Publications

📚 Books

• Tracing Techniques for Connected Medical Devices
  Vaios Bolgouras, Georgios Petychakis, Aristeidis Farao, Apostolis Zarras, Christos Xenakis
  Holistic IoT Security, Privacy and Safety: Integrated Approaches Protecting A Highly Connected World, May 7, 2025.
• Cybersecurity Challenges and Pitfalls in 6G Networks
  Aristeidis Farao, Vaios Bolgouras, Apostolis Zarras, Christos Xenakis
  Holistic IoT Security, Privacy and Safety: Integrated Approaches Protecting A Highly Connected World, Now Publishers, May 7, 2025.
• Securing the Software Supply Chain: Innovations and Approaches
  Apostolis Zarras, Evangelos Haleplidis, Christos Xenakis, Apostolos Fournaris
  Holistic IoT Security, Privacy and Safety: Integrated Approaches Protecting A Highly Connected World, Now Publishers, May 7, 2025.
• An Architecture for Dynamic Trust Management in IoT Security
  Stef Verreydt, Dimitri Van Landuyt, Michail Bampatsikos, Rustem Dautov, Hui Song, Shukun Hui, Tom Van Eyck, Sam Michiels, Apostolis Zarras, Thodoris Ioannidis, Christos Xenakis, Danny Hughes, Wouter Joosen, Konstantinos Loupos
  Now Publishers, pp. 45-81, May 7, 2025.
• Cyber-insurance: Past, present and future
  Sakshyam Panda, Aristeidis Farao, Emmanouil Panaousis, Christos Xenakis
  Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy, pp. 529-532, Springer Nature Switzerland, January 8, 2025.

📝 Journals

• CRASHED: Cyber risk assessment for smart home electronic devices
  Georgios Paparis, Apostolis Zarras, Aristeidis Farao, Christos Xenakis
  Journal of Information Security and Applications, Vol. 91, p. 104054, Elsevier, June 2025.
• EAP-FIDO: A novel EAP method for using FIDO2 credentials for network authentication
  Martiño Rivera-Dourado, Christos Xenakis, Alejandro Pazos, Jose Vázquez-Naya
  Computer Networks, p. 111348, Elsevier, May 10, 2025.
• A comprehensive survey of Federated Intrusion Detection Systems: techniques, challenges and solutions
  Ioannis Makris, Aikaterini Karampasi, Panagiotis Radoglou-Grammatikis, Nikolaos Episkopos, Eider Iturbe, Erkuden Rios, Nikos Piperigkos, Aris Lalos, Christos Xenakis, Thomas Lagkas, Vasileios Argyriou, Panagiotis Sarigiannidis
  Computer Science Review, Vol. 56, p. 100717, Elsevier, May 1, 2025.
• Trust Score Prediction and Management in IoT Ecosystems Using Markov Chains and MADM Techniques
  Michail Bampatsikos, Ilias Politis, Thodoris Ioannidis, Christos Xenakis
  IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, IEEE, January 17, 2025.

🎤 Conferences

No conference publications for 2025.

📚 Books

• Information and Communications Security
  Sokratis Katsikas, Christos Xenakis, Christos Kalloniatis, Costas Lambrinoudakis,
  Springer Nature, 2024.

📝 Journals

• Game on: a performance comparison of interpolation techniques applied to Shamir’s secret sharing
  Anastassis Voudouris, Aristomenis Tressos, Apostolis Zarras, Christos Xenakis,
  The Computer Journal, p. bxae109, Oxford University Press, November 14, 2024.
• RETINA: Distributed and secure trust management for smart grid applications and energy trading
  Vaios Bolgouras, Thodoris Ioannidis, Ilias Politis, Apostolis Zarras, Christos Xenakis,
  Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, Vol. 38, p. 101274, Elsevier, June 1, 2024.
• How many FIDO protocols are needed? Analysing the technology, security and compliance
  Anna Angelogianni, Ilias Politis, Christos Xenakis,
  ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 56, Issue 8, pp. 1-51, ACM, April 26, 2024.
• INCHAIN: a cyber insurance architecture with smart contracts and self-sovereign identity on top of blockchain
  Aristeidis Farao, Georgios Paparis, Sakshyam Panda, Emmanouil Panaousis, Apostolis Zarras, Christos Xenakis,
  International Journal of Information Security, Vol. 23, Issue 1, pp. 347-371, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, February 2024.

