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Kokthay Peong

Cybersecurity Researcher, Distributed Systems Security, Network and Infrastructure Engineer

About

About Me

Cybersecurity & Distributed Systems Security Researcher

I’m a PhD Researcher in Cybersecurity at the University of Namur, Belgium, specializing in network security, QUIC traffic analysis, eBPF-based monitoring, and distributed systems security. My research focuses on building real-time provenance and Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT) to detect lateral movement attacks across distributed system environments. I also have hands-on experience in network and infrastructure engineering. My work bridges theory and practice, combining deep protocol-level analysis with practical system and network design and implementation.

Name: Kokthay Poeng
Degree: PhD Researcher (in progress)

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Education & Expericence

My Education

PhD In Computer Science

University of Namur | 2023 - Now

Master In Computer Science

Institute of Technology of Cambodia | 2021 - 2022

Computer Science Engineer

Institute of Technology of Cambodia | 2016 - 2021

My Expericence

Research Assistant

University of Namur | 2023 - Now

Network & Infrastructure Engineer

Insititue of Technology of Cambodia | 2021 - 2023

Master Research Intern

University of Namur | 2022

Papers

Publications

Cross-Host Lateral Movement Detection with QUIC-Aware Dynamic Information Flow Tracking

Kokthay Poeng and Laurent Schumacher

11th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), Lisbon, Portugal, 2026, pp. 1–17.

Conference Paper Accepted EuroS&P 2026
DirectQUIC: Transparent QUIC Reverse Proxy

Kokthay Poeng, Laurent Schumacher and Dararith Khun

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2026 Conference (NETWORKING 2026), Lugano, Switzerland, 2026.

Conference Paper Published NETWORKING 2026
QUIC Traffic Identification in Kernel Space

Kokthay Poeng, Laurent Schumacher and Sereysethy Touch

2025 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), Paris, France, 2025, pp. 1–8.

DOI: 10.1109/ISNCC66965.2025.11250416

Conference Paper Published ISNCC 2025
Lateral Movement Identification in Cross-Cloud Deployment

Kokthay Poeng and Laurent Schumacher

2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), Prague, Czech Republic, 2024, pp. 1–4.

DOI: 10.23919/CNSM62983.2024.10814442

Conference Paper Published CNSM 2024

Service

My Services

Artifact Committee, ACM CoNEXT ’26

Artifact Evaluation Committee member for the 22nd International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies 2026 (ACM CoNEXT ’26).

Shadow Program Committee, ACM IMC ’26

Shadow Program Committee member for the 26th ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2026 (ACM IMC ’26).

Shadow Program Committee, AlgoTel–CoRes ’26

Shadow Program Committee member for the joint AlgoTel 2026 and CoRes 2026 francophone conferences on telecommunications and communication networks.

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