publications

2025

1. Journal

   GENIO: Synergizing Edge Computing with Optical Network Infrastructures

   Carmine Cesarano, Alessio Foggia, Gianluca Roscigno, and 2 more authors

   IEEE Communications Magazine, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @article{cesarano2025genio,
     title = {GENIO: Synergizing Edge Computing with Optical Network Infrastructures},
     author = {Cesarano, Carmine and Foggia, Alessio and Roscigno, Gianluca and Andreani, Luca and Natella, Roberto},
     journal = {IEEE Communications Magazine},
     year = {2025},
     doi = {10.1109/MCOM.002.2400382},
     publisher = {IEEE}
   }

2. 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},
   }

3. Conference

   Security-by-Design at the Telco Edge with OSS: Challenges and Lessons Learned

   Carmine Cesarano, Alessio Foggia, Gianluca Roscigno, and 3 more authors

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

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{cesarano2025security,
     title = {Security-by-Design at the Telco Edge with OSS: Challenges and Lessons Learned},
     author = {Cesarano, Carmine and Foggia, Alessio and Roscigno, Gianluca and Andreani, Luca and Natella, Roberto and others},
     booktitle = {2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks-Supplemental Volume (DSN-S)},
     doi = {10.1109/DSN-S65789.2025.00041},
     year = {2025}
   }

4. 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},
   }

5. Journal

   FuzzBox: Blending Fuzzing into Emulation for Binary-Only Embedded Targets

   Carmine Cesarano and Roberto Natella

   accepted at Cybersecurity Journal, arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.05643, 2025

   DOI Bib

   @article{cesarano2025fuzzbox,
     title = {FuzzBox: Blending Fuzzing into Emulation for Binary-Only Embedded Targets},
     author = {Cesarano, Carmine and Natella, Roberto},
     journal = {accepted at Cybersecurity Journal, arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.05643},
     doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2509.05643},
     year = {2025}
   }

2024

1. Conference

   Securing an Application Layer Gateway: An Industrial Case Study

   Carmine Cesarano and Roberto Natella

   In 2024 19th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC), 2024

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{cesarano2024securing,
     title = {Securing an Application Layer Gateway: An Industrial Case Study},
     author = {Cesarano, Carmine and Natella, Roberto},
     booktitle = {2024 19th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC)},
     pages = {75--80},
     year = {2024},
     doi = {10.1109/EDCC61798.2024.00025},
     organization = {IEEE}
   }

2023

1. Conference

   IRIS: a Record and Replay Framework to Enable Hardware-assisted Virtualization Fuzzing

   Carmine Cesarano, Marcello Cinque, Domenico Cotroneo, and 2 more authors

   In 2023 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2023

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{cesarano2023iris,
     title = {IRIS: a Record and Replay Framework to Enable Hardware-assisted Virtualization Fuzzing},
     author = {Cesarano, Carmine and Cinque, Marcello and Cotroneo, Domenico and De Simone, Luigi and Farina, Giorgio},
     booktitle = {2023 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN)},
     pages = {389--401},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.1109/DSN58367.2023.00045},
     organization = {IEEE}
   }

2. Conference

   Security Assessment and Hardening of Fog Computing Systems

   Carmine Cesarano

   In 2023 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW), 2023

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{cesarano2023security,
     title = {Security Assessment and Hardening of Fog Computing Systems},
     author = {Cesarano, Carmine},
     booktitle = {2023 IEEE 34th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW)},
     pages = {22--25},
     year = {2023},
     doi = {10.1109/ISSREW60843.2023.00037},
     organization = {IEEE}
   }

3. Conference

   GoSurf: Identifying Software Supply Chain Attack Vectors in Go

   Carmine Cesarano, Vivi Andersson, Roberto Natella, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Software Supply Chain Offensive Research and Ecosystem Defenses, 2023

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{cesarano2023gosurf,
     title = {GoSurf: Identifying Software Supply Chain Attack Vectors in Go},
     author = {Cesarano, Carmine and Andersson, Vivi and Natella, Roberto and Monperrus, Martin},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Software Supply Chain Offensive Research and Ecosystem Defenses},
     pages = {33--42},
     doi = {10.1145/3689944.369616},
     year = {2023}
   }

2022

1. Conference

   Towards assessing isolation properties in partitioning hypervisors

   Carmine Cesarano, Domenico Cotroneo, and Luigi De Simone

   In 2022 IEEE international symposium on software reliability engineering workshops (ISSREW), 2022

   DOI Bib

   @inproceedings{cesarano2022towards,
     title = {Towards assessing isolation properties in partitioning hypervisors},
     author = {Cesarano, Carmine and Cotroneo, Domenico and De Simone, Luigi},
     booktitle = {2022 IEEE international symposium on software reliability engineering workshops (ISSREW)},
     pages = {193--200},
     year = {2022},
     organization = {IEEE},
     doi = {10.1109/ISSREW55968.2022.00067}
   }