🎤 Conferences

• Deception Mechanisms for Cyber-Security Enhancement in the Internet of Things
  Ignacio Lacalle, Salvador Cuñat, Aristeidis Farao, Christos Xenakis, Dionysis Xenakis, Carlos E Palau,
  2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), pp. 1-7, IEEE, October 21, 2024.
• Roadmap to Secure 6G Networks
  Vaios Bolgouras, Aristeidis Farao, Christos Xenakis,
  2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), pp. 1-6, IEEE, October 21, 2024.
• AIAS: AI-ASsisted cybersecurity platform to defend against adversarial AI attacks
  Georgios Petihakis, Aristeidis Farao, Panagiotis Bountakas, Athanasia Sabazioti, John Polley, Christos Xenakis,
  Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-7, July 30, 2024.
• NITRO: an Interconnected 5G-IoT Cyber Range
  Aristeidis Farao, Christoforos Ntantogian, Stylianos Karagiannis, Emmanouil Magkos, Alexandra Dritsa, Christos Xenakis,
  Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-6, July 30, 2024.
• Integrating Hyperledger Fabric with Satellite Communications: A Revolutionary Approach for Enhanced Security and Decentralization in Space Networks
  Anastassios Voudouris, Aristeidis Farao, Aggeliki Panou, John Polley, Christos Xenakis,
  Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-8, July 30, 2024.
• Leveraging Self-sovereign Identity for e-Health Applications
  Aristeidis Farao, Georgios Paparis, Michail-Alexandros Kourtis, Margarita Anastassova, Christian Bolzmacher, Stéphane Bouilland, Evangelos Markakis, Ioannis Koufos, Ilias Politis, Christos Xenakis, George Xilouris,
  International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 340-349, Springer Nature Switzerland, June 25, 2024.
• Lifecycle management of IoT devices via digital identities management and distributed ledgers solutions
  Konstantinos Loupos, Harris Niavis, Konstantinos Dafloukas, Sokratis Vavilis, Fotis Michalopoulos, Antonio Skarmeta, Jesús García,
  Proceedings of the Embedded World Conference, April 11, 2024.

2023

📚 Books

No book publications for 2023.

📝 Journals

• Multi-attribute decision making-based trust score calculation in trust management in IoT
  Michail Bampatsikos, Ilias Politis, Vaios Bolgouras, Christos Xenakis
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-8, August 29, 2023.
• Adversarial machine learning attacks on multiclass classification of IoT network traffic
  Vasileios Pantelakis, Panagiotis Bountakas, Aristeidis Farao, Christos Xenakis
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-8, August 29, 2023.
• Enabling Qualified Anonymity for Enhanced User Privacy in the Digital Era
  Vaios Bolgouras, Konstantinos Papadamou, Ioana Stroinea, Michail Papadakis, George Gugulea, Michael Sirivianos, Christos Xenakis
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-8, August 29, 2023.
• Securing the Flow: Security and Privacy Tools for Flow-based Programming
  Thodoris Ioannidis, Vaios Bolgouras, Christos Xenakis, Ilias Politis
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-6, August 29, 2023.
• A Bring Your Own Device security awareness survey among professionals
  George Petihakis, Dimitrios Kiritsis, Aristeidis Farao, Panagiotis Bountakas, Aggeliki Panou, Christos Xenakis
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-10, August 29, 2023.
• An inclusive lifecycle approach for IoT devices trust and identity management
  Konstantinos Loupos, Harris Niavis, Fotis Michalopoulos, George Misiakoulis, Antonio Skarmeta, Jesús Garcia, Angel Palomares, Hui Song, Rustem Dautov, Francesca Giampaolo, Rosella Mancilla, Francesca Costantino, Dimitri Van Landuyt, Sam Michiels, Stefan More, Christos Xenakis, Michail Bampatsikos, Ilias Politis, Konstantinos Krilakis, Sokratis Vavilis
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-6, August 29, 2023.
• Towards building a self-sovereign identity framework for healthcare
  Emmanouil G Spanakis, Ilias Politis, Evangelos Markakis, Dimitra Papatsaroucha, Athanasios Vasileios Grammatopoulos, Vaios Bolgouras, Anna Angelogianni, Christos Xenakis, Vangelis Sakkalis
  2023 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 1-4, IEEE, July 24, 2023.
• OASEES: An Innovative scope for a DAO-based programmable swarm solution, for decentralizing AI applications close to data generation locations
  Ioannis P Chochliouros, Michail-Alexandros Kourtis, George Xilouris, Wouter Tavernier, Enrique Areizaga Sanchez, Margarita Anastassova, Christian Bolzmacher, Nikolay Tcholtchev, Antonello Corsi, Panagiotis Trakadas, Marta Millet, Christos Xenakis, Adnan Imeri, Francesco Bellesini, Paride D’ostilio, Albertos Markakis, Ihsan Bal Engin, Antonis Litke, Lucrezia Maria Quarato, Diego Cugat, Georgios Gardikis, Charilaos Zarakovitis, Stephane Bouilland, Zaharias Zaharis, Christina Lessi, Dimitrios Arvanitozisis, Anastasia S Spiliopoulou
  IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, pp. 91-105, Springer Nature Switzerland, June 2, 2023.
• Enhancing 3GPP CAPIF Authentication and Authorization Across Mobile Operators Using OpenID Connect and Single Sign-On
  Ioannis Stylianou, Ilias Politis, Christos Xenakis
  ICC 2023 – IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 5310-5315, IEEE, May 28, 2023.

