Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering

My research activities focus on modeling the humans’ role in cybersecurity, connecting them to standard and repeatable methods, and designing visual analytics solutions to support them. Research activities on the information needs of cybersecurity professionals had been applied in different fields of cybersecurity, among the others:

• Support security managers and top management in making decisions on security activities required to implement cybersecurity standards and guidelines;
• Support advanced technical activities, such as dissection of software, malware, and binary files by designing and developing ad-hoc visual analytics solutions;
• Support vulnerability assessment and risk-based analysis proposing new threat models and tailored visual analytics environments gathering information from different sources and unfolding the relation and the impact of underlying network and security events on the mission operations of the monitored network.

Strictly related to the this field, I investigate the threats posed by the end-users of ICT networks that may behave insecurely from a cybersecurity point of view, increasing the network exposure.

The conducted activities led also to contributions in the visual analytics and information visualization domains, among the others: analysis of the dimension arrangements problem in RadViz visualization and proposal of a new metric and sub-optimal arrangements to minimize the distortions, proposal of visual selectors providing feedback during filtering activities, and exploration of progressive visual analytics techniques for clustering analyses.