The Security Grand Challenge is organized by Anup Ghosh, Giovanni Vigna, and Nicholas Weaver.
To contact the challenge organizers please send an email to grand-challenge@cs.ucsb.edu.
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Anup K. Ghosh is Research Professor and Chief Scientist in the Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS) at George Mason University. Dr. Ghosh was previously Senior Scientist and Program Manager in the Advanced Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he managed an extensive portfolio of information assurance and information operations programs. Ghosh is founder of Secure Command, LLC, a software security company. |
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Giovanni Vigna is an Associate Professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research interests include web security, intrusion detection and correlation, vulnerability assessment, and malware analysis. Every year, he organizes and runs an inter-university Capture The Flag hacking context, which is the largest live security competition in the world, involving dozens of institutions around the globe. |
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Nicholas Weaver is a researcher in computer security at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. His research includes worms and global malcode, high performance intrusion detection, and network monitoring. |


