Welcome to the DNet GT Lab

We are a dynamic research group at the Group T Leuven Campus.

IDEAS is the Distrinet applied research unit, incepted by Prof. Bert Lagaisse at Group T, on intelligent and distributed e-application security. The research focusses on intelligent solutions for both the technical problems as well as people problems in secure software engineering of web-based applications. In many application domains, development teams of software-intensive systems struggle to deliver secure software on time. Considering the many security issues reported every day, and considering the lack of personnel at many software development companies, applied research must address important key system architectures that suffer the most of this lack of security-awareness.

In summary, IDEAS’ research envisions secure and agile development platforms and methodologies that includes

• Early visualization of developer mistakes and bugs with a focus on vulnerabilities in application-level security
• ML-based analytics of software engineering processes and artifacts
• Gamification and incentivization of security in software engineering
• Usable security concepts and security middleware for application developers

The research is experimenting and validating in the following key system architectures:

• Cloud applications, including multi-tenant web APIs, and micro-service architectures,
• Client-centric web platforms such as the decentralized web Solid and progressive web apps,
• Web-connected, distributed, and embedded software for IoT solutions.