🎤 Conferences

📚 Books

• Blue Book: A set of cybersecurity roadmaps and challenges for researchers and policymakers
  Evangelos Markatos, Kai Rannenberg, Elias Athanasopoulos, Marko Kompara, Panagiotis Bountakas, Panayiotis Kotzanikolaou, Sunil Chaudhary, Stephan Krenn, Said Daoudagh, Antonio Lioy, Antreas Dionysiou, Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Christos Douligeris, Harry Manifavas, Afonso Ferreira, Eda Marchetti, Simone Fischer-Hübner, Constantinos Patsakis, Vasileios Gkioulos, Joao Roberto Peres, Leonardo Horn Iwaya, Laurens Sion, Meiko Jensen, Silvia Sisinni, Wouter Joosen, Christos Xenakis
  The CyberSec4Europe Consortium, 2022.

📝 Journals

• A trusted platform module-based, pre-emptive and dynamic asset discovery tool
  Antonio Jesus Diaz-Honrubia, Alberto Blázquez Herranz, Lucía Prieto Santamaría, Ernestina Menasalvas Ruiz, Alejandro Rodríguez-González, Gustavo Gonzalez-Granadillo, Rodrigo Diaz, Emmanouil Panaousis, Christos Xenakis
  Journal of Information Security and Applications, Vol. 71, p. 103350, Elsevier, December 1, 2022.
• EKnad: Exploit Kits’ network activity detection
  Panagiotis Bountakas, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis
  Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 134, pp. 219-235, North-Holland, September 1, 2022.
• SAMGRID: security authorization and monitoring module based on SealedGRID platform
  George Suciu, Aristeidis Farao, Giorgio Bernardinetti, Ivan Palamà, Mari-Anais Sachian, Alexandru Vulpe, Marius-Constantin Vochin, Pavel Muresan, Michail Bampatsikos, Antonio Muñoz, Christos Xenakis
  Sensors, Vol. 22, Issue 17, p. 6527, MDPI, August 30, 2022.
• A large-scale analysis of Wi-Fi passwords
  Eleni Veroni, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis
  Journal of Information Security and Applications, Vol. 67, p. 103190, Elsevier, June 1, 2022.
• Security and privacy in distributed health care environments
  Stephen V Flowerday, Christos Xenakis
  Methods of Information in Medicine, Vol. 61, Issue 01/02, pp. 001-002, Georg Thieme Verlag KG, May 2022.
• [m] allotROPism: a metamorphic engine for malicious software variation development
  Christos Lyvas, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis
  International Journal of Information Security, pp. 1-18, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, February 1, 2022.
• Blind software-assisted conformance and security assessment of FIDO2/WebAuthn implementations
  Athanasios Vasileios Grammatopoulos, Ilias Politis, Christos Xenakis
  Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications, Vol. 13, Issue 2, pp. 96-127, 2022.

