Research thematics
The LRE “Security and Systems” group aims at securing IT systems in three areas:
- the identification of vulnerabilities
- the protection of software, operating systems and networks
- attack detection using Machine Learning and Graph Learning
It focuses on two major scientific issues:
- What are the best practices for creating robust and sustainable systems?
- What artificial intelligence tools (graphs, machine learning) are used to detect malicious actors and software?
The group team is interested in attacks targeting both the heart of systems (processors, kernels, operating systems) and those targeting industrial, embedded and distributed systems (5G, SCADA, blockchain).
Applications
The application domains cover:
- Operating Systems
- Malware analysis
- Internet of Things and 5G networks
- Blockchain
Collaborations
The members of the team are part of:
- UNITWin UNESCO Complex Systems Digital Campus
- ICube Laboratory at University of Strasbourg
We tightly collaborate with:
- College of Communication and Information University of Kentucky, Sherali Zeadally
- Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l’Information (LTCI), Télécom Paris, Rida Khatoun
- CEA, Jamel Nebhen
- INRAE Bordeaux, Olivier Piller
- CNAM CEDRIC Laboratory, Véronique Legrand
- Network Systems, Cyber Security and Digital Law department at IMT Atlantique, Marc-Oliver Pahl
- SID research team of ERIC laboratory, Mohamed-Lamine MESSAI
- SAFE research team of GREYC laboratory, Matthieu Dien
As well as with :
Projects and Contributions
Ongoing projects are:
- RAPID Project Damiage ‘Détection d’attaques et de Menaces pour des Infrastructures à Grande Echelle’, founded by French DGA - 2019-2023 (avec une pause Covid)
- XDGMed - Explainable attack Detection using Graphs for Medical devices, co-founded by Région Grand-Est and EPITA - 2022-2025
Earlier development projects by the team experts can be found here
Organisation
Group leader: Pr. Pierre Parrend (HDR)
Associate Professors:
- Elloh Adja
- David Beserra
- Marc Espie
- Ghada Gharbi
- Badis Hammi
- Nidà Meddouri
Phd students:
- Abou Rida Amani
- Julien Michel
- Majed Jaber
Students
Promotion 2023 : Alexandre Fresnais, Martin Grenouilloux, Antoine Jouan, Alex Levigoureux, Pierre-Emmanuel Patry
Promotion 2024 : Younes Benreguieg
Promotion 2025 : Colléaux-Le Chêne Aloïs, Diaz Jules, Engler Darius, Kautz Mathias, Le Bail Giovanni, Lefeuvre Tudual, Meshcheriakov Vladimir, Mohamed Ben Ali Sabir, Neyrand Charles , Quesnel Kristen, Rabet Nathan, Reyland Nicolas, Wantiez Guillaume
You will find former members of LSE Lab here
Events
Invited Talks
- 30/08/2022, Pierre Parrend, Trusted Graphs: using graph-based learning for trusted Artificial Intelligence, Future IoT Summer School, Berlin
- 20/09/2022, Marc Espie, Architectures vs the ports tree: a losing battle?, EuroBSDCon, Vienne, Autriche
- 08/12/2022, Pierre Parrend, IT Security in Research, BioTechDays 2022, ESBS, Illkirch
- 12/12/2022, Badis Hammi, Is it That easy to detect sybil attacks?, Workshop on Cybersecurity for Connected and Autonomous Cars, Télécom Paris, Palaison
Team Seminars
Previous and upcoming seminars can be found on the dedicated Seminars page.
You will find former events at LSE laboratory here
Teaching
The team members are involved in teaching on:
- Operating System
- Secure Development
- Networks
- Pentesting
- Attack techniques
- Machine Learning and Security
- Trusted AI
- Kernel: the K project
- Projets de Fin d’Apprentissage, Majeure CS
They intervene in:
- The EPITA Computer Science Engineer diploma
- EPITA International Masters
- EPITA Bachelor for Cybersecurity
- EPITA Bachelor for Computer Science
You will find older lectures, including recruitment assigments, here
Locations
Teams members and students are active in all campuses of EPITA:
- Campus Cyber
- Kremlin-Bicêtre
- Lyon
- Rennes
- Strasbourg
- Toulouse
Former Laboratory: LSE - Laboratoire Systèmes de l’EPITA
- All resources before 8/2022 are still available on the LSE page
- The Code project repository is always there