More about TU/e

I have completed my PhD-TA in Jan 2024 at the Security Cluster of Eindhoven University of Technology under the supervision of dr. Allodi and dr. Zannone.

Link to my thesis: https://paolokoelio.github.io/publication/burda_let_2024

My research explored the interactions between social engineering attacks and human cognition. Phishing attacks exploiting target-related information can be particularly effective and difficult to counteract, therefore my focus lies on characterizing such threats and defending against them with technological and organizatinoal [1,2] methods.

To enable my research, together with my group, we established a Research as a Service collaboration with the Information Services department at TU/e in terms of:

• University as a lab: periodic, structured experimentation within TU/e
• Synchronization of needs and opportunities: feedback loop between my research group and the IS department

The IT department receives:

• evaluations of organizational resilience (e.g., spear-phishing vulnerability and response effectiveness assessment)
• reports and recommendations (e.g., policy effectiveness, security mitigation strategies, testing new ideas)

We receive:

• access to data and infrastructure for research (e.g., phishing attacks, network traffic)
• support and collaboration for deployments (e.g., experiments, involvement in anti-phishing activities)