Leandros Maglaras
leandros maglaras

Prof Leandros Maglaras

Professor

Biography

Dr. Leandros A. Maglaras is a professor of cybersecurity in the School of Computing at Âé¶¹ÉçÇø. From September 2017 to November 2019, he was the Director of the National Cyber Security Authority of Greece. He obtained a B.Sc. (M.Sc. equivalent) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1998, M.Sc. in Industrial Production and Management from the University of Thessaly in 2004, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Thessaly, in 2008 and 2014 respectively. In 2018 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Intrusion Detection in SCADA systems from the University of Huddersfield He is featured in Stanford University's list of the world’s Top 2% scientists. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is an author of more than 200 papers in scientific magazines and conferences.

Esteem

Editorial Activity

  • Associate Editor for Journal of Information Processing Systems (JIPS)
  • Section Editor in Chief for MDPI Computers
  • Section Editor of Communications and Security for IntechOpen Journal for Computer science, Artificial intelligence and robotics
  • Associate Editor for Journal of Surveillance, Security and Safety (JSSS)
  • Executive Editor for Elsevier ICT Express
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Access

 

Media Activity

  • Interview - Meet the talent - 4i magazine

 

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting Professor at De Montfort University

 

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Post-Quantum ZKP for Privacy-Preserving Authentication and Model Verification in Decentralized CAV

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Andriambelo, N. H., Moradpoor, N., & Maglaras, L. (2025, May)
Post-Quantum ZKP for Privacy-Preserving Authentication and Model Verification in Decentralized CAV. Presented at CCNI 2025: 3rd International Workshop on Cybersecurity of Critical National Infrastructures, Fort Worth, Texas
Decentralized and Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) networks present significant opportunities for improving road safety, efficiency, and traffic management. However, the wid...

ARSecure: A Novel End-to-End Encryption Messaging System Using Augmented Reality

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alsop, H., Alsop, D., Solomon, J., Aumento, L., Butters, M., Millar, C., Maglaras, L., Yigit, Y., Moradpoor, N., & Canberk, B. (2025, June)
ARSecure: A Novel End-to-End Encryption Messaging System Using Augmented Reality. Poster presented at IEEE DCOSS-IoT 2025, Tuscany (Lucca), Italy
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) ensures that only the intended recipient(s) can read messages. Popular instant messaging (IM) applications such as Signal, WhatsApp, Apple's iMess...

A Novel TLS-Based Fingerprinting Approach That Combines Feature Expansion and Similarity Mapping

Journal Article
Thomson, A., Maglaras, L., & Moradpoor, N. (2025)
A Novel TLS-Based Fingerprinting Approach That Combines Feature Expansion and Similarity Mapping. Future Internet, 17(3), Article 120. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi17030120
Malicious domains are part of the landscape of the internet but are becoming more prevalent and more dangerous both to companies and to individuals. They can be hosted on vari...

EV-IRP Manager: An Electric Vehicle Incident Response Playbook Manager and Visualizer Toolkit

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alpdag, K., Moradpoor, N., Hasina Andriambelo, N., Wooderson, P., & Maglaras, L. (2024, December)
EV-IRP Manager: An Electric Vehicle Incident Response Playbook Manager and Visualizer Toolkit. Presented at SINCONF 2024: 17th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, Online
In the rapidly evolving realm of electric vehicle technology, safeguarding the cybersecurity of both electric vehicles and their charging infrastructure has become fundamental...

Adversarial Attacks on Supervised Energy-Based Anomaly Detection in Clean Water Systems

Journal Article
Moradpoor, N., Abah, E., Robles-Durazno, A., & Maglaras, L. (2025)
Adversarial Attacks on Supervised Energy-Based Anomaly Detection in Clean Water Systems. Electronics, 14(3), Article 639. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics14030639
Critical National Infrastructure includes large networks such as telecommunications, transportation, health services, police, nuclear power plants, and utilities like clean wa...

JamShield: A Machine Learning Detection System For Over-the-Air Jamming Attacks

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Panitsas, I., Yigit, Y., Tassiulas, L., Maglaras, L. A., & Canberk, B. (2025, June)
JamShield: A Machine Learning Detection System For Over-the-Air Jamming Attacks. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), Montreal, Canada

SA-FLIDS: secure and authenticated federated learning-based intelligent network intrusion detection system for smart healthcare

Journal Article
Bensaid, R., Labraoui, N., Abba Ari, A. A., Saidi, H., Mboussam Emati, J. H., & Maglaras, L. (2024)
SA-FLIDS: secure and authenticated federated learning-based intelligent network intrusion detection system for smart healthcare. PeerJ Computer Science, 10, Article e2414. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.2414
Smart healthcare systems are gaining increased practicality and utility, driven by continuous advancements in artificial intelligence technologies, cloud and fog computing, an...

PULRAS: A Novel PUF-Based Lightweight Robust Authentication Scheme

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yaqub, Z., Yigit, Y., Maglaras, L., Tan, Z., & Wooderson, P. (2024, April)
PULRAS: A Novel PUF-Based Lightweight Robust Authentication Scheme. Presented at The 20th Annual International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT 2024), Abu Dhabi, UAE
In the rapidly evolving landscape of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) play a critical role in enhancing road safety and traffic flo...

APOLLO: A Proximity-Oriented, Low-Layer Orchestration Algorithm for Resources Optimization in Mist Computing

Journal Article
Babaghayou, M., Chaib, N., Maglaras, L., Yigit, Y., Amine Ferrag, M., Marsh, C., & Moradpoor, N. (2025)
APOLLO: A Proximity-Oriented, Low-Layer Orchestration Algorithm for Resources Optimization in Mist Computing. Wireless Networks, 31, 679–694. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-024-03791-5
The fusion of satellite technologies with the Internet of Things (IoT) has propelled the evolution of mobile computing, ushering in novel communication paradigms and data mana...

Proximity-Driven, Load-Balancing Task Offloading Algorithm for Enhanced Performance in Satellite-Enabled Mist Computing

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Babaghayou, M., Chaib, N., Maglaras, L., Yigit, Y., Ferrag, M. A., & Marsh, C. (2023, December)
Proximity-Driven, Load-Balancing Task Offloading Algorithm for Enhanced Performance in Satellite-Enabled Mist Computing. Presented at 16th EAI International Conference, WiCON 2023, Athens, Greece
In an era of rapidly evolving mobile computing, integrating satellite technologies with the Internet of Things (IoT) creates new communication and data management horizons. Ou...

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