Teaching & Theses

A.Y. 2025/2026

• Incident and Event Management
  State General Accounting Office - Ragioneria Generale di Stato (RGS)

A.Y. 2024/2025 

• Practical Part of the course of Strutture dati e algoritmi e complessità

BSc in Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica, Sapienza University of Rome

• Seminar on “Visual Analytics for Information Security Governance” for the course of Visual Analytics

MSc in Engineering in Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome

• Seminar on “Cybersecurity Certification Process” for the course of Security Governance
  MSc in Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome

• Lecture on “Attack Graph: models and applications” for the course of Security Governance
  MSc in Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome

A.Y. 2023/2024 

• Seminar on “Cybersecurity Certification Process” for the course of Security Governance
  MSc in Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome

A.Y. 2022/2023 

• Seminar on “Cybersecurity Certification Process” for the course of Security Governance
  MSc in Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome

• Tutor of the course Dependable Distributed Systems (9 CFU)
  MSc in Engineering in Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome

A.Y. 2021/2022 

• Tutor of the course Fondamenti di Informatica (12 CFU)
  Corso di Laura in Ingegneria Elettronica e Corso di Laurea in Ingegneria delle Comunicazioni, Sapienza Università di Roma

Available Thesis Topics (for more details, contact palma@diag.uniroma1.it)

1. Self-protecting systems

2. Cybersecurity in autonomous systems

3. Cyber risk assessment

4. Attack Graphs

5. Information security governance

Supervised MSc Theses:

• "Design and Implementation of an Online Attack Graph Generator"
  Valerio Amodeo (co-supervised with Prof. Silvia Bonomi), MSc in Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome

• "LLM-enhanced Attack Graph Generation for Explainable Threat Modelling of Multi-Step Attacks"
  Francesco Scarati (co-supervised with Prof. Silvia Bonomi), MSc in Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome

• "Integrating CAPEC Attack Patterns into Privilege Escalation Assessment for Enhanced Threat Modelling"
  Giuseppe Cesare Zizzo (co-supervised with Prof. Simone Lenti), MSc in Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome

• "An NLP-assisted framework for (semi)-automatic correlation of CVE vulnerabilities and CAPEC patterns"
  Andrea Ciavotta (co-supervised with Prof. Silvia Bonomi and Prof. Simone Lenti), MSc in Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome

• "Enabling Human-Centric Visual Analysis and Exploration of Attack Surfaces through Progressive Attack Graphs"
  Claudio Cicimurri (co-supervised with Prof. Marco Angelini), MSc in Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome

• "PERSEO: A Process-centric Multiple-Perspective Assessment System for the Incident Management Process"
  Jonathan Christof Orth (co-supervised with Prof. Marco Angelini), MSc in Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome

• "Extending the STIX Communication Standard for Cyber Threat Intelligence Platforms"
  Philipp Eisermann (co-supervised with Prof. Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro), MSc in Informatics, Technical University of Munich

• "Design and Implementation of a Benchmark for Incident Management Process Assessment"
  Nicola Bartoloni (co-supervised with Prof. Marco Angelini), MSc in Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome

• "A Graph-Based Model for Security Awareness Analysis"
  Andrea Sorrentino (co-supervised with Prof. Silvia Bonomi), MSc in Cybersecurity, Sapienza University of Rome

Supervised BSc Theses:

• "Compaction and analysis of attack graphs"
  Sara Inzerillo (co-supervised with Prof. Silvia Bonomi), BSc in Ingegneria informatica e automatica, Sapienza University of Rome