Biography

Simone Magnani is a PhD student jointly at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Povo, Italy) and University of Genova (Genova, Italy). Currently, he focuses on AI/ML-based detection system and their correlation with network traffic monitoring features. Prior to this, Simone was focussed mainly on traffic monitoring, leveraging technologies such as eBPF and contributing to open source projects. Moreover, he has been member of two cybersecurity italian teams, CeSeNA and pwnthem0le.

Simone is currently open for hiring. His ideal position would be as an Open Source Software Engineer mainly focusing on projects related to network traffic monitoring, service observability and virtualization. He is confident that his positive ‘can-do’ attitude, combined with his technical expertise, would be valuable contributions to the role.

Interests

  • Network Traffic Monitoring
  • Observability and Containarization
  • AI/ML-based Cyber Attack Detection
  • Adaptive Systems

Education

  • PhD in Cybersecurity and Reliable Artificial Intelligence, 2020-current

    Fondazione Bruno Kessler - University of Genova

  • MSc in Computer Engineering (110/110 cum laude), 2018-2020

    Polytechnic of Turin

  • BSc in Computer Science and Engineering (110/110), 2015-2018

    Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna

Skills

Data and Control Plane

Design and Programming (eBPF)

Machine Learning

AI/ML/DL Methodologies

Cloud Native

Containerisation and Virtualisation

Problem Solving

See, Think, Do

Linux

Since 2015

Communication

Clear and technical

Talks

Pruning Federated Learning Models for Anomaly Detection in Resource-Constrained Environments

Paper presentation at the 2023 IEEE Internation conference on Big Data
Dec 17, 2023 10:00 AM
Simone Magnani, Stefano Braghin, Ambrish Rawat, Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin, Mark Purcell, Domenico Siracusa
Slides Video
Pruning Federated Learning Models for Anomaly Detection in Resource-Constrained Environments

Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection: An Online Metodology for Performance Evaluation

Paper presentation at the 2023 IEEE Internation Conference on Network Softwarization
Jul 16, 2023 10:00 AM
Simone Magnani, Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin, Domenico Siracusa
Slides
Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection: An Online Metodology for Performance Evaluation

Towards Application-Aware Provisioning of Security Services with Kubernetes

Demo Paper presentation at the 2022 IEEE Internation Conference on Network Softwarization
Jun 28, 2022 10:00 AM
Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin, Silvio Cretti, Tiziana Catena, Simone Magnani, Domenico Siracusa
Slides Video
Towards Application-Aware Provisioning of Security Services with Kubernetes

Publications

Pruning Federated Learning Models for Anomaly Detection in Resource-Constrained Environments

The evolving complexity of modern IT infrastructures has paved the way for malicious actors to exploit a wide array of vulnerabilities …
Simone Magnani, Stefano Braghin, Ambrish Rawat, Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin, Mark Purcell, Domenico Siracusa
PDF
Pruning Federated Learning Models for Anomaly Detection in Resource-Constrained Environments

Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection: An Online Metodology for Performance Evaluation

Machine learning models have been extensively proposed for classifying network flows as benign or malicious, either in-network or at …
Simone Magnani, Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin, Domenico Siracusa
PDF
Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection: An Online Metodology for Performance Evaluation

A Control Plane Enabling Automated and Fully Adaptive Network Traffic Monitoring With eBPF

The extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) enables the dynamic injection of user-defined processing logic at run-time in the Linux …
Simone Magnani, Fulvio Risso, Domenico Siracusa
PDF
A Control Plane Enabling Automated and Fully Adaptive Network Traffic Monitoring With eBPF

Towards Application-Aware Provisioning of Security Services with Kubernetes

In network security, Network Function Virtualization can be exploited to implement flexible security services tailored to specific user …
Roberto Doriguzzi, Silvio Cretti, Tiziana Catena, Simone Magnani, Domenico Siracusa
PDF
Towards Application-Aware Provisioning of Security Services with Kubernetes

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Fellow Researcher (Internship)

IBM Research Europe

Jun 2023 – Aug 2023 Dublin (Ireland)
Collaborated during my PhD on Federated Learning algorithms and aggregation schemes in case of heterogeneous devices and models in the context of cyber attacks detections.
 
 
 
 
 

Fellow Researcher

Polytechnic of Turin

Jul 2020 – Aug 2020 Turin (IT)
Worked for prof. Fulvio Risso in Toshi, a european project. I mainly worked with eBPF, achieving an optimized in-kernel packet analysis for cyber attacks detection.
 
 
 
 
 

Software Developer (Internship)

Yoroi S.r.l.

Nov 2017 – Dec 2017 Cesena (IT)

Created an information gatherer system aiming at:

  • Analysing and parsing security logs
  • Gathering potential malicious IPs info
  • Deploying a command line interface tool

Certificates

Routing Protocols in SONiC (R2O-SON-BRC-SA-R1-M5-E1)

route2open May 2023
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Introducing the CLI interface and Interface Configuration (R20-SON-BRC-SA-R1-M3-E1)

route2open Apr 2023
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Redundancy Methods (R20-SON-BRC-SA-R1-M4-E1)

route2open Apr 2023
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Unboxing Open Networking (R2O-UON)

route2open Apr 2023
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SONiC Introduction (R2O-SON-BRC-SA-R1-M1-E1)

route2open Apr 2023
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Initial SONiC Setup (R2O-SON-BRC-SA-R1-M2-E1)

route2open Apr 2023
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Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization

Coursera Nov 2021
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Writing in the Sciences

Coursera Sep 2021
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Inclusive Leadership: The Power of Workplace Diversity

Coursera May 2021
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Coursera Mar 2021
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IELTS (C1)

British Council Jul 2018
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Projects

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All Cloud Computing Security eBPF/XDP Linux Kernel

DeChainy

An open source framework to easily build and deploy eBPF/XDP network monitoring probes in order to perform Service Programs Chain efficiently.
Code Slides
DeChainy

BCC

BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs, and includes several useful tools and examples.
Code
BCC

Polycube

An open source software framework that provides fast and lightweight network functions such as bridges, routers, firewalls, and others.
PDF Code
Polycube

Spider

A Cybersecurity platform for virtualised 5G Cyber Range Services.
Spider

Toshi

Framework aiming at extracting and detecting threats like DDoS and Crypto mining attacks.
Code Video
Toshi

IDCAS

An open source framework to detect system exploitation and replay the received attack to others.
Code Video
IDCAS

IPCAS

An open source framework to detect and prevent system exploitation and replay the received attack to others.
Code Video
IPCAS

Cooperative Editor

A cooperative editor (Google Docs) written in C++ to edit and share document with your friends
Simone Magnani, Riccardo Marchi, Francesco Pavan
Code
Cooperative Editor

CrownLabs

A set of services that can deliver remote computing labs through a per-user virtual machine.
PDF Code Video
CrownLabs

Kubernetes on Desktop

Edge computing and service remotization
Code Slides
Kubernetes on Desktop

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