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dr. A. Sperotto (Anna)

Associate Professor

About Me

I am an Associate 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 http://annasperotto.org/

Expertise

Engineering & Materials Science
# Botnet
# Denial-Of-Service Attack
# Internet
# Intrusion Detection
# Monitoring
Business & Economics
# Attack
# Intrusion Detection System
# World Wide Web

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Publications

Recent
Yazdani, R., Nosyk, Y. , Holz, R., Korczyński, M. , Jonker, M. , & Sperotto, A. (2023). Hazardous Echoes: The DNS Resolvers that Should Be Put on Mute. In 2023 7th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) (pp. 1-10). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.23919/TMA58422.2023.10198955
Sommese, R. (2023). Everything in Its Right Place: Improving DNS resilience. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036556699
Khan, E. , Sperotto, A. , Ham, J. V. D. , & Rijswijk-Deij, R. V. (2023). Stranger VPNs: Investigating the Geo-Unblocking Capabilities of Commercial VPN Providers. In A. Brunstrom, M. Flores, & M. Fiore (Eds.), Passive and Active Measurement: 24th International Conference, PAM 2023, Virtual Event, March 21–23, 2023, Proceedings (pp. 46-68) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28486-1_3
Sommese, R., Claffy, K. , van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M., Chattopadhyay, A., Dainotti, A. , Sperotto, A. , & Jonker, M. (2022). Investigating the impact of DDoS attacks on DNS infrastructure. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (pp. 51-64). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561458
van der Toorn, O. , van Rijswijk - Deij, R., Sommese, R. , Sperotto, A. , & Jonker, M. (2022). Saving Brian's privacy: The perils of privacy exposure through reverse DNS. In IMC '22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (pp. 1-13). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561424
Yazdani, R., Hilton, A. , van der Ham, J. , van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M., Deccio, C. , Sperotto, A. , & Jonker, M. (2022). Mirrors in the Sky: On the Potential of Clouds in DNS Reflection-based Denial-of-Service Attacks. In Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (pp. 263-275). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3545948.3545959
van der Toorn, O. I. (2022). Proactive threat detection: A DNS based approach. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036554428
van der Toorn, O. , Müller, M., Dickinson, S. , Hesselman, C. , Sperotto, A. , & van Rijswijk - Deij, R. (2022). Addressing the challenges of modern DNS: a comprehensive tutorial. Computer science review, 45, Article 100469. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosrev.2022.100469
Yazdani, R. , Rijswijk-Deij, R. V. , Jonker, M. , & Sperotto, A. (2022). A matter of degree: characterizing the amplification power of open DNS resolvers. In O. Hohlfeld, G. Moura, & C. Pelsser (Eds.), Passive and Active Network Measurement: 23rd International Conference, PAM 2022, Virtual Event, March 28–30, 2022, Proceedings (pp. 293-318). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98785-5_13
Sommese, R., Akiwate, G. , Jonker, M., Moura, G., Davids, M. , van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M., Voelker, G. M., Savage, S., Claffy, K. , & Sperotto, A. (2021). Characterization of Anycast Adoption in the DNS Authoritative Infrastructure. In TMA Conference 2021: Proceedings of the 5th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference, Virtual, September 14-15, 2021 IFIP. https://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/tma/tma2021/tma2021-paper1.pdf

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Courses Academic Year  2023/2024

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Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

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University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Zilverling (building no. 11), room 5098
Hallenweg 19
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Zilverling  5098
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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