About me
I am a PhD candidate at the Security Group of Eindhoven University of Technology.
My research aims to develop an effective descision support system for SOC analysts.
As decision support systems are used by humans instead of machines, my research focuses on SOC analysts and their workflow, and how analysts interact with systems designed to aid their analysis process.
I am under the supervision of dr. Luca Allodi.
Publications
All my publications are listed below in the order of recency.
| Year | Publication |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Leon Kersten, Kim Beelen, Emmanuele Zambon, Chris Snijders, and Luca Allodi., A Field Study to Uncover and a Tool to Support the Alert Investigation Process of Tier-1 Analysts Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) 2025, 24 February 2025, San Diego, CA, USA, doi: 10.14722/usec.2025.23034 (LINK) |
| 2025 | Adriana Radu, Leon Kersten, Rick Wosyka, Tom Mulders, Emmanuele Zambon, and Luca Allodi., A Test Tool to Evaluate the Skill Sets of Tier-1 Security Analysts in a SOC Environment: A Case Study from Recruitment to Operations Workshop on Security Operation Center Operations and Construction (WOSOC) 2025, 24 February 2025, San Diego, CA, USA, doi: 10.14722/wosoc.2025.23001 (LINK) |
| 2024 | Leon Kersten, Santiago Darré, Tom Mulders, Emmanuele Zambon, Marco Caselli, Chris Snijders and Luca Allodi., A Security Alert Investigation Tool Supporting Tier 1 Analysts in Contextualizing and Understanding Network Security Events. 2024 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Honolulu, HI, USA, 2024, pp. 890-905, doi: 10.1109/ACSAC63791.2024.00076. (LINK) |
| 2023 | Leon Kersten, Tom Mulders, Emmanuele Zambon, Chris Snijders, and Luca Allodi., 'Give me structure ': synthesis and evaluation of a (network) threat analysis process supporting tier 1 investigations in a security operation center. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth USENIX Conference on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '23). USENIX Association, USA, Article 6, 97–111 (LINK) |
| 2022 | L. Kersten, P. Burda, L. Allodi and N. Zannone, Investigating the Effect of Phishing Believability on Phishing Reporting, 2022 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), pp. 117-128 (LINK) |
Contact
Email: l.kersten.1@tue.nl
Office: MF 6.111, P.O. Box 513,
5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands