Marinos Tsantekidis
Hans-Sommer-Str 66, 38106 · Braunschweig, Germany
m.tsantekidis@tu-braunschweig.de
Hi there! I am Marinos Tsantekidis, a Ph.D. candidate at the Embedded Computer Security Workgroup of the Institute of Computer and Network Engineering at TU Braunschweig - Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Vassilis Prevelakis. I also hold a research assistant position at the Institute of Computer Science in FORTH - Greece, working with Prof. Sotiris Ioannidis. I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2011 and my Master of Science degree in Digital Systems Security from the University of Piraeus, Greece in 2015. My research focuses on security at the operating system level. Specifically, I am working on building a secure execution environment that leverages both kernel-side as well as user-space approaches in Linux, that work transparently and efficiently towards strengthening the runtime security of applications against several types of attacks. This is my personal website where you can find some info on me, including a list of my publications, prior working experience and education, etc.
Publications
2021
2020
2019
R&D Projects
Current
CONCORDIA (stands for Cyber security cOmpeteNCe fOr Research anD InnovAtion) aims to build the European Secure, Resilient and Trusted Ecosystem. The vision of CONCORDIA is to build a community with a strong cooperation between all stakeholders, understanding that all stakeholders have their KPIs, bridging among them and fostering the development of IT products and solutions along the whole supply chain. Technologically, it projects a broad and evolvable data-driven and cognitive E2E Security approach for the ever-complex ever-interconnected compositions of emergent data-driven cloud, IoT and edge-assisted ICT ecosystems.
CONCORDIA is funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme under Grant Agreement No. 830927.
Project duration: 48 months. Started January 1st, 2019.
Project URL: https://www.concordia-h2020.eu/
THREAT-ARREST aims to develop an advanced training platform incorporating emulation, simulation, serious gaming and visualization capabilities to adequately prepare stakeholders with different types of responsibility and levels of expertise in defending high-risk cyber systems and organizations to counter advanced, known and new cyber-attacks.
THREAT-ARREST is funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme under Grant Agreement No. 786890.
Project duration: 48 months. Started September 1st, 2018.
Project URL: https://www.threat-arrest.eu
SmartShip aims to bring together Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) of focused Universities, Research Institutions and Companies oriented into the maritime sector in order to build a holistic integrated ICT-based framework for the sustainable, individualized and completely automated energy management of ships.
SmartShip is funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme under Grant Agreement No. 823916.
Project duration: 48 months. Started on January 1st, 2019.
Project URL: https://smartship2020.eu
Completed
SHARCS (standing for Secure Hardware-Software Architectures for Robust Computing Systems) designed, built and demonstrated secure-by-design system architectures that achieved end-to-end security for their users. SHARCS achieved this by systematically analyzing and extending, as necessary, every hardware and software layer in a computing system.
SHARCS was funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme under Grant Agreement No. 644571.
Project duration: 36 months. Started on January 1st, 2015. Ended on January 1st, 2018.
Project URL: http://sharcs-project.eu
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Work Experience
Research assistant
Ph.D. candidate
- Develop an intermediate library that monitors calls to external functions of the OpenSSL library and examines their arguments to ensure that they comply with the security policy associated with the running program.
- Develop a Linux kernel extension that separates the memory into regions based on the loaded libraries. So, at any point in time, only pages belonging to a specific region are marked as executable. When code branches to a page outside the "home" region, it lands in a non-executable page, a fault occurs and the kernel takes over. This way, the flow of execution can be manipulated, access to executables/libraries can be monitored and their functionality changed when there is suspicion of foul play.
Programmer / Web Developer
- Web / 3D applications developer
- Mobile applications programmer
- Database programmer
Programmer / Web Developer
- Web applications developer
- Applications programmer
- Database programmer
- Design and installation of GIS websites
Informatics Intern
- Database programmer
- Computer / network technician
- Technical support
Education
Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
University of Piraeus, Greece
Master thesis on developing a custom Android CAPTCHA mechanism (modification of Android's source code to intercept outgoing calls and SMS and display a CAPTCHA puzzle to solve, in order to continue)
Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece
Bachelor thesis on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) systems security
Skills
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Languages
- Greek: Native speaker
- English: Listening: C1 | Reading: C1 | Spoken interaction: B2 | Spoken production: C1 | Writing: C2 *
- French: Listening: B1 | Reading: A2 | Spoken interaction: A2 | Spoken production: A2 | Writing: A2 *
- German: No formal training. Whatever I learned in practice, for several years that I've been living in Germany
- * Based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Interests
Apart from being a security researcher / web developer, I enjoy being outdoors. In the winter, I like to go hiking in the mountains. During the warmer months I enjoy going camping, spending time at the beach and doing watersports.
However, I also like spending time at home. I follow many kinds of movies and television shows, I am an aspiring cook and I spend a large amount of my free time exploring the latest technolgy achievements.