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 http://annasperotto.org/

Expertise

  • Computer Science

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

Organisations

Ancillary activities

  • European UnionEU expert group

Publications

2024

Victimization in DDoS Attacks: The Role of Popularity and Industry Sector (2024)Computers & Security (Submitted). Haq, M. Y. M., Affinito, A., Botta, A., Sperotto, A., Nieuwenhuis, L. J. M., Jonker, M. & Abhishta, A.Swamp of Reflectors: Investigating the Ecosystem of Open DNS Resolvers (2024)In Passive and Active Measurement - 25th International Conference, PAM 2024, Proceedings (pp. 3-18) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 14538 LNCS). Springer. Yazdani, R., Jonker, M. & Sperotto, A.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56252-5_1

2023

Quantifying Security Risks in Cloud Infrastructures: A Data-driven Approach (2023)In 2023 IEEE 9th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft). IEEE. Tarahomi, S., Holz, R. & Sperotto, A.https://doi.org/10.1109/NetSoft57336.2023.10175501Hazardous Echoes: The DNS Resolvers that Should Be Put on Mute (2023)In 2023 7th Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA) (pp. 1-10). IEEE. Yazdani, R., Nosyk, Y., Holz, R., Korczyński, M., Jonker, M. & Sperotto, A.https://doi.org/10.23919/TMA58422.2023.10198955Everything in Its Right Place: Improving DNS resilience (2023)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Sommese, R.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036556699Stranger VPNs: Investigating the Geo-Unblocking Capabilities of Commercial VPN Providers (2023)In Passive and Active Measurement: 24th International Conference, PAM 2023, Virtual Event, March 21–23, 2023, Proceedings (pp. 46-68). Khan, E., Sperotto, A., Ham, J. v. d. & Rijswijk-Deij, R. v.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28486-1_3

2022

Mirrors in the Sky: On the Potential of Clouds in DNS Reflection-based Denial-of-Service Attacks (2022)In Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (pp. 263-275). Association for Computing Machinery. Yazdani, R., Hilton, A., van der Ham, J., van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M., Deccio, C., Sperotto, A. & Jonker, M.https://doi.org/10.1145/3545948.3545959Investigating the impact of DDoS attacks on DNS infrastructure (2022)In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (pp. 51-64). Association for Computing Machinery. Sommese, R., Claffy, K., van Rijswijk - Deij, R. M., Chattopadhyay, A., Dainotti, A., Sperotto, A. & Jonker, M.https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561458Saving Brian's privacy: The perils of privacy exposure through reverse DNS (2022)In IMC '22: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (pp. 1-13). Association for Computing Machinery. van der Toorn, O., van Rijswijk - Deij, R., Sommese, R., Sperotto, A. & Jonker, M.https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561424Proactive threat detection: A DNS based approach (2022)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. van der Toorn, O. I.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036554428

Research profiles

Courses academic year 2024/2025

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Courses academic year 2023/2024

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