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Nelson Escravana. Director of Cybersecurity Unit at INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, has more than 25 years of professional experience in the fields of telecommunications and information security and is a regular consultant for national and European entities. He is responsible for conducting security audits within incident prevention and response, analysis and solution design. It also regularly conducts training sessions and seminars on cybersecurity and has participated in dozens of European and National R&D projects. He is the author of several scientific research papers on blockchain, peer-to-peer networks, distributed systems, cryptographic protocols, intrusion detection systems and cyber incident impact analysis. He completed his Computer Science and Engineering degree in 2002 at the University of Lisbon Instituto Superior Técnico. He is a member of the Board of Directors, the Executive Board at INOV. He is the executive manager for IT and Cybersecurity of INESC Serviços, a shared services center of the INESC group in Lisbon, including the INESC CSIRT (part of national CSIRT network).
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Nelson Escravana

Citation names

  • Escravana, Nelson

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
6D1C-40CE-E32E
ORCID iD
0009-0004-1995-5381

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2010/03
Concluded
Specialised Course in Management (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Portugal
2002/09/14
Concluded
Computer Science and Engineering (Licenciatura)
Major in Computer Systems
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019 - Current Lecturer (University Teacher) Associação para o Desenvolvimento do Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2003 - 2003 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Instituto Superior Dom Afonso III, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution
Employer
2023/11 - Current Cybersecurity Specialization Installation Committee Ordem dos Engenheiros, Portugal
2021/06/21 - Current Member of the Executive Board INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
2015/07/01 - Current Member of the Board INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
2012/01/01 - Current Executive Manager IT & Cybersecurity Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/01/01 - Current Director of Cybersecurity Unit INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
2010/01/01 - 2020/12/31 Diretor of Communications and Cybersecurity Unit INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
2004 - 2010 Head of Telecommunications Applications and Cybersecurity R&D INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
2001 - 2003 Head of IT department INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal
2001 - 2003 Project Manager INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
1998/01 - 2000/12 Project Manager Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal
1997 - 1999 System Administrator Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
1998 - 1998/12/31 Programmer Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal
1994 - 1998 Consulting and Software Development Softires Informática, Portugal
1997 - 1997 System Administrator Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2023/09/01 - Current BLOCKCHAIN.PT
C632734434-00467077
Principal investigator
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP
Ongoing
2023/09/01 - Current C-Hub: Cybersecurity European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH)
Researcher & Member of the Project Executive Board
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP
Ongoing
2023/01/01 - Current ECP - Ecocerâmica e Cristal de Portugal
C644916391-00000029
Researcher
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP
Ongoing
2022/12/01 - Current CYLCOMED - Cyber securitY tooLbox for COnnected MEdical Devices
Researcher
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
European Commission - Horizon Europe
Ongoing
2022/12/01 - Current MultiRATE - Holistic framework for the MatUrity evaLuaTIon of ReAdiness level for security TEchnologies
Researcher
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
European Commission - Horizon Europe
Ongoing
2022/11/01 - Current LAGO - LESSEN DATA ACCESS AND GOVERNANCE OBSTACLES
Researcher
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
European Commission - Horizon Europe
Ongoing
2022/07/01 - Current TRUSTyFOOD - Stakeholders-driven pathways for blockchain implementation in the agri-food sector
Researcher
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
European Commission - Horizon Europe
