I’m currently a PhD student in PragSec Lab at Stony Brook University. I work under the supervision of Professor Nikiforakis, aiming uncover vulnerabilities and practices, that make the web insecure. More specifically, my research goal is to make web applications safer, by reducing their attack surface through software debloating. In my latest work (published at USENIX security 2019) I showed that we can remove up to 60% of historical CVEs and reduce the size of a web application by 65% while maintaining the most popular functionality of the evaluated web applications. This work requires the dynamic analysis of web applications written in PHP and rewriting parts of their code. Orthogonally to my work on attack surface reduction, I study malicious bots on the internet devising ways to protect websites against them by differentiating their traffic from regular user traffic.
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