I'm an Assistant Professor of Computer
Science at Stanford University. My
research brings a large-scale, empirical approach to the study of Internet
security, trust, and safety. I build systems to measure complex networked
ecosystems, which I use to understand real-world behavior, uncover weaknesses
and attacks, architect and deploy more resilient approaches, and guide public
policy. I also founded and am Chief Scientist of Censys.
Advising and Teaching
I lead the Stanford Empirical Security Research Group where
I advise:
Hans Hanley,
Catherine Han,
Kimberly Ruth,
Agur Adams
(co-advised with Phil Levis),
Rumaisa Habib,
Thea Rossman,
and
Veronica Rivera. Alumni include:
Liz Izhikevich,
Gerry Wan,
Deepak Kumar,
Gautam Akiwate,
Aurore Fass,
Dolière Francis Somé,
Fengchen Gong,
George Hosono,
Manda Tran, and
Jack Cable.
I teach
CS155 Computer and Network Security (2019–2025),
CS356 Topics in Systems and Network Security (2018–2024), and
CS249i The Modern Internet (2021–2025).
Open Source Software and Data
My work emphasizes creating open source tools and datasets for understanding
and protecting the Internet. My team built and maintains the ZMap Toolkit (e.g., ZMap, ZGrab, ZDNS, ZLint, and LZR) and Retina, which are used
across the security industry. I architected the Censys measurement platform, which provides researchers with free global
data on Internet devices and services. In addition, I maintain ASdb and the downloadable CrUX Top Million
Websites.
Select Publications
- Catherine Han, Anne Li, Deepak Kumar, and Zakir Durumeric
- Preprint
- Liz Izhikevich, Manda Tran, Katherine Izhikevich, Gautam Akiwate, and Zakir Durumeric
- ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE, June 2024
- Hans Hanley, Deepak Kumar, and Zakir Durumeric
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("Oakland"), May 2024
- Catherine Han, Joseph Seering, Deepak Kumar, Jeff Hancock, and Zakir Durumeric
- ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW), October 2023
- Best Paper Award
- Kimberly Ruth, Aurore Fass, Jonathan Azose, Mark Pearson, Emma Thomas, Caitlin Sadowski, and Zakir Durumeric
- ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2022
- Gerry Wan, Fengchen Gong, Tom Barbette, and Zakir Durumeric
- ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), August 2022
- Liz Izhikevich, Renata Teixeira, and Zakir Durumeric
- USENIX Security Symposium, August 2021
- Kurt Thomas, Devdatta Akhawe, Michael Bailey, Elie Bursztein, Dan Boneh, Sunny Consolvo,
Nicki Dell, Zakir Durumeric, Patrick Gage Kelley, Deepak Kumar, Damon McCoy,
Sarah Meiklejohn, Thomas Ristenpart, and Gianluca Stringhini
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("Oakland"), May 2021
- Josh Aas, Richard Barnes, Benton Case, Zakir Durumeric, Peter Eckersley, Alan Flores-Lopez,
- J. Alex Halderman, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, James Kasten, Eric Rescorla, Seth Schoen, Brad Warren
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2019
- Manos Antonakakis, Tim April, Michael Bailey, Matt Bernhard, Elie Bursztein, Jaime Cochran
- Zakir Durumeric, J. Alex Halderman, Luca Invernizzi, Michalis Kallitsis, Deepak Kumar, Chaz Lever,
- Zane Ma, Joshua Mason, Damian Menscher, Chad Seaman, Nick Sullivan, Kurt Thomas, Yi Zhou
- USENIX Security Symposium, August 2017
- Zakir Durumeric, David Adrian, Ariana Mirian, James Kasten, Kurt Thomas, Vijay Eranti,
- Nicholas Lidzborski, Elie Bursztein, Michael Bailey, and J. Alex Halderman
- ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2015
- IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP)
- David Adrian, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Zakir Durumeric, Pierrick Gaudry, Matthew Green,
- J. Alex Halderman, Nadia Heninger, Drew Springall, Emmanuel Thomé, Luke Valenta,
- Benjamin VanderSloot, Eric Wustrow, Santiago Zanella-Beguelin, and Paul Zimmermann
- ACM Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2015
- Best Paper Award
- Zakir Durumeric, Frank Li, James Kasten, Johanna Amann, Jethro Beekman, Mathias Payer,
- Nicolas Weaver, David Adrian, Vern Paxson, Michael Bailey, and J. Alex Halderman
- ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), November 2014
- Best Paper Award
- Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, and J. Alex Halderman
- USENIX Security Symposium, August 2013
- Nadia Heninger, Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, and J. Alex Halderman
- USENIX Security Symposium, August 2012
- Best Paper Award; Test of Time Award (2022)