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SCHEDULE

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Day 1 – 9th October 2026

Location: J.1.01, The University of Waikato, Hamilton Campus
Registration starts at 9:00 a.m and is open all day.

Time	Event
9:00 a.m – 10:00 a.m	Morning Tea
10:00 a.m – 10:15 a.m	Welcome Message Prof. Paul Kench – Pro Vice Chancellor, STEM, The University of Waikato
10:15 a.m – 10:45 a.m	Opening Keynote: Title-TBD Tom Roberts – Team Lead for Response and Investigations, National Cyber Security Centre
10:45 a.m – 11:15 a.m	Seeing Every Packet: FPGAs & Cybersecurity Dr Norbert Abel – Principal FPGA Engineer, Endace
11:15 a.m – 11:45 a.m	Managing Cybersecurity for a Diverse Product Portfolio Dr. John DiLeo – Application Security Lead, Gallagher Security
11:45 a.m – 12:15 p.m	No Backup for Trust Eion Hall – Chief Information Officer, The University of Waikato
12:15 p.m – 12:45 p.m	Digital Safety and Continuous Assurance Bhojraj Parmar, Andy Prow – Co-CEOs & Co-Founders, Qubit Cyber
1:00 p.m – 2:30 p.m	Networking Lunch – S Block 1st Floor
2:30 p.m – 4:30 p.m	Side Challenge

Day 2 – 10th October 2026

Location: The University of Waikato, Hamilton Campus

Time	Event
8:30 a.m – 9:15 a.m	Registration
9:15 a.m – 9:30 a.m	Official Opening
9:30 a.m – 9:45 a.m	Team Setups
9:45 a.m – 10:00 a.m	Rules and Regulations Guide
10:00 a.m – 11:30 a.m	Round 1 – R Block Labs
11:30 a.m – 12:30 p.m	Lunch – S Block 1st Floor
12:30 p.m – 12:45 p.m	Team Setup
1:00 p.m – 4:30 p.m	Round 2 – R Block Labs
5:00 p.m – 6:00 p.m	Prize Giving and Wrap-up

The Waikato Cyber Security Research Group (CROW)

What we do

Cyber security (or simply systems security) is the practice of protecting systems, networks, and data from digital attacks, unauthorised access, damage, or theft. It involves implementing technologies, processes, and controls to secure access to information and services, ensuring its confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Cyber security is cross-sectional to computer science, ranging from hardware security to social engineering techniques.

Our group, Cybersecurity Researchers of Waikato (CROW), tackles pressing research problems and covers some of the most relevant areas in Cybersecurity, such as (alphabetical order):

Research areas

Applied cryptography
Honeypots, IDSes, and active sensing for attack characterisation
Cyber deception
Data provenance and sovereignty
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack and mitigation
Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) Security
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Security
Internet measurements and experimentation
Internet scanning and network security assessment
Machine Learning Approaches for Cybersecurity
Malware Analysis and Detection, including Ransomware
Privacy in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)
Routing security
Software-defined networks (programmable data planes) for Network Security

Papers and courses

The key research group personnel is four faculty with expertise on the topics previously, complemented by a strong team of Research Programmers, PhD students, Master of Cybersecurity (MCS) students, and Honours students.

Our team expertise supports a range of cyber security papers/courses at all levels, including:

Our infrastructure

The infrastructure of our research group includes a spacious lab space regularly attended by the team, a powerful server to crunch large datasets (e.g. network traces and system logs), and a cluster of 40+ Internet-facing machines that we use for experimentation and measurements, including in demonstrations and practical work part of our lectures.

Community and partnerships

Since 2014, we have organised the NZ Cybersecurity Challenge, helping to spark interest in Cybersecurity in young students as well as provide a forum for the discussion of cybersecurity trends in NZ. It has attracted a large number of students every year, of all levels, industry participants, and sponsors, which help us grant awards for the winners.

Together with New Zealand industry partners, multi-national companies and international consortia, we work on discovering and disclosing vulnerabilities that expose user data to dangers in both systems and networks.

