About Me

PhD student in Computer Science

I am a PhD student at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security and Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science. I am advised by Dr. Nils Ole Tippenhauer, working in Scy-Phy group.
I am intrested in Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Adversarial Machine Learning. In particular Adversarial Examples against Anomaly Detectors for Industrial Control Systems.
I hold Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science Engineering from Politecnico di Milano. During my master's, I spent seven months as a visiting student at the iTrust lab at Singapore University of Technology and Design.
I am currently visiting student at the Cyber-Physical Security Lab (CPSec) with Prof. Saman Zonouz at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Publications

In proceeding of Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2022

"Assessing Model-free Anomaly Detection in Industrial Control Systems Against Generic Concealment Attacks"

Alessandro Erba, Nils Ole Tippenhauer

Distinguished Paper with Artifacts Award

In proceeding of CPS & IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIoTSec2022)

"Security Analysis of Vendor Implementations of the OPC UA Protocol for Industrial Control Systems"

Alessandro Erba, Anne Müller, Nils Ole Tippenhauer

Best Paper Award

In proceeding of Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2020

"Constrained Concealment Attacks against Reconstruction-based Anomaly Detectors in Industrial Control Systems"

Alessandro Erba, Riccardo Taormina, Stefano Galelli, Marcello Pogliani, Michele Carminati, Stefano Zanero, Nils Ole Tippenhauer

In proceeding of The Joint Workshop on CPS & IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIoTSec2020)

"A Statistical Analysis Framework for ICS Process Datasets"

Federico Turrin, Alessandro Erba, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Mauro Conti

Talks

BlackHat Europe 2021

"Resting on Feet of Clay: Securely Bootstrapping OPC UA Deployments"

Alessandro Erba, Anne Müller, Nils Ole Tippenhauer