"Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for."

 ~ Joseph Campbell 

JOURNALS:

• Sponziello N., Sateesan A., Rabbani Md M., Mentens N., Dragoni N., Dushku E. ITERATOR: Interruptible Remote Attestation through Cuckoo Filters. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (To appear).

• Ferens, M., Dushku, E., Kosta, S. When Random Is Bad: Selective CRPs for Protecting PUFs Against Modeling Attacks, in IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (IEEE TCAD), vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 1648-1661. 2025. 

• Dushku E., Rabbani M. M., Vliegen J., Braeken A., Dragoni N., and Mentens N. PROVE: Provable Remote attestation for public Verifiability. Journal of Information Security and Applications (Elsevier JISA). Volume 75, 2023, 103448, ISSN 2214-2126. 2023. 

• Dushku, E.; Østergaard, J.H.; Dragoni, N. Memory Offloading for Remote Attestation of Multi-Service IoT Devices. Sensors, vol. 22, no. 12, 2022 https://doi.org/10.3390/s22124340 

• Halldórsson R. M., Dushku E., and Dragoni N. ARCADIS: Asynchronous Remote Control-Flow Attestation of Distributed IoT Services. in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 144880-144894, 2021. 

• Ankergård S. F. J. J., Dushku E., and Dragoni N. State of the art software based remote attestation: Opportunities and open issues for internet of things. Sensors, vol. 21, no. 5, 2021.

• Dushku E., Rabbani M. M., Conti M., Mancini L. V.,  and Ranise S. SARA: Secure Asynchronous Remote Attestation for IoT systems. In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 15, pp. 3123-3136, 2020.

•  Kott A., Théron P., Mancini L.V., Dushku E., Panico A., Drašar M., LeBlanc B., Losiewicz P., Guarino A., Pihelgas M., and Rzadca K. An introductory preview of Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agent reference architecture, release 2.0. The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation. 2019.

• Kott A., Théron P., Drašar M., Dushku E., Günther H., Kont M., LeBlanc B., Losiewicz P., Guarino A., Mancini L.V., Panico A., Pihelgas M., and Rzadca K. Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-Defense Agent (AICA) Reference Architecture, Release 2.0. ICCDC Army Research Laboratory Adelphi United States. 2019.

CONFERENCES:

• Hellemans, W., El Kassem, N., Rabbani, M.M., Dushku, E., Chen, L., Braeken, A., Preneel, B., Mentens. N. SPARK: Secure Privacy-Preserving Anonymous Swarm Attestation for In-Vehicle Networks. In IEEE 10th European Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE EuroS&P), 2025. 

• Ferens, M., Dushku, E., Rommel S., Monroy T. I. and Kosta S. PU-QKD: Enhancing Authentication of Quantum Key Distribution via Physical Unclonable Function. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2025).

• Best Paper award. El Kassem, N.; Hellemans, W.; Siachos, I.; Dushku, E.; Vasileiadis, S.; Karas, D. S.; Chen, L.; Patsakis, C. and Giannetsos, T. (2025). PRIVÉ: Towards Privacy-Preserving Swarm Attestation.  In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), ISBN 978-989-758-760-3, ISSN 2184-7711, pages 247-262.

• Ferens, M., Dushku, E., Srinivasa, Sh., Kosta, S. Securing PUFs via a Predictive Adversarial ML System by Modeling of Attackers. In the 40th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC). 2024. 

• Ferens, M., Dushku, E., Kosta, S. On the Feasibility of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Modeling Delay-based PUFs. In the 20th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (IEEE WiMob). 2024. 

• Cotiga.M, Pedersen.J.M., Dushku. E., Cyber resilience in OT: Characteristics and Security Challenges. In: IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR) 2024, pp. 750-756. 

• Ferens, M., Dushku, E., Kosta, S. (2023). ML for Attack and Defense of PUFs: Current Status and Future Directions. In: Mehmood, R., et al. Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Special Sessions I, 20th International Conference. DCAI 2023. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 741. Springer, Cham. 

• Debes H.B., Dushku E., Giannetsos Th., and Marandi A. ZEKRA: Zero-Knowledge Control-Flow Attestation.  In the 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 357–371. 2023. 

• Ferens M., Dushku E., and Kosta S. Securing PUFs against ML Modeling Attacks via an Efficient Challenge-Response Approach.  In IEEE INFOCOM WKSHPS: MobiSec 2023: Security, Privacy, and Digital Forensics of Mobile Systems and Networks. 2023

• Ankergård S., Dushku E., and Dragoni N. PERMANENT: Publicly Verifiable Remote Attestation for Internet of Things through Blockchain.  In: Aïmeur, E., Laurent, M., Yaich, R., Dupont, B., Garcia-Alfaro, J. (eds) Foundations and Practice of Security. FPS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13291. Springer, Cham.  2022.

• Rabbani M. M., Dushku E., Vliegen J., Braeken A., Dragoni N., and Mentens N. RESERVE: Remote Attestation of Intermittent loT devices. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 578–580. 

• Østergaard J. H., Dushku E., and Dragoni N. ERAMO: Effective Remote Attestation through Memory Offloading. The IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR). 2021.

• Conti M., Dushku E., Mancini L. V., Rabbani M. M., Ranise S. Remote Attestation as a Service for IoT. In 6th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS 2019). 2019.

• Conti M., Dushku E., Mancini L.V. RADIS: Remote Attestation of Distributed IoT Services. In 6th IEEE Int Conf on Software Defined Systems (SDS-2019). 2019.

• Dushku E. POSTER: Towards Remote Attestation as a Service for IoT. In the 6th ACM Celebration of Women in Computing: womENcourage 2019.  2019.

ARTICLES IN BOOKS:

• Dushku, E., Dragoni, N. (2023). Secure Software Updates in IoT Devices. In: Jajodia, S., Samarati, P., Yung, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27739-9_1784-1

• Dushku, E., Dragoni, N. (2023). Swarm attestation. In: Jajodia, S., Samarati, P., Yung, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27739-9_1783-1

• Dushku, E., Dragoni, N. (2022). Remote Attestation in IoT Devices. In: Jajodia, S., Samarati, P., Yung, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27739-9_1782-1 

• Dushku E., Giannetsos T., Dragoni N. Direct Anonymous Attestation. In: S. Jajodia, P. Samarati, M. Yung (eds) Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
  DOI: https: //doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27739-9_1742-1.

• Conti M., Dushku E., Mancini L.V. Distributed Services Attestation in IoT. In From Database to Cyber Security. Springer, ISBN 978-3-030-04834-1, 261-273, 2018.

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