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Dr. Davide Bove

Security Expert · Consultant · Engineer

I can break it, I can fix it, I can make the rules, or make the others follow them.

Find out what I can do for you below, or check my blog if you are interested in IT and security topics.


Security Services

Consulting

Add an experienced advisor to your organization or project and implement robust security architectures, shape security policies, perform a risk analysis, and assess the security of your product, organization or internal structure.

Security Training

Receive training for your employees and co-workers on hacking techniques and countermeasures. I also offer talks on different technical topics.

Security Audit

Assess the security of your products and network and find vulnerabilities in your web application, Android app or in a third party software you use in your business.

Expertise

Education

  • Security Courses
  • Public Talks
  • Staff training

Network Security

  • Firewalls
  • Exposed systems
  • Intrusion Detection

System Security

  • Operating Systems
  • Server Security
  • Secure DevOps

Compliance


Publications

2024

Trust In Your Pockets: On the Security of Mobile Devices through Trusted Computing
Bove, D. (2024). Dissertation.
URL: https://doi.org/10.25593/open-fau-510

A Large-Scale Study on the Prevalence and Usage of TEE-based Features on Android
Bove, D. (2024). In Association for Computing Machinery (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security. Vienna, Austria, AT
URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/3664476.3664486

2023

Basic Secure Services for Standard RISC-V Architectures
Bove, D. & Funk, J. (2023). Computers & Security, Volume 133
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2023.103415

2022

Secure Services for Standard RISC-V Architectures
Bove, D. (2022). In Association for Computing Machinery (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security. Vienna, Austria, AT
URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3538969.3538998 [Mirror]

SoK: The Evolution of Trusted UI on Mobile
Bove, Bove, D. (2022). In Association for Computing Machinery (Eds.), ASIA CCS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 616 - 629). Nagasaki, Japan.
URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3488932.3517417 [Open Access]

2019

Investigating Characteristics of Attacks on Public Cloud Systems
Bove, D. & Müller, T. (2019). In: 2019 6th IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing (CSCloud)/ 2019 5th IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Scalable Cloud (EdgeCom), Paris, France.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/CSCloud/EdgeCom.2019.00-13

In pursuit of a secure UI: The cycle of breaking and fixing Android’s UI
Bove, D. & Kalysch, A. (2019). it - Information Technology, Methods and Applications of Informatics and Information Technology.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/itit-2018-0023

2018

How Android’s UI Security is Undermined by Accessibility
Kalysch, A., Bove, D., & Müller, T. (2018). In: Proceedings of the 2nd Reversing and Offensive-oriented Trends Symposium (pp. 2:1--2:10). Vienna, AT: New York, NY, USA: ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).
URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3289595.3289597 [Mirror]

Using Honeypots to Detect and Analyze Attack Patterns on Cloud Infrastructures
Bove, D. (2018). Unpublished master's thesis. Friedrich-Alexander University, Erlangen, Germany. URL: https://davidebove.com/files/thesis-bove-public.pdf


Contact!

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