Our people

Associate Professor Marinho Barcellos
Senior Lecturer, Programme Lead Computer Science

Since October 2019 I have been with the University of Waikato. In the past, I worked at INF/UFRGS Federal University (Associate Professor, 2010–2019), UNISINOS University (Adjunct Professor, 1993–2008), PUC-RS University (2008–2009), as well as an Invited Adjunct Professor at UNAL, Colombia.

I have regularly contributed to the network research community by serving in multiple committees. I was the general co-chair of ACM SIGCOMM 2016 and have been serving as Program Committee co-chair of ACM CoNEXT 2022. I have contributed as a member of several Technical Program Committees of conferences: ACM CoNEXT, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICNP, ACM HotNets, ACM IMC, IFIP Networking, etc. I was a member of the ACM SIGCOMM Executive Committee 2017-2021, and have been a co-chair of the ACM SIGCOMM CARES committee. I also contributed as a member of the steering committees of ACM CoNEXT and the PAM conference, and chairing the Advisory Board of the ACM PACM-NET journal.

I am fortunate to have supervised many bright students (and hope some new ones look for me in the future). Contact me if you are interested, but to be sure I am a good fit for you, please first read my recent papers and be ready to talk about the ones that interested you: it’s a proof-of-work without which you may not get a response :) If you are unaware of my work, I may not respond to your email.

[email protected]

Dr Vimal Kumar
Senior Lecturer

I studied Computer Science & Engineering at IP University in New Delhi before working for a couple of years with Computer Sciences Corporation in India. I moved to Missouri, US in 2008 for further study, where I worked on various problems surrounding secure data aggregation in sensor networks with Prof. Sanjay Madria. I received a PhD in Computer Science from the Missouri University of Science & Technology in 2014. My first academic position was with the University of West Florida in Pensacola after which I moved to University of Waikato in mid 2015, where I have been since, first as a Lecturer and then as a Senior Lecturer from 2020.

+64 7 838 4378
[email protected]

Dr Junaid Haseeb
Lecturer

My research mainly focus on capturing and analysing cyber attacks to understand their behavioural patterns and categorise attackers behind them. This includes working with cyber deception tools (Honeypots) and intrusion detection/prevention systems. I am also interested in applications of machine learning and formal methods.

+6478384403
[email protected]

Dr Farzana Zahid
Lecturer

Dr. Farzana Zahid's research focuses on the security of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Cloud Computing, and AI-enabled systems. Her work focuses on the analysis, design, and development of novel lightweight active security solutions to address sophisticated cyber-attacks and strengthen the security, resilience, and reliability of critical digital infrastructures through innovative and practical cybersecurity approaches. Her research interests also include the security and trustworthiness of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic AI, as well as the application of optimised machine learning techniques to enhance proactive cyber defence.

[email protected]

Students

Pandu Konala, PhD
Atthapan Daramas, PhD
Dimeji Fayomi, PhD
Thye Way Phua, PhD
Ravjot Singh Samra, PhD
Yasir Al Siyabi, PhD
Zijing Zhang, PhD
Mohamed Azeez, MCS
Poonam Dhankhar, MCS
Robinston Fernando, MCS
Kevin Han, MCS
Xiaoye Hua, MCS
Ilija Jankovic, MCS
Daniel McAlpine, MCS
Nitin Nandal, MCS
Bhim Rai, MCS
Brendon Ranum, MCS
Bharath Reddy, MCS
Kiran Sadasivan, MCS
Amith Sankar, MCS
Wenjie Tong, MCS
Peter Wanyonyi, MCS
Chumao Wu, MCS
Logan Cook, Honours

