Keynotes

Keynote 1: Valeria Loscri (INRIA Lille)

Title: Cybersecurity in wireless networks at the 6G Era

Abstract: The advent of sixth generation (6G) wireless networks promises transformative capabilities including ultra-high data rates, sub-millisecond latency, massive device connectivity, and AI-native infrastructure. These advancements, while enabling revolutionary applications such as immersive extended reality, holographic communication, and autonomous systems, also introduce unprecedented cybersecurity challenges. New paradigms such as IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum have been proposed to better meet the implementation of new functionalities. Overall, an increased heterogeneity of devices is at the core of the emerging wireless networks with the appearance of new threats and vulnerabilities together with an increased capacity of cyber-criminals to attack the networked systems at low level, namely the IoT devices. It is paramount to analyze this new security landscape and estimate the potential impact of attacks at IoT-devices on the upper layers, as well as advanced solutions to identify and isolate malicious devices. In this talk I will present some recent analysis on the vulnerability of emerging technologies as well as potential counteract approaches to better defend the next generation of communication systems.

Bio: Valeria Loscri (M'03, SM'17) (http://researchers.lille.inria.fr/~loscri/home.html) is research director at Inria Lille (France). She joined Inria since Oct. 2013. From Dec. 2006 to Sept. 2013, she was Research Fellow in the TITAN Lab of the University of Calabria, Italy. She received her MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science in 2003 and 2007, respectively, from the University of Calabria and her HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) in 2018 from Université de Lille (France). Her research interests focus on emerging technologies for new communication paradigms such as Visible Light Communication (VLC), mmWave, cyber security in wireless networks  and cooperation and coexistence of wireless heterogeneous devices. She is involved in the activity of several European Projects (Horizon Europe MLSysOps, H2020 CyberSANE, FP7 EU project VITAL, etc.) and Nationa Projects such as the project ASTRID DEPOSIA, ANR NEMIoT. 
She is in the editorial board of IEEE COMST IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Elsevier ComNet, ComCom. She is serving as TPC members in several primary international conferences, such as IEEE ESORICS, IEEE CNS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE PerCom.
She coordinated the research activities of several PhD students and postdoc.  In 2021 she has been mominated Women Stars in Computer Networking and Communications by the IEEE Communication Society. She has been shortlisted as Cyber Researcher by European Women Cyber Day - ECWD in 2024.  She is Action Chair and Scientific Holder of BEiNG-WISE COST Action (https://beingwise.eu/) (since 2023).  She has been European Partnership Scientific Delegate for Inria Lille since (Oct. 2016 – Sept. 2019).  She has been appointed as member of the Technological Transfer Committee at Inria Lille (Oct. 2016 – Spet. 2018). 
She was appointed as Evaluator Expert for Horizon European Projects, JU-SNS and JU-KDT (2023). 
In 2024 she has been appointed as chair of the expert panel for fundamental research W&T5 Computer Science & Information Technology FWO.  Since 2019, she is Scientific International Delegate for Inria Lille.

Keynote 2: Alain Tchana (IMAG, INPT Grenoble)

Title: Galaxie: An Efficient and Fault Tolerant Virtual Machine Observability Framework

Abstract: Virtual Machine Introspection is a set of techniques used to address the need of external analysis of virtual Machines. This can be needed for use cases as malware detection, memory forensics or even debug. However, existing introspection techniques can be invasive and need heavy modifications to the provider hypervisor (such as KVM); Moreover, they are not suitable for live VMs that run real world workloads as in-VM observability tools do. This is because of the latency induced by the introspection mechanisms and/or the implemented memory coherence mechanisms. The implemented Framework named Galaxie, allows the development of VM Satellite that perform Near Target Introspection. A Satellite is a guest that shares the same Virtual Machine Monitor (Eg. Firecracker) as its target. The VM colocation enables to configure a Satellite as a Side-VM with a live mapping of the target memory in the Satellite layout allowing native access to target memory. The complete set of observability mechanisms is contained in the VMM, thus in the userland and is not extended to the Provider domain that is the hypervisor. The Galaxie framework enables the cloud tenants to build side-VMs (Satellites) for their main VMs and workloads and the cloud providers to perform infrastructure management operations such as memory overcommitment securely and without breaking the cloud tenant VM's privacy.

Bio: Alain Tchana is from Nkongsamba, a city in Cameroon. He is gratuated from University of Yaoundé I in 2008. Then he received his PhD in computer science in 2011 at Toulouse INP. Since September 2022 he is Professor at Grenoble INP in France, head of the Inria KrakOS team. Before Grenoble, Alain Tchana was Assistant Professor at Toulouse INP (2013-2018), Professor at Nice University (2018-2019), and Professor at ENS Lyon (2019-2022). His main research interests are Virtualization and Operating Systems. Simply, Alain Tchana is a Systems guy! He has published more than 70 research papers in Systems, Middleware, Network, and Security conferences including EuroSys, USENIX ATC, INFOCOM, VEE, Middleware, RAID, AsiaCCS and DSN. He has also served as PC member in several conferences including USENIX ATC, EuroSys, NSDI, Sigmetrics, etc. Alain Tchana has co-supervised several PhD students, seven of whom are pursuing their career in academia. He has received two major prizes: the 2021 CNRS GDR RSD best junior researcher awards in France, and the 2021 Prix de la Francophonie pour Jeunes chercheurs.