Talk: Erik Rye "Building Haystacks to Find Needles"
Monday, April 21, 2025 · 12 - 1 PM
Abstract: The Internet is a big place, comprising billions of users and tens of billions of network devices. Discovering and remediating vulnerabilities in these devices is an imperative for a more secure Internet. Unfortunately, vulnerabilities that affect millions of hosts represent only a small fraction of the overall Internet. Finding these "needles" at Internet scale requires collecting an exponentially larger "haystack."
Short Speaker Bio: Erik Rye is a final-year PhD candidate at the University of Maryland, where he focuses on solving large-scale network security and privacy problems. He regularly publishes in venues like ACM SIGCOMM and IEEE Security & Privacy; he has shared his work at industry conventions like Black Hat USA and in popular media like Krebs on Security. Erik contributes to the network security and measurement communities by running the IPv6 Observatory, which publishes weekly insights into the state of the Internet. He holds masters degrees in computer science and applied mathematics from the Naval Postgraduate School, and also likes dogs.
