Claudio Grisenti (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2020)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A pentesting tool for OAuth and OIDC deployments
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Damiano Sartori (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Attribute Based Access Control over a Hyperledger Fabric Network: An application for Electronic Health Records
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Umberto Morelli, Alessandro Tomasi
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                    Daniele Del Sale (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Procedure di autenticazione multi-fattore basate su push notification: Analisi dello stato dell'arte e specifica delle best-practice per un'implementazione sicura
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
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                    Davide Piva (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Assisting Developers in Securing OAuth 2.0 Deployment: Demystifying Threats and Protection Techniques for Bearer Credentials
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
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                    Eleonora Marchesini (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Cybersecurity Chatbot for Identity Management Protocols: the SAML and Slack Use Case
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Enrico Donatoni (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Blockchain in Finance: a comparison of Ripple, Quorum and Corda
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Umberto Morelli, Alessandro Tomasi
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                    Enrico Marconi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Combining Blockchain-as-a-Service and Cryptographic Access Control for Secure Data Sharing Across Multiple Organizations
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Stefano Berlato
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                    Erica Elia (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A Key Recovery Protocol based on Threshold Secret Sharing for Cryptographic Access Control in the Cloud: The CryptoAC use case
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Stefano Berlato
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                    Federico Cucino (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Miglioramento delle capacità di analisi di TLSAssistant - Automatizzazione delle mitigazioni per NGINX
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Salvatore Manfredi, Giada Sciarretta
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                    Federico Graziola (Master's Student, University of Verona, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Potenzialità e sfide nell'analisi formale di protocolli per l'identità digitale con Tamarin
 Supervisor: Mariano Ceccato | Co-supervisors: Marco Pernpruner, Giada Sciarretta
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                    Filippo De Grandi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: BAS Tools - Implementation of an Attack Pattern to Mimic a Threat Actor
 Supervisor: Domenico Siracusa | Co-supervisors: Matteo Rizzi, Salvatore Manfredi, Pietro De Matteis
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                    Filippo Grilli (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2025)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Security Analysis of a Protocol for Authenticated Session Transfer in Digital Ecosystems: Integration of HTTP Message Signatures and User Binding
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Marco Pernpruner
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                    Francesco Defilippo (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Attack Patterns for Pentesting SAML 2.0 Web Browser Single Sign-On deployments
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Giacomo Zanolli (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: FIDO2 Passwordless Authentication: From the basics to an implementation in the context of an authorization system
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Marco Pernpruner
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                    Gianluca Sassetti (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Privacy Guidelines and Compliance Analysis for OpenID Connect Deployments
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Amir Sharif, Giada Sciarretta, Roberto Carbone
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                    Giovanni Ferronato (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Multi-factor Authentication Through Push Notification and NFC-enabled Identity Card: A solution for secure authentication in unsecure contexts
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
 Awards: 3rd place at thesis award "Innovare la sicurezza delle informazioni 2019", sponsored by CLUSIT
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                    Giulio Pellizzari (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Design and implementation of a tool to detect Login Cross-Site Request Forgery in SAML SSO: G Suite case study
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Giulio Pellizzari (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2020)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Micro-Id-Gym: A Tool to Support Sandboxing and Automated Pentesting of Identity Management Protocols
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Giuseppe Lamorgese (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Autenticazione password-less con FIDO2: Descrizione del flusso e considerazioni sulla sicurezza
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
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                    Giuseppe Alessio Sciumè (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A Comprehensive Analysis of the OAuth 2.0 Threat Model to Develop a Chatbot Providing Actionable Security Suggestions
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Andrea Bisegna
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                    Giuseppe Alessio Sciumè (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2025)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: An LLM Based Approach to the Automated Generation and Validation of Security Tests for National Digital Identity Solutions: The Case of SPID and CIE
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Andrea Bisegna
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                    Ion Andy Ditu (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Leveraging Trusted Execution Environment for Efficient Revocation and Security in Cryptographic Access Control
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Stefano Berlato
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                    Ivan Martini (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: An automated security testing framework for SAML SSO deployments
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Ivan Valentini (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Estensione delle capacità di analisi di TLSAssistant - Rilevazione e mitigazione di ALPACA, POODLE e Raccoon
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Salvatore Manfredi, Giada Sciarretta
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                    Kaleem Ullah Kaleem Ullah (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Countering Rebroadcast Attacks Against Remote Identity Proofing
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Cecilia Pasquini
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                    Leonardo Xompero (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A Survey of Risk-Based Authentication: How features and security actions can be used to mitigate attackers
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Marco Pernpruner
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                    Lorenzo Tait (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A Customized Threat Modeling for Secure Deployment And Pentesting of SAML SSO Solutions
