Accepted paper at ESORICS '25

After several attempts and reworks, Sara’s latest paper has been finally accepted at ESORICS, a premier cybersecurity conference, which will take place this year in Toulouse, from September 22nd to 24th.

Sara’s work, entitled PROTEAN: Federated Intrusion Detection in Non-IID Environments through Prototype-Based Knowledge Sharing, will be presented at what will the 30th installment of the European Symposium on Research in Computer Security.

The paper is the result of a collaboration between our team and two researchers, namely Yufei Han from Inria Rennes, and Emiliano De Cristofaro from UC Riverside. It deals with enabling collaborative intrusion detection among a network of entities each training its own intrusion detection model. Each entity may actually be exposed to a subset of attacks, with little to no knowledge for certain attack classes. Using Federated Prototype Learning (FPL), we are able to induce knowledge sharing among the participants, without incurring training data disclosure, which may well be intellectual property or sensitive information.

Presentation details will be communicated later.