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Software/Network Engineer for the Action Institute through the Secure Computing Group (aka SecLab) at UCSB. Part-time lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at Westmont College and occasional contractor. Master of Science in Software Engineering from California State University, Fullerton.

While working at UCSB, I have had the chance to work on significant projects with remarkable individuals.

Projects

Teaching and Mentoring

I am passionate about learning, teaching, and mentoring. My experience ranges from teaching introductory programming courses at the DREAMLAB, to mentoring undergraduate teams through research in the UCSB ERSP program (22-23, 23-24). I developed the materials for an upper-division course on Programming Languages that I have taught at Westmont College. The small class size enabled me to create and foster an engaged learning environment in the classroom. This past summer I helped to lead the inaugural summer mentor program for the Action Institute that brought students from around the country, and led a team of undergraduates to develop cyber-security skills within a cloud-based cyber-range.

Recent Publications

Container Orchestration Honeypot: Observing Attacks in the Wild

Noah Spahn, Nils Hanke, Thorsten Holz, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 23) (RAID '23), October 19, 2023

POPKORN: Popping Windows Kernel Drivers At Scale

Rajat Gupta, Lukas Patrick Dresel, Noah Spahn, Giovanni Vigna, Christopher Kruegel, Taesoo Kim
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, December 05, 2022

DeepCASE: Semi-Supervised Contextual Analysis of Security Events

Thijs van Ede, Hojjat Aghakhani, Noah Spahn, Riccardo Bortolameotti, Marco Cova, Andrea Continella, Maarten van Steen, Andreas Peter, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), August 14, 2022

Regulator: Dynamic Analysis to Detect ReDoS

Robert McLaughlin, Fabio Pagani, Noah Spahn, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), August 14, 2022

DIANE: Identifying Fuzzing Triggers in Apps to Generate Under-constrained Inputs for IoT Devices

Nilo Redini, Andrea Continella, Dipanjan Das, Giulio De Pasquale, Noah Spahn, Aravind Machiry, Antonio Bianchi, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna
In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P), May 14, 2021

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