Ongoing
2021/10/01 - Current STARLIGHT - Sustainable Autonomy and Resilience for LEAs using AI against High priority Threats
Researcher
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
European Commission - H2020
Ongoing
2021/09/01 - Current IRIS - artificial Intelligence threat Reporting and Incident response System
Project Coordinator
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
European Commission
Ongoing
2020 - Current GRACE - Global Response Against Child Exploitation
883341
Researcher
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2019/05 - Current SATIE - Security of Air Transport Infrastructure of Europe
Researcher
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2019/02/01 - Current SPARTA - Strategic programs for advanced research and technology in Europe
Principal investigator
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Horizon 2020
Ongoing
2018/12 - Current EUNOMIA - User-oriented, secure, trustful & decentralised social media
Principal investigator
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
European Commission - H2020
Ongoing
2021/06/01 - 2023/03/31 Trace & Trust Hubs for MED food
GA 1931 - PRIMA
Researcher
2022/01/01 - 2022/11/30 NIGHTINGALE - Novel InteGrated toolkit for enhanced pre-Hospital life support and Triage IN challenGing And Large Emergencies
Researcher
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
European Commission
Ongoing
2020/06/01 - 2022/05/31 ENSURESEC - End-to-end Security of the Digital Single Market’s E-commerce and Delivery Service Ecosystem
Researcher
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
European Commission
Concluded
2020/04/01 - 2021/05/31 Trace & Trust Hubs for MED food
GA 1931 - PRIMA
Principal investigator
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Ongoing
2016 - 2021 ASGARD - Analysis System for Gathered Raw Data
Principal investigator
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
European Commission - H2020
Concluded
2017/05/01 - 2019/10/31 COMPACT - COmpetitive Methods to protect local Public Administration from Cyber security Threats
Principal investigator
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
European Commission - H2020
Concluded
2017/01 - 2018/12 ALFA - Advanced Low Flying Aircrafts Detection and Tracking
Researcher
INOV - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Inovação, Portugal
European Commission - H2020
Concluded
2015 - 2018 DOGANA - aDvanced sOcial enGineering And vulNerability Assesment Framework
Principal investigator
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
European Commission - H2020
Concluded
2014/06 - 2017/05 ECOSSIAN - European Control System Security Incident Analysis Network
Principal investigator
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Concluded
2013/01 - 2015/12 AIRBEAM - AIRBorne information for Emergency situation Awareness and Monitoring
GA 261769
Researcher
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Concluded
2013 - 2015 HEALTHY SYSTEM NFC
30365
Researcher
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2011/04 - 2014/09 SECUR-ED - Secured Urban Transportation - European Demonstration
GA 261605
Principal investigator
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Concluded
2011/06/01 - 2014 TICE HEALTHY
13842
Researcher
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2010 - 2014 TASS - Total Airport Security System
GA 241905
Researcher
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Concluded
2010 - 2013 ISOFIN
13837
Researcher
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2010 - 2013 FALA COMIGO
13449
Principal investigator
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2008 - 2010 ICARUS
3076
Technical development
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2004 - 2006 Airnet - Airport network for mobiles surveillance and alerting
Technical development
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
European Commission Sixth Framework Programme
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2014 - 2014 NFC4SURE
N/D - subcontratação
Researcher
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2008 - 2011 My-e-Director 2012 - Real-Time Context-Aware and Personalized Media Streaming Environments for Large Scale Broadcasting Applications
GA 215248
Researcher
INOV INESC INOVAÇÃO - Instituto de Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
European Commission Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Feio, Clarisse; Santos, Nuno; Escravana, Nelson; Bernardo Pacheco. "An Empirical Study of DevSecOps Focused on Continuous Security Testing". Paper presented in Proceedings of DevSecOpsRO @ EuroSP 2024, 2024.
