Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, UNamur, Belgium, 2025
  • Title: ASGARD: An Abstract Model for Adaptive Self-guarded honeypots
  • Suppervised by Prof. Jean-Noël Colin
• Master of research in Computer Science, INSA-Lyon, France, 2006
• Exchange student, Department of Computer Science, INSA-Lyon, France, 2002-2003
• Engineer in Computer Science, ITC, Cambodia, 2003

Professional certificates

• Certified ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Foundation, October 2026

Work experience

• Oct. 2024 - Oct. 2025: Postdoctoral researcher
  • Faculty of Computer Science / University of Namur
  • Topic: Industrialize adaptive self-guarded honeypots
  • Released software:
    • Asgard honeypot system
    • Command Risk Assessment
  • Docker Images:
    • Asgard honeypot system
    • Command Risk Assessment
  • Publications:
    • Touch, S., Colin, JN. (2026). An Adaptive Self-guarded and Risk-Aware Honeypot Using DRL. In: Laborde, R., et al. Computer Security. ESORICS 2025 International Workshops. ESORICS 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16232. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-16092-8_11
    • Touch, S., Fink, J., Colin, JN. (2025). Automated Risk Assessment of Shell-Based Attacks Using a LLM. In: Collart-Dutilleul, S., Ouchani, S., Cuppens, N., Cuppens, F. (eds) Risks and Security of Internet and Systems. CRiSIS 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15456. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-89350-6_11
• Sept. 2017 - Sept. 2024: Teaching assistant / PhD student
  • Faculty of Computer Science / University of Namur
  • Responsibilities:
    • Practical sessions for following courses:
      • Information security: design CTF-based exercises focusing on different types of vulnerabilities and exploits: steganography, network, crytography, pen testing, web attack & defense.
      • Operating systems: Linux system programming in C language (IPC)
      • Web technologies
      • Programming assigment
      • Information system: methods and technology
    • Network and system administration
      • Maintain hyper-visors servers
      • pfSense firewall
      • OpenVPN
      • Systems: Linux-based VMs, Gitlab, OAuth
• Oct. 2014 - Aug. 2017: Development manager
  • Responsibilities:
    • Served as project manager, overseeing planning and execution.
    • Led a development team in maintaining and developing mobile and web applications.
  • Technologies Used:
    • Frontend: EmberJS, AngularJS, jQuery, HTML5, CSS3
    • Backend: PHP (Laravel 5), WebSocket, Ruby, Node.js, Erlang, RabbitMQ, gRPC, MySQL, Redis, Docker

• Aug. 2011 - Sept. 2014: Director of an IT department

• Aug. 2007 - Aug. 2008: Manager of Information Technology school at NGO Pour un Sourire d’Enfant (PSE)

Teaching experience

From 2003 until 2017, I delivered lectures to engineering students in Computer Science at ITC, Cambodia on a variety of subjects, including but not limited to:

• Introduction to AI
• Operating Systems
• Algorithms and Programming
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Computer Architecture
• System Analysis and Design
• System Programming on Linux
• C Language
• XML

Skills

• Security tools: Nmap, Metasploit, Wireshark, Cowrie
• Risk management and analysis: EBIOS Risk Manager, MITRE ATT&CK, CIS Controls, NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27002
• Network and system administration: Linux, Proxmox, pfSense firewall, Samba, OpenLDAP
• Operating systems: Linux (CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Raspberry Pi OS), macOS, Windows
• Log analytics: Elastic Stack
• Programming languages: C, Python, PHP, Ruby, Java
• Scripting languages: bash and perl
• ML technologies:
  • Numpy
  • PyTorch
  • Hugging Face Transformers
  • scikit-learn
  • Gymnasium (reinforcement learning)
• Software development and deployment tools: Docker, Git
• Web technologies:
  • REST API
  • Python: Flask and FastAPI
  • React
  • EmberJS
  • Laravel PHP
  • CakePHP
• Web server: Nginx, Apache, node.js and gunicorn
• Cloud platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Vultr
• Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, CouchDB, Redis
• Messaging technologies: MQTT, RabbitMQ (AMQP)
• Web semantic ontology: XML Schema RDF(S) / OWL / SPARQL

Recent Publications

An Adaptive Self-guarded and Risk-Aware Honeypot using DRL

Touch, S., Colin, JN. (2026). An Adaptive Self-guarded and Risk-Aware Honeypot Using DRL. In: Laborde, R., et al. Computer Security. ESORICS 2025 International Workshops. ESORICS 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16232. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-16092-8_11

Automated Risk Assessment of Shell-Based Attacks Using a LLM

Touch, S., Fink, J., Colin, JN. (2025). Automated Risk Assessment of Shell-Based Attacks Using a LLM. In: Collart-Dutilleul, S., Ouchani, S., Cuppens, N., Cuppens, F. (eds) Risks and Security of Internet and Systems. CRiSIS 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15456. Springer, Cham.

A Comparison of an Adaptive Self-Guarded Honeypot with Conventional Honeypots

Touch, S., & Colin, J. N. (2022). A comparison of an adaptive self-guarded honeypot with conventional honeypots. Applied Sciences, 12(10), 5224.

Asguard: Adaptive Self-guarded Honeypot

Touch, S., & COLIN, J. N. (2021, October). Asguard: Adaptive Self-guarded Honeypot. In 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies-Volume 1: DMMLACS, (pp. 565-574). SciTePress. https://doi.org/10.5220/0010719100003058

Talks

An Adaptive Self-guarded and Risk-Aware Honeypot using DRL

September 25, 2025

Conference proceedings talk at ESORICS 2025 International Workshops, Toulouse, France 25-26th September 2025, Toulouse, FRANCE

Automated Risk Assessment of Shell-Based Attacks Using a LLM

November 26, 2024

Conference proceedings talk at 19th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems, TheCamp, Aix-en-Provence, FRANCE

Gestion de la confiance dans un environnement IoT pour des infrastructures essentielles

May 06, 2024

Talk at Ecole d'été 2024, Cybersécurité , Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

An Adaptive Self-guarded honeypot

March 17, 2023

Seminar at CyberExcellence Seminar, Online, Belgium

Asguard: Adaptive Self-guarded Honeypot

October 26, 2021

Conference proceedings talk at Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2021), Valletta, Malta (Online)