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Publications

2025

Pandu Ranga Reddy Konala, Vimal Kumar, David Bainbridge, Junaid Haseeb. 2025. Metadata Assisted Supply-Chain Attack Detection for Ansible. In Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXIX - DBSec 2025, Katsikas, S., Shafiq, B. (eds.) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15722). Springer, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96590-6_18
Pandu Ranga Reddy Konala, Vimal Kumar, David Bainbridge, Junaid Haseeb. 2026. Tracking Security Smell Diffusion Patterns in Ansible Playbooks Using Metadata. In Advances in Information and Computer Security - IWSEC 2025, Cid, C., Yanai, N. (eds.) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16208). Springer, Singapore. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-4674-9_19
Pandu Ranga Reddy Konala, Vimal Kumar, David Bainbridge, Junaid Haseeb. 2025. A Framework for Measuring the Quality of Infrastructure-as-Code Scripts. CoRR abs/2502.03127, (2025). Retrieved from arxiv.org/abs/2502.03127
Zijing Zhang, Vimal Kumar, Bernhard Pfahringer, Albert Bifet. 2025. AI-Enabled Automated Common Vulnerability Scoring from Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Descriptions. In International Journal of Information Security. doi.org/10.1007/s10207-024-00922-z

2024

Christopher Jun-Wen Chew, Robi Malik, Vimal Kumar, Panos Patros. 2024. Automatic Detection of Android Crypto Ransomware using Supervisor Reduction. In Discrete Events Dynamic Systems. doi.org/10.1007/s10626-024-00406-1
Harpreet Kaur, Vimal Kumar, Atthapan Daramas. 2024. Detecting ransomware using system calls through transfer learning on a limited feature set accepted. In 25th International Web Information Systems Engineering conference - WISE 2024.
Raphael Hiesgen, Marcin Nawrocki, Marinho Barcellos, Daniel Kopp, Oliver Hohlfeld, Echo Chan, Roland Dobbins, Christian Doerr, Christian Rossow, Daniel R. Thomas, Mattijs Jonker, Ricky Mok, Xiapu Luo, John Kristoff, Thomas Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch, KC Claffy. 2024. The Age of DDoScovery: An Empirical Comparison of Industry and Academic DDoS Assessments. In Proceedings of the ACM Internet Measurement Conference - IMC 2024, accepted.
Atthapan Daramas, Vimal Kumar, Marinho Barcellos. 2024. Quantifying Privacy in Cooperative Awareness Services Through Trajectory Reconstruction. In 21st Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust - IEEE PST2024, accepted, pstnet.ca/pst2024/accepted-papers
Christopher Jun-Wen Chew, Vimal Kumar, Panos Patros, and Robi Malik. 2024. Android Crypto Ransomware System Call Dataset. doi.org/10.21227/95Y1-5H19
Vimal Kumar, Juliette Mayo and Khadija Bahiss. 2024. ADMIn: Attacks on Dataset, Model and Input: A Threat Model for AI Based Software. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP, 2024. 10.5220/0012394100003648
Christopher Jun-Wen Chew, Vimal Kumar, Panos Patros, and Robi Malik. 2024. Real-time system call-based ransomware detection. Int. J. Inf. Sec. 23, 3 (2024), 1839–1858. doi.org/10.1007/S10207-024-00819-X
Farzana Zahid, Matthew Kuo, Roopak Sinha, Gustavo, Funchal, Tiago Pedrosa, Paulo Leitao. 2024. Actively Detecting Multi-Scale Flooding Attacks & Attack Volumes in Resource-Constrained ICPS. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol 20. Issue 7. 10.1109/TII.2024.3383520

2023

Pandu Ranga Reddy Konala, Vimal Kumar, and David Bainbridge. 2023. SoK: Static Configuration Analysis in Infrastructure as Code Scripts. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience, CSR 2023, Venice, Italy, 2023. IEEE, 281–288. doi.org/10.1109/CSR57506.2023.10224925
Felipe Boeira, Mikael Asplund, and Marinho Barcellos. 2023. Provable Non-Frameability for 5G Lawful Interception. In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, WiSec 2023, Guildford, United Kingdom, 29 May 2023 - 1 June 2023, 2023. ACM, 109–120. doi.org/10.1145/3558482.3581780
Gustavo Silva Funchal, Farzana Zahid, Victória Melo, Matthew M. Y. Kuo, Tiago Pedrosa, Roopak Sinha, Fernando de la Prieta, and Paulo Leitão. 2023. An Intrusion Detection System Dataset for a Multi-Agent Cyber-Physical Conveyor System. In IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, ICIT 2023, Orlando, FL, USA, April 4-6, 2023, 2023. IEEE, 1–6. doi.org/10.1109/ICIT58465.2023.10143037
Ravjot Singh Samra and Marinho Barcellos. 2023. DDoS2Vec: Flow-Level Characterisation of Volumetric DDoS Attacks at Scale. PACMNET 1, CoNEXT3 (2023), 13:1-13:25. doi.org/10.1145/3629135

