Gianluca Caiazza

About

Gianluca Caiazza is a cybersecurity researcher specializing in robotic systems security, with a particular focus on securing the Robot Operating System (ROS) ecosystem. His work sits at the critical intersection of robotics middleware and cybersecurity, addressing the growing vulnerability of increasingly connected robotic systems deployed in safety-critical and industrial environments. Caiazza has made foundational contributions to securing both ROS 1 and ROS 2 frameworks. His development of SROS2 — a comprehensive suite of cybersecurity tools for ROS 2 — has garnered 40 citations and stands as a landmark contribution to standardizing security practices across the robotics industry. His earlier work on SROS1 and foundational security enhancements demonstrates a sustained, longitudinal commitment to this challenge. His penetration testing research for ROS, his most-cited work with 52 citations, provides practitioners with essential offensive security methodologies for identifying system vulnerabilities before deployment. Beyond access control and authentication, Caiazza has pioneered novel approaches such as blockchain-based immutable logging for robotic black boxes and static analysis techniques for automatically extracting security policies in ROS 2 applications. With over 160 cumulative citations, his body of work has meaningfully shaped how the robotics community conceptualizes and implements security across distributed robotic architectures.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Penetration Testing ROS

   52 citations · 2019
2. 2
   SROS2: Usable Cyber Security Tools for ROS 2

   40 citations · 2022
3. 3
   Black Block Recorder: Immutable Black Box Logging for Robots via Blockchain

   26 citations · 2019
4. 4
   SROS1: Using and Developing Secure ROS1 Systems

   23 citations · 2018
5. 5
   Procedurally Provisioned Access Control for Robotic Systems

   9 citations · 2018
6. 6
   Application-level security for robotic networks

   7 citations · 2021
7. 7
   Automating ROS2 Security Policies Extraction through Static Analysis

   3 citations · 2024
8. 8
   Inference of access policies through static analysis

   3 citations · 2024
9. 9
   Security Enhancements of Robot Operating Systems

   2 citations · 2017
10. 10
    SROS2: Usable Cyber Security Tools for ROS 2

    2 citations · 2022

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