Zakir Durumeric
Assistant Professor
Stanford Computer Science
zakir@cs.stanford.edu
Gates 432 | (650) 724-6279
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I'm an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and Chief Scientist of Censys. My research brings a large-scale, empirical approach to the study of security, abuse, and misinformation on the Internet. I build systems to measure complex networked ecosystems, and I use the resulting perspective to understand real-world behavior, uncover weaknesses, architect more resilient approaches, and guide policy decisions.
Students and Teaching
I lead the Stanford Empirical Security Research Group where I advise several Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars: Liz Izhikevich, Gerry Wan, Kimberly Ruth, Hans Hanley, Catherine Han, Agur Adams (co-advised with Phil Levis), Deepak Kumar, and Gautam Akiwate.
I teach CS155 Computer and Network Security (2019–2023), CS356 Topics in Systems and Network Security (2018–2022), and CS249i The Modern Internet (2021–2023).
Select Publications
A World Wide View of Browsing the World Wide Web
- Kimberly Ruth, Aurore Fass, Jonathan Azose, Mark Pearson, Emma Thomas, Caitlin Sadowski, and Zakir Durumeric
- ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2022
Retina: Analyzing 100 GbE Traffic on Commodity Hardware
- Gerry Wan, Fengchen Gong, Tom Barbette, and Zakir Durumeric
- ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication (SIGCOMM), August 2022
LZR: Identifying Unexpected Internet Services
- Liz Izhikevich, Renata Teixeira, and Zakir Durumeric
- USENIX Security Symposium, August 2021
SoK: Hate, Harassment, and the Changing Landscape of Online Abuse
- 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
Let's Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web
- 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
Understanding the Mirai Botnet
- 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
Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor MITM... An Empirical Analysis of Email Delivery Security
- 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
- IETF Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP)
Imperfect Forward Secrecy: How Diffie-Hellman Fails in Practice
- 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
The Matter of Heartbleed
- 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
ZMap: Fast Internet-Wide Scanning and its Security Applications
- Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, and J. Alex Halderman
- USENIX Security Symposium, August 2013
Mining Your Ps and Qs: Detection of Widespread Weak Keys in Network Devices
- Nadia Heninger, Zakir Durumeric, Eric Wustrow, and J. Alex Halderman
- USENIX Security Symposium, August 2012
- Best Paper Award; Test of Time Award (2022)