Corrado Leita

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ABOUT CORRADO LEITA

I\'m in charge of the Network team at Lastline Inc. in London, UK. Before that, I have worked for more than 5 years as a researcher in Symantec Research Labs, the Symantec group in charge of long-term exploratory research. I obtained my Bachelor degree in 2003 and a Master’s in Computer Science and Engineering in 2006, both from the Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy). During this period, I joined the EURECOM institute (Sophia Antipolis, France) and performed there the last part of my studies. In 2005 I also obtained a Research Master’s in Networks and Distributed Systems from the ESSI (Sophia Antipolis, France). My master thesis was the result of six months of work in the Pervasive Computing Group of IBM Zurich Research Labs. After my Master, I joined EURECOM\'s PhD program and I obtained my Ph.D. in 2008 from the University of Nice. My PhD thesis focused on network intrusion detection, where I proposed a distributed honeypot deployment capable of collecting malware propagation information also in presence of 0-day attacks.In my research I have been mainly interested in the collection of intelligence on the threat landscape and on the use of this intelligence to devise more effective ways to counter attackers. I was involved in a number of past and current research projects aiming at this goal, such as WOMBAT and VIS-SENSE, and I have been acting for two years as coordinator for the CRISALIS FP7 project, which focuses specifically on the protection of industrial control systems from sophisticated targeted attacks. I have been involved over the years in a number of program committees for major security conferences such as the Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), Financial Crypto, the Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment (DIMVA) and the NATO-organized International Conference on Cyber Conflict, as well as journals such as ACM Transactions on Information and Systems Security (TISSEC).