About
Giovanni Vigna is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California in Santa Barbara. His current research interests include malware analysis, web security, vulnerability assessment, and mobile phone security. He also edited a book on Security and Mobile Agents and authored one on Intrusion Correlation. He has been the Program Chair of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID 2003), of the ISOC Symposium on Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS 2009), and of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in 2011. He is known for organizing and running an inter-university Capture The Flag hacking contest, called iCTF, that every year involves dozens of institutions around the world. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
Designing and implementing inter-client communication in theO2object-oriented database management system
Year: 1994
Citations: 6
Venue: International Symposium on Object-Oriented Methodologies and Systems
Latest Recorded Paper
A Large-Scale Measurement Study of the PROXY Protocol and its Security Implications
Year: 2025
Citations: 0
Venue: 2025 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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