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Nikolaos Kekatos

Publications 14

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Formal Runtime Verification for Tool-Using LLM Agents: An Offline Same-Benchmark Study on AgentDojo and STAC

Nikolaos Kekatos, Stylianos Basagiannis, Marinelio Chintri et al. · 2026 · 10.1145/3847353.3847499

Guardrails for tool-using LLM agents are usually application-specific rules, which makes multi-step, data-dependent safety policies hard to specify, audit and reuse. As a declarative alternative, we evaluate metric first-order temporal logic (MFOTL), replaying the recorded trajectories that AgentDojo, STAC and R-Judge …

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Hybrid Hierarchical Runtime Verification for Edge-IoT Security: Combining MonPoly and RTLola

Nikolaos Kekatos, Marinelio Chintri, Panagiotis Katsaros et al. · 2026 · 10.1007/978-3-032-37218-5_14

Security monitoring of edge-IoT fleets faces three structural challenges. (i) A per-node monitor is cheap but cannot see attacks that coordinate across devices. (ii) A cloud monitor sees the full fleet but pays for that view in bandwidth. (iii) Even at the cloud, a monitor built on a single RV engine can be fooled by a …

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CYBERFORT: A Compliance-Chain Platform Operationalising the Cyber Resilience Act for SMEs

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) turns product cybersecurity into a lifecycle compliance obligation for manufacturers, importers, distributors, and integrators of products with digital elements on the EU market, a load that falls largely on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that rarely have dedicated governanc …

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The Amplifier Effect: Human-Factor Risks of AI-Suggested Correlation and Auto-Propagation in Multi-Framework GRC Self-Assessment

Multi-framework Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platforms increasingly automate the link between an organisation's self-assessment answer and the compliance obligations that answer is said to satisfy. Cross-framework control mapping, AI-suggested question correlation, and automatic propagation of answers and evid …

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Preparing an AI-Augmented SIEM for the EU Cyber Resilience Act: A Practitioner Case Study

The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), Regulation (EU) 2024/2847, makes product cybersecurity a lifecycle obligation for products with digital elements on the EU market: risk assessment, vulnerability handling, conformity documentation, and Article 14 incident- and vulnerability-reporting readiness must be operational befo …

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Mission-Aware Attestation Envelopes for Time-Critical Autonomous Action: A Hardware-in-the-Loop V2I Study

An autonomous system that asks for a privileged physical action is usually gated on integrity evidence: a platform proves what it is running, and the request is granted or refused on that basis. Such a gate is normally treated as a predicate, yet the evidence behind it has an age, the decision that consumes it has a la …

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Explainable Rule Mining of IPv6 Extension-Header Presence Patterns from Paired-Vantage Captures

IPv6 extension headers (EHs), such as fragmentation, segment routing, and in-situ telemetry, are operationally important yetwidely dropped in transit, and characterising their behaviour from packet captures is a recurring measurement problem. We ask whetheran explainable miner can recover human-readable rules of EH beh …

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Multi-Aspect Runtime Verification for Simulation-Based V&V of LLM-Enabled Autonomous Agents

LLM-based agents are entering decision-support roles in defence staff work, where the obligations they must respect are already written down and binding, and where retraining is not available as a control because models arrive as procured components. What can be placed under engineering control is the interface between …

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A Resilient Runtime-Verification Fabric for Security Monitoring of Critical Edge-IoT Infrastructure

Protecting critical infrastructure increasingly depends on continuously verifying large IoT fleets against formal security specifications at runtime. Yet the runtime-verification (RV) pipelines proposed for this task are typically single-host prototypes whose monitors read a shared log file, with no resilience to the f …

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From Sandbox to Enforcement: Confidence-Qualified Threat Intelligence for Critical Infrastructure

Security operations centres and national incident-response teams defending critical infrastructure collect abundant threat data yet struggle to turn it into actionable intelligence. A malware sandbox produces detailed behavioural evidence, but as a large, unranked report whose confidence is unstated. We present CG-CTI, …

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