🎤 Conferences

• Improving Network, Data and Application Security for SMEs
  Christos Tselios, Ilias Politis, Christos Xenakis
  Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-8, August 23, 2022.
• Secret sharing a key in a distributed way, Lagrange vs Newton
  Anastassios Voudouris, Ilias Politis, Christos Xenakis
  Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-7, August 23, 2022.
• GTM: Game Theoretic Methodology for optimal cybersecurity defending strategies and investments
  Ioannis Kalderemidis, Aristeidis Farao, Panagiotis Bountakas, Sakshyam Panda, Christos Xenakis
  Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-9, August 23, 2022.
• Trusted and secure self-sovereign identity framework
  Vaios Bolgouras, Anna Angelogianni, Ilias Politis, Christos Xenakis
  Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-6, August 23, 2022.
• MITRE ATT&CK-driven cyber risk assessment
  Mohamed Ahmed, Sakshyam Panda, Christos Xenakis, Emmanouil Panaousis
  Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, pp. 1-10, August 23, 2022.
• Facilitating DoS Attack Detection using Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
  Christos Bellas, Georgia Kougka, Athanasios Naskos, Anastasios Gounaris, Athena Vakali, Christos Xenakis, Apostolos Papadopoulos
  Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, pp. 1-4, July 6, 2022.
• BRIDGE: BRIDGing the gap bEtween CTI production and consumption
  Marios Karatisoglou, Aristeidis Farao, Vaios Bolgouras, Christos Xenakis
  2022 14th International Conference on Communications (COMM), pp. 1-6, IEEE, June 16, 2022.
• A digital twin for the 5G era: The SPIDER cyber range
  Filippo Rebecchi, Antonio Pastor, Alberto Mozo, Chiara Lombardo, Roberto Bruschi, Ilias Aliferis, Roberto Doriguzzi-Corin, Panagiotis Gouvas, Antonio Alvarez Romero, Anna Angelogianni, Ilias Politis, Christos Xenakis
  2022 IEEE 23rd International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), pp. 567-572, IEEE, June 14, 2022.

📚 Books

• A Conceptual Model for Assessing Security and Privacy Risks in Healthcare Information Infrastructures: The CUREX Approach
  Georgia Kougka, Anastasios Gounaris, Apostolos Papadopoulos, Athena Vakali, Diana Navarro Llobet, Jos Dumortier, Eleni Veroni, Christos Xenakis, Gustavo Gonzalez-Granadillo
  Knowledge Modelling and Big Data Analytics in Healthcare, CRC Press, December 8, 2021.
• Cybersecurity threats in the healthcare domain and technical solutions
  Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Laoudias, Antonio Jesus Diaz Honrubia, Eleni Veroni, Christos Xenakis
  Handbook of Computational Neurodegeneration, Springer International Publishing, November 13, 2021.

📝 Journals

• P2ISE: preserving project integrity in CI/CD based on secure elements
  Antonio Muñoz, Aristeidis Farao, Jordy Ryan Casas Correia, Christos Xenakis
  Information, Vol. 12, Issue 9, MDPI, August 31, 2021.
• Automated cyber and privacy risk management toolkit
  Gustavo Gonzalez-Granadillo, Sofia Anna Menesidou, Dimitrios Papamartzivanos, Ramon Romeu, Diana Navarro-Llobet, Caxton Okoh, Sokratis Nifakos, Christos Xenakis, Emmanouil Panaousis
  Sensors, Vol. 21, Issue 16, MDPI, August 15, 2021.
• Sealedgrid: Secure and interoperable platform for smart grid applications
  George Suciu, Mari-Anais Sachian, Alexandru Vulpe, Marius Vochin, Aristeidis Farao, Nikolaos Koutroumpouchos, Christos Xenakis
  Sensors, Vol. 21, Issue 16, MDPI, August 12, 2021.
• How many FIDO protocols are needed? Surveying the design, security and market perspectives
  Anna Angelogianni, Ilias Politis, Christos Xenakis
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.00577, June 29, 2021.
• Contract-less mobile data access beyond 5G: Fully-decentralized, high-throughput and anonymous asset trading over the blockchain
  Dionysis Xenakis, Anastasia Tsiota, Christos-Thrasyvoulos Koulis, Christos Xenakis, Nikos Passas
  IEEE Access, Vol. 9, IEEE, May 12, 2021.
• NodeXP: NOde.js server-side JavaScript injection vulnerability DEtection and eXPloitation
  Christoforos Ntantogian, Panagiotis Bountakas, Dimitris Antonaropoulos, Constantinos Patsakis, Christos Xenakis
  Journal of Information Security and Applications, Vol. 58, Elsevier, May 1, 2021.
• P4G2Go: a privacy-preserving scheme for roaming energy consumers of the smart grid-to-go
  Aristeidis Farao, Eleni Veroni, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis
  Sensors, Vol. 21, Issue 8, MDPI, April 11, 2021.
• On an innovative architecture for digital immunity passports and vaccination certificates
  John C Polley, Ilias Politis, Christos Xenakis, Adarbad Master, Michał Kępkowski
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.04142, March 6, 2021.
• Building trust for smart connected devices: The challenges and pitfalls of TrustZone
  Nikolaos Koutroumpouchos, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis
  Sensors, Vol. 21, Issue 2, MDPI, January 13, 2021.

