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Abdallah Dawoud
dblp:239/8919
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3ranked-venue papers
2as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 2 · 2 first-author · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
2 papers |
Web and mobile security · 45% Systems and software security · 28% Authentication and access control · 28% | |
| Software engineering, system software, and programming languages
1 paper |
Program analysis · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Web and mobile security › mobile security
android security |
0.6 | 2 | 2021 | Bringing Balance to the Force: Dynamic Analysis of the Android Application Framework · NDSS 2021 DroidCap: OS Support for Capability-based Permissions in Android · NDSS 2019 |
Authentication and access control › access control models
capability-based access control |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | DroidCap: OS Support for Capability-based Permissions in Android · NDSS 2019 |
Systems and software security
operating system security |
0.4 | 1 | 2019 | DroidCap: OS Support for Capability-based Permissions in Android · NDSS 2019 |
Program analysis
dynamic analysis |
0.1 | 1 | 2021 | Bringing Balance to the Force: Dynamic Analysis of the Android Application Framework · NDSS 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
dynamic analysis · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Leveraging LLMs Towards Assistant-based Support for Industrial Threat ModelsabstractThreat models contribute to strengthen the security of an enterprise system by listing the cybersecurity threats that might affect it as well as possible mitigations to such threats. Given the importance of these models, different tools have been devised to support creating or updating threat models. However, these tools focus mainly on the needs of cybersecurity experts, often overlooking non-expert users.To address this gap, in the first part of this paper we present a chat-based LLM assistant to answer both expert and non-expert queries on threat models. The assistant is based on a microservice architecture and uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to extract relevant information from an industrial threat model.Guaranteeing the reliability of an LLM’s answers in sensitive fields such as cybersecurity is paramount. For this reason, in the second part of this paper, we evaluate the LLM assistant using (i) Bleu and Rouge score metrics, (ii) human evaluation, and (iii) an automatic LLM-as-a-judge approach.The evaluation, conducted on 275 test cases, confirms the accuracy of the answers provided by our LLM-based threat model assistant. Additionally, the results of the human and LLM-as-a-judge evaluations are consistent. This corroborates the effectiveness of automatic LLM-as-a-judge methods in assessing the performance of LLM-based industrial solutions. Enrico Fregnan, Christian Göttel, Balz Maag, Abdallah Dawoud, Georgios Nakas |
ETFA | 4 |
| 2021 | Bringing Balance to the Force: Dynamic Analysis of the Android Application Framework
Abdallah Dawoud, Sven Bugiel |
NDSS | 1 |
| 2019 | DroidCap: OS Support for Capability-based Permissions in Android
Abdallah Dawoud, Sven Bugiel |
NDSS | 1 |