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Lorenzo Bellesso (Postgraduate Student, University of Genoa, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Implementazione di una soluzione di generazione e rilascio credenziali in ambito IoT fondata sull'uso della Carta d'Identità Elettronica (CIE)
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Umberto Morelli
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                    Luca Morgese (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Designing and Implementing a DLT Based Access Control Mechanism for Healthcare Data - A Proof of Concept
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Alessandro Tomasi
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                    Luca Bazzanella (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Analysis of the State of the Art of DevSecOps: The Gitlab case study
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Luigi Dell'Eva (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Chatting is Healthy: How Better Cybersecurity Hygiene can be Obtained by Integrating Chatbots with Pentesting Tools
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone, Eleonora Marchesini
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                    Marco Pernpruner (Master's Student, University of Verona, 2019)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A passwordless out-of-band authentication protocol based on eID cards and push notifications: Design and formal security analysis
 Supervisor: Massimo Merro | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Roberto Carbone
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                    Marco Frassoni (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: European Digital Identity Wallet and ePrescriptions: finding the right balance between security, privacy and legal aspects
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
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                    Mario Scuro (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A Performance Analysis of the BBS Protocol
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Alessandro Tomasi
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                    Marta Toniolli (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Developing an Android client for user enrollment with CIE 3.0 and distributed ledger interaction: An application to electronic health record access control
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Alessandro Tomasi
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                    Marta Arisi (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Blockchain and e-health: seeking compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation
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                    Martina Vecellio Reane (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Automated Security and Risk Analysis of Remote Identity Proofing Procedures
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Marco Pernpruner, Giada Sciarretta
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                    Matteo Rizzi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: TLS Analyzers for Android Apps: State-of-the-art Analysis and Integration in TLSAssistant
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Salvatore Manfredi
 Awards: 3rd place at thesis award "Innovare la sicurezza delle informazioni 2021", sponsored by CLUSIT
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                    Matteo Longato (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Verifiable credentials applied to self reporting applications
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Alessandro Tomasi
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                    Matteo Leonelli (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Open and Cross-platform Ecosystem for Enterprise Services: Secure and Authenticated Access with the use of Italian Identity Cards and FIDO
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Umberto Morelli
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                    Matteo Bitussi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Declarative Specification of Pentesting Strategies for Browser-based Security Protocols: the Case Studies of SAML and OAuth/OIDC
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Matteo Bregola (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Comprehensive Analysis of Breach and Attack Simulation Tools - A Theoretical and Framework-Driven Assessment of Their Capabilities, Advantages, and Limitations
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Matteo Rizzi, Salvatore Manfredi, Pietro De Matteis
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                    Mattia Bressan (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Towards Risk Assessment of Adversarial Machine Learning
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Majid Mollaeefar
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                    Mattia Maramotti (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2025)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Testing as a Service for the Security and Compliance of Identity Management Solutions: Enhancing MIG A Scalable Abstract Architecture for Conformance Verification of Network Protocol Implementations
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone, Laura Cristiano, Pietro De Matteis
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                    Michele Zucchelli (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Pimp My Micro-Id-Gym: Enhancing the Automation and Usability of a Security Testing Tool for Digital Identity Protocol
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Mirco Bisoffi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Lo Smishing e la Threat Intelligence Platform
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Biniam Fisseha Demissie
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                    Mirko Schicchi (Bachelor's Student, 2018)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: IOTA and the Internet of Things: A possible solution for autonomous driving vehicles
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Umberto Morelli, Alessandro Tomasi
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                    Niccolò Lechthaler (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2025)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Towards the Parametrization of Security Testing Tools for IdM Implementations: The MIG-T Case Study
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Laura Cristiano, Pietro De Matteis
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                    Nicola Casagrande (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Dematerialized Documents: The Italian Driving License Use Case
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Tahir Ahmad
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                    Nizar Nadif (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2025)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Validating TLS Implementations via Bytestream Parsing - A Context-Free Language Approach
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Salvatore Manfredi, Riccardo Germenia
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                    Pier Guido Seno (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: From Local to Remote: Enhancing MIG-T Pentesting Tool with SaaS for Securing Digital Identity
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone, Laura Cristiano
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                    Riccardo Germenia (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A Module to Evaluate the Security Compliance of TLS Deployments: Design and Implementation of a Mechanized Methodology
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Salvatore Manfredi, Matteo Rizzi
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                    Riccardo Ziglio (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Challenge-Based Liveness Detection vs Video Manipulation: Analysis of Face Swaps Attacks in Remote Identity Proofing Scenarios
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Cecilia Pasquini
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                    Roberta Peracchio (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Exploring Digital Travel Credentials: A Comparative Study of Existing Solutions and Image Quality Assessment for Face Recognition
