Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec

Biography

I am a Ph.D. student in Information and Systems Engineering at the NSERC/Ericsson Industrial Research Chair in SDN/NFV Security, Concordia University, Montreal, where I am supervised by Dr. Lingyu Wang and Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar. I obtained my M.A.Sc in Information Systems Security from Concordia University, Montreal. Previously, I studied embedded systems, hardware acceleration and electronics at IMT Atlantique, France. I am also interested in ML and neural networks. Currently, my research interests include containers security, 5G security, cloud-computing, network function virtualization (NFV) and OS security.

Publications

  1. [IEEE S&P 2025] "CONnecting The EXtra doTS (CONTEXTS): Correlating External Information about Point of Interest for Attack Investigation"
    Sareh Mohammadi, Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Azadeh Tabiban, Lingyu Wang, Tomás Navarro Múnera, Yosr Jarraya.
    Proc. the 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2025), San Francisco, USA, May 12 - 15, 2025. (Acceptance ratio 257/1740≈14.8%)

  2. [IEEE TIFS] "ACE-WARP: A Cost-Effective Approach to Proactive and Non-disruptive Attack Mitigation in Kubernetes Clusters"
    Sima Bagheri, Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Mohammad Ekramul Kabir, Suryadipta Majumdar, Lingyu Wang, Yosr Jarraya, Boubakr Nour, Makan Pouzandi.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (Impact Factor 6.3)

  3. [IEEE TDSC] "PerfSPEC: Performance Profiling-based Proactive Security Policy Enforcement for Containers"
    Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Sima Bagheri, Mahmood GholipourChoubeh, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Lingyu Wang, Makan Pourzandi.
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (Impact Factor 7.3)

  4. [CODASPY 2024] "CCSM: Building Cross-Cluster Security Models for Edge-Core Environments Involving Multiple Kubernetes Clusters"
    Mahmood GholipourChoubeh, Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Lingyu Wang, Boubakr Nour, Makan Pourzandi.
    Proc. the 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2024), Porto, Portugal, June 19 - 21, 2024. (Acceptance ratio 34/160≈21.25%)

  5. [US PATENT] "Dynamic System Calls-level Security Defense System for Containerized Applications"
    Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya.
    US Patent Application, Filed with Ericsson, February 22, 2024.

  6. [NDSS 2024] "Phoenix: Surviving Unpatched Vulnerabilities via Accurate and Efficient Filtering of Syscall Sequences"
    Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Yosr Jarraya, Lingyu Wang, Suryadipta Majumdar, Makan Pourzandi.
    Proc. the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2024), San Diego, USA, February 26 - March 1, 2024. (Acceptance ratio 140/694≈20.2%)

  7. [IEEE ICC 2023] "Warping the Defence Timeline: Non-disruptive Proactive Attack Mitigation for Kubernetes Clusters"
    Sima Bagheri, Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Lingyu Wang, Makan Pourzandi.
    Proc. the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2023), Rome, Italy, 28 May - 01 June, 2023. (Acceptance ratio 1,098/2,778≈39.5%)

  8. [Master's thesis] "Proactive Security Policy Enforcement for Containers"
    Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec
    Master of Applied Science - Thesis - Concordia University.

  9. [CODASPY 2022] "ProSPEC: Proactive Security Policy Enforcement for Containers"
    Hugo Kermabon-Bobinnec, Mahmood GholipourChoubeh, Sima Bagheri, Suryadipta Majumdar, Yosr Jarraya, Makan Pourzandi, Lingyu Wang.
    Proc. the 12th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2022), Baltimore-Washington DC Area, USA, April 24 - 26, 2022. (Acceptance ratio 30/111≈27.0%)

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Contact e-mail: hugo dot kermabonbobinnec {a†} concordia dot ca