Thibault Debatty

Professor

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Thibault Debatty leads the Cyber Defence Lab of the Royal Military Academy (RMA). He is also associate professor and teaches the courses “Introduction to networks and security”, “Advanced network security” and “Computer forensics”. He is president of the jury for the Master of Science in Cybersecurity organized by Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), RMA and four other institutions.

He is a member of various working groups and committees like:

• European Defence Agency CapTech CYBER
• NATO IST Panel Research Task Group IST-163-RTG Deep Machine Learning for Cyber Defense
• the Academic Review Committee of the CCDCOE Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon)
• the Academic Review Committee of the International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems (ICMCIS)

Thibault received his master’s degree in applied engineering sciences from the Royal Military Academy, then a master’s degree in applied computer sciences from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). Finally, he obtained a Ph.D. with a focus on distributed computing from both Telecom Paris and RMA.

Blog

Thibault Debatty has published 213 blog posts on this website. Favorite topics include News | 38 Sysadmin | 38 PHP | 30 Laravel | 29 Linux | 23

• Install TP-Link Omada WiFi Controller on Ubuntu
  May 16, 2025 | 411 views
• Ceph distributed storage (part 2) : file storage performance
  Apr 22, 2025 | 447 views
• DELL Servers Generations Cheatsheet
  Mar 28, 2025 | 464 views
• Ceph distributed storage (part 1) : installation
  Mar 21, 2025 | 879 views
• Cyber Security Challenge Belgium 2025 : Qualifiers
  Mar 20, 2025 | 665 views
• Out-of-band server management : DELL iDRAC
  Mar 10, 2025 | 551 views
• Install Windows on a USB drive
  Feb 7, 2025 | 816 views
• Integrate a Large Language Model (LLM) in your PHP application
  Jan 31, 2025 | 1719 views
• Data deduplication
  Jan 22, 2025 | 991 views
• 2024 in numbers
  Jan 17, 2025 | 691 views

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Projects

• DAP/22-E01 : Development of an intrusive Linux capacity
• DAP/20-01 : Security issues related to SS7 and Diameter
• DAP/24-05 : Multi-agent System For Advanced Persistent Threat Detection
• F-REC : Facial RECognition Prevention
• SOLACE : SOftware suppLy chain Attack and defenCE
• DAP/22-02 : AI4Cyber
• DAP/22-03 : Using blockchain to secure the software supply chain

Publications

• Dataset of APT Persistence Techniques on Windows Platforms Mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
  Khaled Rahal, Arbia Riahi and Thibault Debatty
  28th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks
  2025
• Pseudonymisation of SS7 Identifiers by Random Tables
  Charles Beumier and Thibault Debatty
  2024
• A decentralized architecture for package manager based on the blockchain
  Arnaud Stoz and Thibault Debatty
  Digital Transformation, Cybersecurity, And Resilience DIGILIENCE 2024
  2024
• Adv-Bot: Realistic Adversarial Botnet Attacks against Network Intrusion Detection Systems
  Islam Debicha, Benjamin Cochez, Tayeb Kenaza, Thibault Debatty, Jean-Michel Dricot and Wim Mees
  2023
• Security Issues related to SS7
  Charles Beumier and Thibault Debatty
  2023
• TAD: Transfer learning-based multi-adversarial detection of evasion attacks against network intrusion detection systems
  Islam Debicha, Richard Bauwens, Thibault Debatty, Jean-Michel Dricot, Tayeb Kenaza and Wim Mees
  2022

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