🎤 Conferences

• Unveiling the user requirements of a cyber range for 5G security testing and training
  Anna Angelogianni, Ilias Politis, Pier Luigi Polvanesi, Antonio Pastor, Christos Xenakis
  2021 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), October 25, 2021.
• A web tool for analyzing FIDO2/WebAuthn Requests and Responses
  Athanasios Vasileios Grammatopoulos, Ilias Politis, Christos Xenakis
  Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, August 17, 2021.
• Solving the cold start problem in Trust Management in IoT
  Michail Bampatsikos, Ilias Politis, Christos Xenakis, Stelios CA Thomopoulos
  Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, August 17, 2021.
• A comparison of natural language processing and machine learning methods for phishing email detection
  Panagiotis Bountakas, Konstantinos Koutroumpouchos, Christos Xenakis
  Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, August 17, 2021.
• A multi-factor assessment mechanism to define priorities on vulnerabilities affecting healthcare organizations
  Gustavo Gonzalez-Granadillo, Rodrigo Diaz, Eleni Veroni, Christos Xenakis
  ITASEC’21: Italian Conference on Cybersecurity, 2021.

📚 Books

No books published in 2020.

📝 Journals

• On identifying threats and quantifying cybersecurity risks of MNOs deploying heterogeneous RATs
  Anna Angelogianni, Ilias Politis, Farnaz Mohammadi, Christos Xenakis
  IEEE Access, Vol. 8, pp. 224677-224701, IEEE, December 16, 2020.
• Text and Data Mining for the National Library of Greece in consideration of Internet Security and GDPR
  Konstantinos Vavousis, Marinos Papadopoulos, Michalis Gerolimos, Christos Xenakis
  Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, Vol. 9, Issue 3, pp. 441-460, October 5, 2020.
• Introduction to the special issue of the journal of information security and applications on “cyber security in ICS & SCADA systems”
  Kevin Jones, Helge Janicke, Leandros Maglaras, Christos Xenakis
  Journal of Information Security and Applications, Vol. 54, p. 102542, Elsevier, October 1, 2020.
• Compliant and secure websites for the Greek Libraries Network of the National Library of Greece and each library-member of this Network in consideration of internet security and GDPR
  Konstantinos Vavousis, Marinos Papadopoulos, Michalis Gerolimos, Christos Xenakis
  Qualitative & Quantitative Methods in Libraries, Vol. 9, Issue 3, September 1, 2020.
• A compliant and secure IT infrastructure for the National Library of Greece in consideration of internet security and GDPR
  Konstantinos Vavousis, Marinos Papadopoulos, John Polley, Christos Xenakis
  Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, Vol. 9, Issue 2, pp. 219-236, July 3, 2020.

🎤 Conferences

• FI-WARE authorization in a Smart Grid scenario
  George Suciu, Cristiana Istrate, Mari-Anais Sachian, Alexandru Vulpe, Marius Vochin, Aristeidis Farao, Christos Xenakis
  2020 Global Internet of Things Summit (GIoTS), pp. 1-5, IEEE, June 3, 2020.
• ICITPM: integrity validation of software in iterative continuous integration through the use of Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
  Antonio Muñoz, Aristeidis Farao, Jordy Ryan Casas Correia, Christos Xenakis
  Computer Security: ESORICS 2020 International Workshops, DETIPS, DeSECSys, MPS, and SPOSE, Guildford, UK, September 17–18, 2020, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 147-165, Springer International Publishing, 2020.
• SECONDO: A platform for cybersecurity investments and cyber insurance decisions
  Aristeidis Farao, Sakshyam Panda, Sofia Anna Menesidou, Entso Veliou, Nikolaos Episkopos, George Kalatzantonakis, Farnaz Mohammadi, Nikolaos Georgopoulos, Michael Sirivianos, Nikos Salamanos, Spyros Loizou, Michalis Pingos, John Polley, Andrew Fielder, Emmanouil Panaousis, Christos Xenakis
  Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business: 17th International Conference, TrustBus 2020, Bratislava, Slovakia, September 14–17, 2020, Proceedings, pp. 65-74, Springer International Publishing, 2020.
• Sealedgrid: A secure interconnection of technologies for smart grid applications
  Aristeidis Farao, Juan Enrique Rubio, Cristina Alcaraz, Christoforos Ntantogian, Christos Xenakis, Javier Lopez
  Critical Information Infrastructures Security: 14th International Conference, CRITIS 2019, Linköping, Sweden, September 23–25, 2019, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 169-175, Springer International Publishing, 2020.