Nick Sullivan

Nick Sullivan

Head of Research

Biography

Nick Sullivan is Head of Research at Cloudflare. Nick leads research efforts in the fields of security and privacy, cryptography, Internet measurement, and emerging networking paradigms. Prior to working at Cloudflare, he developed encryption technology for Apple’s Internet Services division, co-wrote Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report, and completed degrees in both Computer Science and Pure Mathematics. He is passionate about improving the Internet through cutting-edge research and the development of open standards.

Research Areas

Cryptography, Internet Measurement, Privacy, Security

publication
2017

Understanding the mirai botnet

Manos Antonakakis, Tim April, Michael Bailey, Matt Bernhard, Elie Bursztein, Jaime Cochran, Zakir Durumeric, Luca Invernizzi, Michalis Kallitsis, Deepak Kumar, Chaz Lever, Zane Ma, Joshua Mason, Damian Menscher, Chad Seaman, Nick Sullivan, Kurt Thomas, Yi Zhou
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