Taous Leila Madi

About

Dr. Taous Madi is a Research Scientist at KAUST. Previously, she was an Experienced Researcher at Ericsson Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems Engineering from Concordia University, Montreal. 

Her research interests include network function virtualization security, software-defined networking security, internet of things security, cyber threat intelligence, security of 5G and beyond telecommunication platforms, security metrics, machine learning and formal verification. She has co-authored a book and several conference and journal articles at reputable cybersecurity venues.

International Conference Publications

• T. Madi, H. Alameddine, M. Pourzandi, Amine Boukhtouta. AutoGuard: A Dual Intelligence Proactive Anomaly Detection at Application-Level in 5G Networks, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2021), Darmstadt, Germany.

• T. Madi, M. Zhang, Y. Jarraya, A. Alimohammadifar, M. Pourzandi, L. Wang, M. Debbabi: QuantiC: Distance Metrics for Evaluating Multi-Tenancy Threats in Public Cloud, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2018), Nicosia, Cyprus.

• A. Alimohammadifar, S. Majumdar, T. Madi, Y. Jarraya, M. Pourzandi, L. Wang and M. Debbabi. Stealthy Probing-based Verification (SPV): An Active Approach to Defending Software Defined Networks against Topology Poisoning Attacks, European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2018), Barcelona, Spain.

• S. Majumdar, T. Madi, Y. Jarraya, M. Pourzandi, L. Wang, M. Debbabi: Cloud Security Auditing: Major Approaches and Existing Challenges, International Symposium on Foundations & Practice of Security (FPS 2018), Montreal, QC, Canada.

• Y.Wang, T. Madi, S. Majumdar, Y. Jarraya, A. Alimohammadifar, M. Pourzandi, L.Wang and M. Debbabi. TenantGuard: Scalable Runtime Verification of Cloud-Wide VMLevel Network Isolation. In the Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2017), San Diego, USA.

• S. Majumdar, Y. Jarraya, T. Madi, A. Alimohammadifar, M. Pourzandi, L. Wang and M. Debbabi. Proactive Verification of Security Compliance for Clouds through Pre-Computation: Application to OpenStack. In the Proceedings of the 21st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2016), Heraklion, Greece, Sept. 28-30, 2016.

• T. Madi, Y. Jarraya, S. Majumdar, Y. Wang, M. Pourzandi, L. Wang and M. Debbabi. Security Compliance Auditing of Virtualized Infrastructure in the Cloud: Application to OpenStack, ACM conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2016), New Orleans, LA.

• S. Majumdar, T. Madi, Y. Wang, Y. Jarraya, M. Pourzandi, L. Wang and M. Debbabi. Security Compliance Auditing of Identity and Access Management in the Cloud: Application to OpenStack, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2015), Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Refereed Journal Publications

• T. Madi, H. Alameddine, M. Pourzandi and A. Boukhtouta. NFV security survey in 5G networks: A three-dimensional threat taxonomy, Computer Networks, Vol 197, 2021.

• S. Majumdar, G. S. Chawla, A. Alimohammadifar, T. Madi, Y. Jarraya, M. Pourzandi, L. Wang and M. Debbabi. ProSAS: Proactive Security Auditing System for Clouds. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2021.

• Y. Jarraya, T. Madi, and M. Debbabi. A Survey and a Layered Taxonomy on Software- Defined Networking. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Society, vol.PP, no.99.

• S. Majumdar, T. Madi, Y.Wang, Y. Jarraya, M. Pourzandi, L.Wang and M. Debbabi. User- Level Runtime Security Auditing for the Cloud., IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Vol. 13, No. 5, May 2018, pages 1185-1199.

• T. Madi, Y. Jarraya, A. Alimohammadifar, S. Majumdar, Y.Wang, M. Pourzandi, L.Wang, and M. Debbabi. ISOTOP: Auditing Virtual Networks Isolation Across Cloud Layers with Application to OpenStack. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), August 2018.

Books

• S. Majumdar, T. Madi, Y. Wang, A. Tabiban, M. Oqaily, A. Alimohammadifar, Y. Jarraya, M. Pourzandi, L. Wang, M. Debbabi. Cloud Security Auditing. Advances in Information Security 76, Springer 2019, ISBN 978-3-030-23127-9, pp. 1-159.

Education Profile

PhD., Information systems and engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, 2019.

Msc. and Bsc., Software Engineering, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumedien, Algiers, 2010.