Bio
Stefano Galantucci is a Research Fellow at the Computer Science Department, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. In 2024 he received a PhD degree in Computer Science, defending a thesis in cybersecurity concerning innovative methodologies for Firewalls and Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems. He also holds a MSc degree in Cybersecurity with full marks and honors and a BSc degree in Computer Science with full marks and honors. He has published various scientific papers in international journals and conferences on topics covering the research areas of cybersecurity, network and application security, cryptography, and biometrics. He is a Reviewer for many Journals, including IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and Computers & Security.
Teaching
Professore a contratto (adjunct professor/lecturer):
- Crittografia (Cryptography) at the MSc in Sicurezza Informatica (Cybersecurity)
Cultore della materia (member of the exam commission):
- Architettura degli elaboratori e sistemi operativi (Computer architecture and operating systems) at the BSc in Informatica (Computer Science)
- Modelli e metodi per la sicurezza delle applicazioni (Models and methods for application security) at the BSc in Informatica (Computer Science)
- Sistemi biometrici (Biometric systems) at the MSc in Sicurezza Informatica (Cybersecurity)
Publications
2025
- CARIOCA: prioritizing the use of IoC by threats assessment shared on the MISP platform
Piero Delvecchio, Stefano Galantucci, Andrea Iannacone, Giuseppe Pirlo
Int. J. Inf. Sec. 24[2]: 98
DOI: 10.1007/S10207-025-01006-2 - FOBICS: Assessing project security level through a metrics framework that evaluates DevSecOps performance
Alessandro Caniglia, Vincenzo Dentamaro, Stefano Galantucci, Donato Impedovo
Inf. Softw. Technol. 178: 107605
DOI: 10.1016/J.INFSOF.2024.107605 - MAGICIAN: Malware classification Approach through Generation Image using a Conditional and wassersteIn generative Adversarial Network variants
Stefano Galantucci, Andrea Iannacone, Giuseppe Pirlo, Lucia Sarcinella, Alessandro Stamerra
ICAIC 2025: 1-7
DOI: 10.1109/ICAIC63015.2025.10848615
2024
- PROGESI: A PROxy Grammar to Enhance Web Application Firewall for SQL Injection Prevention
Antonio Coscia, Vincenzo Dentamaro, Stefano Galantucci, Antonio Maci, Giuseppe Pirlo
IEEE Access 12: 107689-107703
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3438092 - Automatic decision tree-based NIDPS ruleset generation for DoS/DDoS attacks
Antonio Coscia, Vincenzo Dentamaro, Stefano Galantucci, Antonio Maci, Giuseppe Pirlo
J. Inf. Secur. Appl. 82: 103736
DOI: 10.1016/J.JISA.2024.103736
2023
- An innovative two-stage algorithm to optimize Firewall rule ordering
Antonio Coscia, Vincenzo Dentamaro, Stefano Galantucci, Antonio Maci, Giuseppe Pirlo
Comput. Secur. 134: 103423
DOI: 10.1016/J.COSE.2023.103423 - YAMME: a YAra-byte-signatures Metamorphic Mutation Engine
Antonio Coscia, Vincenzo Dentamaro, Stefano Galantucci, Antonio Maci, Giuseppe Pirlo
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. 18: 4530-4545
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2023.3294059 - A Heuristic to Select the Optimal Transformation Matrixes in Bio-Convolving with Mixing Transform
Francesco Castro, Stefano Galantucci, Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo
ITASEC 2023
2022
- A Study on Malware Detection and Classification Using the Analysis of API Calls Sequences Through Shallow Learning and Recurrent Neural Networks
Angelo Cannarile, Francesco Carrera, Stefano Galantucci, Andrea Iannacone, Giuseppe Pirlo
ITASEC 2022: 124-134 - A Novel Genetic Algorithm Approach for Firewall Policy Optimization
Antonio Coscia, Vincenzo Dentamaro, Stefano Galantucci, Donato Impedovo, Antonio Maci
ITASEC 2022: 236-248
2021
- One Time User Key: A User-Based Secret Sharing XOR-ed Model for Multiple User Cryptography in Distributed Systems
Stefano Galantucci, Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo
IEEE Access 9: 148521-148534
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3124637 - A Case Study of Navigation System Assistance with Safety Purposes in the Context of Covid-19 Pandemic
Stefano Galantucci, Paolo Giglio, Vincenzo Dentamaro, Giuseppe Pirlo
INTERACT 2021: 351-354
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85607-6_35 - Ensemble Consensus: An Unsupervised Algorithm for Anomaly Detection in Network Security data
Vincenzo Dentamaro, Vito Nicola Convertini, Stefano Galantucci, Paolo Giglio, Tonino Palmisano, Giuseppe Pirlo
ITASEC 2021: 309-318