Carmine Cesarano

Office 1524, Level 5

E-Huset, Lindstedtsvägen 3

Stockholm

I am currently a Postdoctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Naples Federico II.

I work mostly on systems and software security. My research ranges from software testing and vulnerability discovery to security hardening such as debloating and secure configuration, as well as runtime enforcement mechanisms including sandboxing and system-call–level policy enforcement. I am also involved in securing and hardening software and AI supply CHAINS.

Contacts/Socials:

cesarano@kth.se
carmine.cesarano2@unina.it
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selected publications

Conference

KubeFence: Security Hardening of the Kubernetes Attack Surface

Carmine Cesarano, Roberto Natella, and others

In 2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2025

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{cesarano2025kubefence,
  title = {KubeFence: Security Hardening of the Kubernetes Attack Surface},
  author = {Cesarano, Carmine and Natella, Roberto and others},
  booktitle = {2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1109/DSN64029.2025.00054},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

Tech. Report

GoLeash: Mitigating Golang Software Supply Chain Attacks with Runtime Policy Enforcement

Carmine Cesarano, Martin Monperrus, and Roberto Natella

arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.11016, 2025

DOI Bib

@article{cesarano2025goleash,
  title = {GoLeash: Mitigating Golang Software Supply Chain Attacks with Runtime Policy Enforcement},
  author = {Cesarano, Carmine and Monperrus, Martin and Natella, Roberto},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.11016},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2505.11016},
  year = {2025},
}