Saskia Laura Schröer

Saskia Laura Schröer holds a PhD with a specialization in Information Systems and an MSc focusing on data science. Saskia is certified in CCNP Enterprise and is a DevNet Associate, a WiCyS speaker, and a Cisco Live speaker. Saskia is a security consulting engineer in Cisco's EMEA Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence with almost 10 years of experience in consulting, IT audit, network engineering, and security. Her focus lies on the technical and organizational aspects of cybersecurity, across various sectors. In her PhD, supervised by Prof. Pavel Laskov, Saskia has developed a core expertise at the intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, which she is leveraging to drive innovation at Cisco.

Publications:

• Cisco Live Speaker: BRKXAR-1009: Exploring the Paradigm Shift in Security: AI and Post-Quantum's Influence on Zero Trust (2026)
• Schroer, S. L., Apruzzese, G., Human, S., Laskov, P., Anderson, H. S., Bernroider, E. W., & Wang, G. (2025, April). "SoK: On the Offensive Potential of AI." In 2025 IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML) (pp. 247–280). IEEE.
• Schroer, S. L., Pajola, L., Castagnaro, A., Apruzzese, G., & Conti, M. (2025). "Exploiting AI for Attacks: On the Interplay Between Adversarial AI and Offensive AI." IEEE Intelligent Systems.
• Schroer, S. L., Canevascini, N., Pekaric, I., Widmer, P., & Laskov, P. (2025, June). "The Dark Side of the Web: Towards Understanding Various Data Sources in Cyber Threat Intelligence." In 2025 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW) (pp. 79–89). IEEE.
• Schroer, S. L., Seideman, J. D., Luo, S., Apruzzese, G., Dietrich, S., & Laskov, P. (2025). "Using a Stack to Find an AI Needle: Topic Modeling for Cyber Threat Intelligence." Digital Threats: Research and Practice.
• Weinz, M., Schroer, S. L., & Apruzzese, G. (2024, September). "'Hey Google, Remind Me to Be Phished': Exploiting the Notifications of the Google (AI) Assistant on Android for Social Engineering Attacks." In 2024 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime) (pp. 109–122). IEEE.