Security & Trust

Gianluca Sassetti

Gianluca Sassetti PhD Student

Gianluca Sassetti is a PhD student at the University of Genoa working with the Security & Trust research unit of Fondazione Bruno Kessler. He received his MSc in Computer Science from the University of Trento in 2023. His research interests include identity management, authentication protocols (with a focus on OpenID Connect), and digital identity. Currently, he is working on the security and privacy analysis of foundational identity systems.

Publications

2025

  • Giovanni Corti, Gianluca Sassetti, Amir Sharif, Serena Elisa Ponta, Matteo Rizzi, Pietro De Matteis, Luca Piras, Roberto Carbone, Silvio Ranise
    A First Appraisal of NIS2 and CRA Compliance Leveraging Open Source Tools
    In: 12th International Workshop on Evolving Security & Privacy Requirements Engineering (ESPRE 2025) (news)
  • Giovanni Corti, Gianluca Sassetti, Amir Sharif, Roberto Carbone, Silvio Ranise
    Enhancing National Digital Identity Systems: A Framework for Institutional and Technical Harm Prevention Inspired by Microsoft's Harms Modeling
    In: 22nd International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2025) (DOI, news)

2023

  • Gianluca Sassetti, Amir Sharif, Giada Sciarretta, Roberto Carbone, Silvio Ranise
    Assurance, Consent and Access Control for Privacy-Aware OIDC Deployments
    In: Proceedings of the 37th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec 2023) (DOI, news)

Theses

  • Gianluca Sassetti (Master's Thesis, University of Trento, 2023)
    Privacy Guidelines and Compliance Analysis for OpenID Connect Deployments
    Supervisor: Silvio Ranise | Co-supervisors: Amir Sharif, Giada Sciarretta, Roberto Carbone