I am Professor at the Design and Analysis of Communication Systems (DACS) group at the University of Twente.

My research interests are network monitoring, intrusion detection, network security, and network management.

For more info, visit my website at https://annasperotto.org/

Expertise

  • Computer Science

    • Attack
    • Domain Name System
    • Internet
    • Service
    • Domains
    • Denial of Service Attack
    • Detection
    • Management Infrastructure

Organisations

Ancillary activities

  • European Research Executive AgencyReviewer EU proposals

Publications

2025

Investigating Middlebox Deployment and Characteristics in Dutch Autonomous Systems (2025)In 2025 21st International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). IEEE (Accepted/In press). Ulukapi, B., Sperotto, A. & Holz, R.90th Minute: A First Look to Collateral Damages and Efficacy of the Italian Piracy Shield (2025)In 2025 21th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). IEEE (Accepted/In press). Sommese, R., Sperotto, A., Prado, A., van der Ham, J. & Affinito, A.Measuring The Impact of Post-Quantum Cryptography on Complex Applications: A Case Study on Federated Identity Management (2025)In 2025 9th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA). Fabrizio, G., Sperotto, A. & van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M.https://doi.org/10.23919/TMA66427.2025.11097002PQC for DNSSEC: a format size analysis on Falcon signatures (2025)In ANRW '25: Proceedings of the 2025 Applied Networking Research Workshop (pp. 143-149). Fabrizio, G., Koning, R., Lastdrager, E., Schutijser, C., Sperotto, A. & van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M.https://doi.org/10.1145/3744200.3744767Towards Understanding Middlebox Deployments in Dutch ASes: Impact of IP Sampling Size (2025)In ANRW '25: Proceedings of the 2025 Applied Networking Research Workshop (pp. 174-176). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Ulukapi, B., Sperotto, A. & Holz, R.https://doi.org/10.1145/3744200.3744765To Block Or Not To Block?: Evaluating Parental Controls Across Routers, DNS Services, and Software (2025)In Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference 2025 (TMA'2025). International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Liberato, M., Affinito, A., Meijerink, B., Jonker, M., Botta, A. & Sperotto, A.Web Crawl Refusals: Insights From Common Crawl (2025)In Passive and Active Measurement: 26th International Conference, PAM 2025, Virtual Event, March 10–12, 2025, Proceedings (pp. 197–214) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 15567). Springer. Ansar, M., Sperotto, A. & Holz, R.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-85960-1_9Tracing Vendors: A Middlebox-Centric Study of Network Interference (2025)In 2025 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) (pp. 176-186) (Proceedings - 10th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops, Euro S and PW 2025; Vol. 2025). IEEE. Ulukapi, B., Sperotto, A. & Holz, R.https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW67616.2025.00027

2024

A First Look at User-Installed Residential Proxies From a Network Operator's Perspective (2024)In 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM). Khan, E., Chiapponi, E., Verkleij, M., Sperotto, A., van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M. & van der Ham, J.https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM62983.2024.10814519Is a Name Enough? A First Look into Detecting Clouds Using DNS Pointer Records (2024)In 2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) (pp. 1-5). Article 10814277. IEEE Advancing Technology for Humanity. Tarahomi, S., Sommese, R., de Boer, P.-T., Linssen, J., Holz, R. & Sperotto, A.https://doi.org/10.23919/CNSM62983.2024.10814277

Research profiles

Courses academic year 2025/2026

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

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