Ferdinand Brasser

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Total Citations

289

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About

Ferdinand Brasser is a leading researcher in the security of embedded and autonomous systems, with a focus on ensuring the integrity and resilience of devices that underpin modern critical infrastructure. His work addresses the unique challenges of securing large-scale, dynamic networks of interconnected devices—from industrial control systems and robotic swarms to vehicular ad-hoc networks and delivery drones. Brasser’s major contributions include pioneering attestation techniques that verify the trustworthiness of these systems at scale. His seminal paper "SEDA" (2015), with over 200 citations, introduced a scalable attestation mechanism for dynamic device swarms, a foundational concept in the field. He further advanced this with "DIAT" (2019, 67 citations), which ensures data integrity for collaborative autonomous systems, and "PAtt" (2019, 21 citations), a physics-based attestation method for programmable logic controllers in industrial settings. By bridging cybersecurity with physical process control, Brasser’s work directly protects safety-critical applications from cyber-attacks, making him a key figure in the evolution of trustworthy autonomous systems.