  2. Diogo Alves; Apolinário, Filipe; Bernardo Pacheco; Escravana, Nelson; Grilo, António. "Calculating Business Impact Assessment of Cyber-Threats". Paper presented in IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Aveiro, 2023.
    Published
  3. Apolinário, Filipe; João Guiomar; Éric Hervé; Sven Hrastnik; Escravana, Nelson; Miguel L. Pardal; Correia, Miguel. "ComSEC: Secure communications for baggage handling systems". Paper presented in The 3rd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection (CPS4CIP 2022), 2022.
    Published
  4. Carvalho, Olga; Apolinário, Filipe; Escravana, Nelson; Ribeiro, Carlos. "CIIA critical infrastructure impact assessment.". Paper presented in SAC 22, 2022.
    10.1145/3477314.3507313
  5. Apolinário, Filipe; Escravana, Nelson; Hervé, Éric; Pardal, Miguel L.; Correia, Miguel. "FingerCI: generating specifications for critical infrastructures". Paper presented in SAC 22, 2022.
    10.1145/3477314.3507323
  6. Kopke, Corinna; Konig, Louis; Faist, Katja; Fehling-Kaschek, Mirjam; Finger, Jorg; Stolz, Alexander; Burke, Kelly; et al. "Security and Resilience for Airport Infrastructure". Paper presented in 30th European Safety and Reliability Conference and the 15th Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management Conference, 2020.
    Accepted
  7. Lima, Joao; Apolinário, Filipe; Escravana, Nelson; Ribeiro, Carlos. "BP-IDS: Using business process specification to leverage intrusion detection in critical infrastructures". Paper presented in The 31st International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Coimbra, 2020.
  8. Kopke, Corinna; Srivastava, Kushal; Koenig, Louis; Miller, Natalie; Fehling-Kaschek, Mirjam; Burke, Kelly; Mangini,Matteo; et al. "Impact Propagation in Airport Systems". Paper presented in Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection, Guildford, 2020.
  9. Escravana, Nelson; Bernardo Pacheco. "DOGANA: Research on Human element advanced vulnerability assessment". Paper presented in eCrime Cyber- Security Symposium 2017, Porto, 2017.
  10. Antunes, Diogo; Lima, Joao; Pereira, Goncalo; Escravana, Nelson; Ribeiro, Carlos. "NFC4Sure: Mobile ticketing system". Paper presented in 2016 Second International Conference on Mobile and Secure Services (MobiSecServ), 2016.
    Published • 10.1109/mobisecserv.2016.7440229
  11. Escravana, Nelson. "ECOSSIAN: Research on cyber threat detection and incident handling in European critical infrastructure". Paper presented in Rail Cybersecurity Summit, Londres, 2016.
    Published
  12. Escravana, Nelson. "Effectively detection of intrusions using business process specifications". Paper presented in FIRST/TF-CSIRT Techinical Coloquium, Lisboa, 2013.
Conference poster
  1. Escravana, Nelson; João Lima; Carlos Ribeiro. "BPIDS-Using Business Model Specification in Intrusion Detection". Paper presented in Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses 17th International Symposium, 2014.
Journal article
  1. Monachelis, P; Kasnesis, P.; Patrikakis, C.; Liang, X.; Heartfield, R.; Loukas, G.; Escravana, Nelson (6D1C-40CE-E32E); Louca, S.. "How to trust a stranger". Cutter IT Journal (2020):
  2. Escravana, Nelson; João Lima; Carlos Ribeiro. "Ciber(in)segurança da Infraestrutura de Transportes Públicos". Nação e Defesa 133 (2012): 178-195.
Magazine article
  1. Escravana, Nelson. "Cibersegurança na Internacionalização das Empresas", BOW - Portugal Business on the Way, 2022, https://www.aeportugal.com/files/MKT/BOW25_NelsonEscravana.pdf.
Report
  1. Escravana, Nelson. 2016. NATO/NIAG SG-206 - Cyber Defense Situational Awareness.
  2. Escravana, Nelson. 2015. NATO/NIAG SG-195 - Cyberdefense information sharing.
  3. Escravana, Nelson. 2014. NATO/NIAG SG-179 - Industrial contribution to cyber defence action plan.
  4. Escravana, Nelson. 2012. NATO/NIAG SG-165 : Private Sector support to NATO cyber defence.

Intellectual property

Patent
  1. Escravana, Nelson; Carlos Ribeiro; João Lima. 2018. "Method and system for detecting intrusions in networks and systems based on business-process specificationWO2014/060964 A2".
    Granted/Issued
  2. Escravana, Nelson; João Lima. 2015. "Sistema e método para produção automática de software vulnerável através da injeção de código vulnerável durante o processo de compilação ou interpretação". Portugal.
    Granted/Issued
Activities

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/05 - Current Cibersegurança para Empresas (Outros) Instituto Superior Técnico - Técnico +, Portugal

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2019 - Current Proteção e Segurança de Dados para Profissionais Não Tecnológicos Cibersegurança - Avaliação e Gestão de Segurança (Especialização pós-licenciatura) Instituto Superior Técnico - Técnico +, Portugal