RESEARCHER PROFILE NETHERLANDS

Francesco
Prisco

PhD Candidate
University of Twente / DACS

Cybersecurity at the infrastructure layer, using Internet measurement to study routing security and resilience.

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01 / ABOUT

A focus on the
Internet beneath us.

The Internet depends on infrastructure most people never see: interdomain routing, measurement systems, and the trust mechanisms behind HTTPS.

I am a PhD candidate in the Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS) group at the University of Twente. My research interests center on Internet security and resilience, particularly routing security and Internet measurement.

My MSc research used Internet-scale measurements to study domain validation reuse in the Web PKI and led to an accepted paper at WTMC 2026. I hold an MSc in Computer Engineering and a BSc in Automation Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy.

02 / RESEARCHFOCUS AREAS

Where networks meet
adversarial conditions.

My work and interests span Internet measurement, routing security, network resilience, and the Web PKI.

01
Research area

Routing security

Interested in how routing affects the security of Internet infrastructure.

Internet routingCybersecurity
02
Research area

Internet measurement

Using measurements to understand the behavior and reliability of Internet infrastructure.

MeasurementInfrastructure
03
Research area

Network resilience

Interested in the availability of networks and distributed Internet services.

Distributed networksReliability
04
MSc research

Web PKI security

Studied certificate issuance and domain validation practices in the Web PKI.

TLS / HTTPSCertificate Transparency
03 / PUBLICATIONS

Selected
research.

  1. 2026

    Trust, but Verify: When CAs Reuse Domain Validation at Scale

    Accepted

    Francesco Prisco, Simon Pietro Romano, Antonia Affinito, Raffaele Sommese

    11th International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity (WTMC), co-located with ACM CCS

04 / EDUCATION

A foundation in
engineering.

MSc in Computer Engineering

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

2024–2026

BSc in Automation Engineering

University of Naples Federico II, Italy

05 / PROJECTS

Selected projects.

Network security2025

SDN Defender

An SDN-based lab system for adaptive DoS and DDoS detection and mitigation using Ryu, OpenFlow, and Mininet.

View code ↗
Detection engineering2026

Mini SOC Lab

A virtualized cyber kill chain lab combining attack simulation with Wazuh-based detection and MITRE ATT&CK mapping.

View code ↗
AI security2026

Virtual Hacker

A local LLM-based pipeline for defensive threat modeling of AI chatbots, organizing risks and mitigations with OWASP and STRIDE.

View code ↗
06 / CONTACT

Let's connect
across networks.

Interested in cybersecurity, Internet routing security, resilience, or potential research collaborations? Connect with me through the profiles listed here.