Bio

I am a Senior Research Scientist and team leader at Telefonica Research, where my work focuses on research at the intersection of security, networking and systems. In 2018, I obtained a PhD degree from the COSIC research group (KU Leuven, Belgium) under the supervision of Prof. Bart Preneel and Dr. Dave Singelée. My doctoral thesis is entitled Security and Privacy of Implantable Medical Devices. Following my PhD, I held positions as a visiting research fellow at the University of Padua (Italy) and as a research fellow at the University of Birmingham (UK). Throughout my career, I have published several papers in Core A/A* conferences such as CCS, NDSS, MobiSys, TCHES, ACSAC and Euro S&P. Additionally, I have contributed to the acquisition and execution of several national and European projects, worked on ideas that resulted in five patents, and successfully supervised several bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD students. Currently, my work focuses on the security of new networking and computing paradigms and arquitectures such as Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), programmable data planes (e.g., through P4), containers (and similar sandboxes), WebAssembly security, confidential computing or serverless computing, among others. Recently, I have also initiated a new research line in Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI).

Selected Publications

Dynamic Frequency-Based Fingerprinting Attacks against Modern Sandbox Environments
D. Roy Dipta, T. Tiemann, B. Gulmezoglu, E. Marin and T. Eisenbarth. IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (Euro S&P 2024)

Ambusher: Exploring the Security of Distributed SDN Controllers through Protocol State Fuzzing
J. Kim, M. Seo, E. Marin, S. Lee, J. Nam, and S. Shin. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS 2024)

Heimdallr: Fingerprinting SD-WAN Control-Plane Architecture via Encrypted Control Traffic
M. Seo, J. Kim, E. Marin, M. You, T. Park, S. Lee, S. Shin and J. Kim. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2022) (acceptance rate: 24%)

EqualNet: A Secure and Practical Defense for Long-term Network Topology Obfuscation
J. Kim+, E. Marin+, M. Conti and S. Shin. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2022) (acceptance rate: 16,2%)

PPFL: Privacy-preserving Federated Learning with Trusted Execution Environments
F. Mo, H. Haddadi, K. Katevas, E. Marin, D. Perino and N. Kourtellis. ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2021) (acceptance rate: 22%)

An In-depth Look Into SDN Topology Discovery Mechanisms: Novel Attacks and Practical Countermeasures
E. Marin, N. Bucciol and M. Conti. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2019) (acceptance rate: 16%)

A Tale of Two Worlds: Assessing the Vulnerability of Enclave Shielding Runtimes
J. Van Bulck, D. Oswald, E. Marin, A. Aldoseri, F. D. Garcia and F. Piessens. ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2019) (acceptance rate: 16%)

Fast, Furious and Insecure: Passive Keyless Entry and Start Systems in Modern Supercars
L. Wouters, E. Marin, T. Ashur, B. Gierlichs and B. Preneel. Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES 2019) (Site).

Physical-Layer Fingerprinting of LoRa devices using Supervised and Zero-Shot Learning
P. Robyns+, E. Marin+, W. Lamotte, P. Quax, D. Singelée and B. Preneel. ACM Conference on Security & Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2017) (acceptance rate: 22%)

On the (in)security of the Latest Generation Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators
E. Marin, D. Singelée, F. Garcia, T. Chothia, R. Willems and B. Preneel. ACM Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2016) (acceptance rate: 23%)