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Tahir Ahmad, Cecilia Pasquini
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                    Roberto Savi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Integrating Pentesting Tools for Identity Management Protocols into DevSecOps: The MIG-T Use Case
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone, Laura Cristiano, Pietro De Matteis
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                    Rupert Gobber (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Design and implementation of a verifiable credentials service for a data marketplace
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Giada Sciarretta, Alessandro Tomasi
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                    Salvatore Manfredi (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Assisting users in securing TLS configurations
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Giada Sciarretta
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                    Sara Sorrentino (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Use of Gamification for Effective Cybersecurity Awareness Programs: Study and Design of a Novel Framework
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Salvatore Manfredi, Matteo Rizzi
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                    Saverio Turetta (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Analysis of the State of the Art in Android Dynamic Analysis Tools
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Amir Sharif
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                    Simone Avancini (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A First Appraisal of Threat Modeling for EU Digital Identity Wallets
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Amir Sharif, Giada Sciarretta
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                    Sofia Puttin (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2020)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: 5G-BSA-ID cryptoband - Analisi giuridica alla luce delle disposizioni in materia di trattamento dei dati e tutela della privacy
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                    Sofia Zanrosso (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Enlarging the Pen-Test Coverage of SAML Single Sign-On Solutions with Cyber Threat Intelligence
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Sonia Eccher (2014)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Risk Assessment Smart Campus
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                    Stefano Berlato (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2019)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: A Pragmatic Approach to Handle "Honest But Curious" Cloud Service Providers: Cryptographic Enforcement of Dynamic Access Control Policies
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Roberto Carbone
 Awards: 3rd place at thesis award "Innovare la sicurezza delle informazioni 2020", sponsored by CLUSIT
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                    Stefano Facchini (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2020)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Design and implementation of an automated tool for checking SAML SSO vulnerabilities and SPID compliance
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Stefano Da Roit (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2022)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Automated Detection of DoS Attacks in MQTT 5.0 Brokers
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Umberto Morelli
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                    Stefano Camposilvan (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Estimating the Likelihood of Successful Adversarial Examples Transferability
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisor: Majid Mollaeefar
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                    Valentina Odorizzi (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2018)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Progettazione e sviluppo di uno strumento per l'analisi automatica di vulnerabilità "Missing XML Validation" in SAML SSO
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
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                    Veronica Cristiano (Master's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Key Management for Cryptographic Enforcement of Access Control Policies in the Cloud: The CryptoAC use case
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Roberto Carbone, Stefano Berlato
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                    Vincenzo Chiarini (University of Trento, 2017)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Studio dell'usabilità di soluzioni di Single Sign-On e autenticazione forte per applicazioni mobile.
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                    Wendy Barreto (Bachelor's Student, University of Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Thesis: Design and implementation of an attack pattern language for the automated pentesting of OAuth/OIDC deployments
 Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Andrea Bisegna, Roberto Carbone
Former FBK Junior Students
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                    Alessandro Merlo (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
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                    Andrea Brandolini (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2022-2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
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                    Daniel Franchini (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Virtualization of TLS vulnerabilities
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                    Davide Modena (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Awareness - percezione del rischio
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                    Emiliano Rizzonelli (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2024)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Virtualization of TLS vulnerabilities
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                    Federica Mascia (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Awareness - percezione del rischio
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                    Filippo Benedetti (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
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                    Giovanni Marchi (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
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                    Leonardo Vicentini (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
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                    Matilde Salaorni (Liceo Steam International, Rovereto, 2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: OSINT e l'assessment del rischio nei social media
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                    Matteo Paolo Furlan (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
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                    Mattia Conci (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: OSINT e l'assessment del rischio nei social media
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                    Mattia Andreolli (Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico "Michelangelo Buonarroti", Trento, 2022-2023)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
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                    Nicolò Micheletti (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
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                    Rayhana Taoufik (Liceo "Antonio Rosmini", Rovereto, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101
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                    Yuri Tomasini (Liceo Scientifico "Leonardo Da Vinci", Trento, 2021)
                    
                    
                        
 Internship topic: Cybersecurity 101