Manuel Suárez Román

Contact Details

Office: 2.2.B08

Email address: mansuare+totally-not-span@pa.uc3m.es

Phone number: +34 91 624 5952

Fax number: +34 91 624 9129

External links

Short bio

I’m a PhD Student at the Computer Security Lab (COSEC) from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. I studied a double degree in mathematics and computer science at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and I specialized by studying a master’s degree in cybersecurity and another one in artificial intelligence. Before joining the lab, I previously worked in the Cryptology and nformation Security research group (GiCSI) and in the Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection research group (GiCP) of the Leonardo Torres Quevedo Institute, ITEFI, of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

Research

My research interests sit at the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and cyber threat intelligence (CTI), with a focus on Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). I develop graph- and learning-based methods that leverage system-level data provenance to detect, explain, and evaluate host-based APT activity, including work on causality-preserving metrics for provenance-based intrusion detection systems.

In parallel, I explore CTI problems around threat actor characterization, attribution, and the normalization of inconsistent naming taxonomies across vendors, using large-scale TTP and open-source intelligence signals.

Service

• Reviewer: Journal of Computers & Security.

Publications