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CAREER: Comprehensively Understanding and Securing the Edge of the Internet — NSF Award to Stanford University (CA, $352,406)

This project focuses on developing the next generation of network scanning tools and methodologies for more efficiently finding all Internet devices and software, safely uncovering vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in them, and identifying device owners so that they can be notified before they are attacked. This pr

Award titleCAREER: Comprehensively Understanding and Securing the Edge of the Internet
Award ID2540803
AwardeeStanford University
CitySTANFORD
StateCA
Amount obligated$352,406
Principal investigatorZakir Durumeric
ProgramNetworking Technology and Syst
Start date05/01/2026
AbstractThis project focuses on developing the next generation of network scanning tools and methodologies for more efficiently finding all Internet devices and software, safely uncovering vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in them, and identifying device owners so that they can be notified before they are attacked. This project will introduce fundamentally new methodologies in three areas. First, drawing on advances in artificial intelligence and software fuzzing, the project will build new techniqu
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