20th TAROT Summer School on Software Testing, Verification & Validation

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Program

 


Monday, June 30th

  • 8.30 - 9.00: Registration
  • 9.00 - 9.10: Welcome - Tarot General Chairs

Session 1

  • 9.10 - 10.40: Advanced Network Fuzzing for Networked System Testing-  Lecturer: Wissam Mallouli
  • 10.40 - 11.00: Coffee Break
  • 11.00 - 12.30: A look into current trends in software testing education -  Lecturer: Anna Rita Fasolino

12.30 - 14.00: Lunch


Session 2

  • 14.00 - 15.30: Digital Twin-Based Security Orchestration, Automation and Response for the Business Continuity of Critical Infrastructures -  Lecturer: Phu Nguyen
  • 15.30 - 16.00: Coffee Break
  • 16.00 - 17.30: Federated Learning: Does It Truly Protect My Privacy?-  Lecturer: Carlo Mazzocca

Tuesday, July 1st

Session 3

  • 9.10 - 10.40: Experiences in Teaching Software Testing By Gamification -  Lecturer: Porfirio Tramontana
  • 10.40 - 11.00: Coffee Break
  • 11.00 - 12.30: AI-Powered Security Analysis -  Lecturer: Zoltán Ságodi

12.30 - 14.00: Lunch


Session 4

  • 16.30 - 18.30: City Tour: Naples Underground

Wednesday, July 2nd

Session 5

  • 9.10 - 10.40: Threat assessment and adversarial testing of AI-based systems -  Lecturer: Eider Iturbe
  • 10.40 - 11.00: Coffee Break
  • 11.00 - 12.30: Attack emulation and simulation for Intrusion Detection System implementation and testing -  Lecturer: Eider Iturbe and Javier Arcas 

12.30 - 14.00: Lunch


Session 6

  • 14.00 - 15.30: Security Assessment and Security Testing: State of the Art and Open Research Challenges -  Lecturer: Massimiliano Rak 
  • 15.30 - 16.00: Coffee Break
  • 16.00 - 17.30: Industry/Projects presentation
    • AI4CYBER: AI-Driven Cybersecurity Solutions for Critical Systems
    • DYNABIC: Dynamic business continuity and response of critical systems against advanced cyber-physical threats
    • Horizon Europe SNS 6G NATWORK Project

20.30: Social Event - Ristorante La Bersagliera


Thursday, July 3rd

Session 7

  • 9.10 - 10.40: Software Security: Theory and Hands-On Training-  Lecturer: Eleni Seralidou
  • 10.40 - 11.00: Coffee Break
  • 11.00 - 12.30: Students and Research Project’s presentations
    • Danilo Gentile - The human factor in phishing: collecting and analyzing user behavior when reading e-mails
    • Annalisa Navarro - Explainable and Scalable Reinforcement Learning for Softwarized Network Management
    • Debora Russo - Synthetic Dataset Generation for Smart City Applications
    • Daniele Iorio - Adaptive Security through Automated Moving Target Defense
    • Antonio Emanuele - Decision Tree Ensembles for Explainable and Efficient Machine Learning at the Edge
    • Umberto Barbato - Methodologies and techniques for Cybersecurity in e-Gaming and Gamification Fields

12.30 - 14.00: Lunch


Session 8

  • 14.00 - 15.30: Industry/Projects presentation
    • The CyberSynchrony Project
    • NERO project: advaNced cybErsecurity awaReness ecOsystem for SMEs
    • CyberSuite project: Uptake of Innovative Security-as-a-Service Solutions
  • 15.30 - 16.00: Coffee Break
  • 16.00 - 17.30: LLMs in Security Code Review and Testing  -  Lecturer: Gurkan Gur

Friday, July 4th

Session 9

  • 9.10 - 10.40: Security Risk Analysis and Assessment -  Lecturer: Alessandra De Benedictis
  • 10.40 - 11.00: Coffee Break
  • 11.00 - 12.30: Students and Research Project’s presentations
    • Quoc Viet Pham - Smart digital twins for a better protection of critical infrastructures
    • Ciro Gallucci - Toward Security-by-Design in Microservices: a Model-Based SecDevOps Framework
    • Teresa Conte - Using the FHIR standard for system design and medical data validation
    • Muhammad Hassan Zaib - Security and Privacy Challenges in Split Learning
    • Palma Errico - Automated framework for Federated Learning evaluation in wellbeing application
    • Valeria Valdes - Resilience techniques for critical infrastructures
    • Felice Moretta - Automating Security Assessment: Formal Graphs, Cyclic Testing, and LLM Reasoning

13.00 - 14.00: Lunch

 

“Students and Research Project’s presentations”: slots where participants can present their work (paper, work in progress, posters, and others)