2022

Felipe Boeira, Mikael Asplund, and Marinho Barcellos. 2022. No Doppelgänger: Advancing Mobile Networks Against Impersonation in Adversarial Scenarios. In WiSec ’22: 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, San Antonio, TX, USA, May 16 - 19, 2022, 2022. ACM, 280–281. doi.org/10.1145/3507657.3529651
Junaid Haseeb, Saif Ur Rehman Malik, Masood Mansoori, and Ian Welch. 2022. Probabilistic modelling of deception-based security framework using markov decision process. Comput. Secur. 115, (2022), 102599. doi.org/10.1016/J.COSE.2021.102599
Junaid Haseeb, Masood Mansoori, Yuichi Hirose, Harith Al-Sahaf, and Ian Welch. 2022. Autoencoder-based feature construction for IoT attacks clustering. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 127, (2022), 487–502. doi.org/10.1016/J.FUTURE.2021.09.025
Christopher Lorier, Matthew Luckie, Marinho Barcellos, and Richard Nelson. 2022. Shoehorn: Towards Portable P4 for Low Cost Hardware. In IFIP Networking Conference, IFIP Networking 2022, Catania, Italy, June 13-16, 2022, 2022. IEEE, 1–9. doi.org/10.23919/IFIPNETWORKING55013.2022.9829819
Fabrício M. Mazzola, Pedro de B. Marcos, and Marinho Barcellos. 2022. Light, camera, actions: characterizing the usage of IXPs’ action BGP communities. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2022, Roma, Italy, December 6-9, 2022, 2022. ACM, 196–203. doi.org/10.1145/3555050.3569143
Fabrício M. Mazzola, Pedro de B. Marcos, Ignacio Castro, Matthew Luckie, and Marinho Barcellos. 2022. On the Latency Impact of Remote Peering. In Passive and Active Measurement - 23rd International Conference, PAM 2022, Virtual Event, March 28-30, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 2022. Springer, 367–392. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98785-5_16
Michael Tsai and Vimal Kumar. 2022. Listen to the Music: Evaluating the Use of Music in Audio Based Authentication. In Ubiquitous Security - Second International Conference, UbiSec 2022, Zhangjiajie, China, December 28-31, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science), 2022. Springer, 22–37. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9_2
Farzana Zahid, Gustavo Silva Funchal, Victória Melo, Matthew M. Y. Kuo, Paulo Leitão, and Roopak Sinha. 2022. DDoS Attacks on Smart Manufacturing Systems: A Cross-Domain Taxonomy and Attack Vectors. In 20th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, INDIN 2022, Perth, Australia, July 25-28, 2022, 2022. IEEE, 214–219. doi.org/10.1109/INDIN51773.2022.9976172
Farzana Zahid, Awais Tanveer, Matthew M. Y. Kuo, and Roopak Sinha. 2022. A systematic mapping of semi-formal and formal methods in requirements engineering of industrial Cyber-Physical systems. J. Intell. Manuf. 33, 6 (2022), 1603–1638. doi.org/10.1007/S10845-021-01753-8
Zijing Zhang, Vimal Kumar, Michael Mayo, and Albert Bifet. 2022. Assessing Vulnerability from Its Description. In Ubiquitous Security - Second International Conference, UbiSec 2022, Zhangjiajie, China, December 28-31, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science), 2022. Springer, 129–143. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9_9.

2021

Tristan Corrick and Vimal Kumar. 2021. Design and Architecture of Progger 3: A Low-Overhead, Tamper-Proof Provenance System. In Ubiquitous Security - First International Conference, UbiSec 2021, Guangzhou, China, December 28-31, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science), 2021. Springer, 189–202. doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4_14
Atthapan Daramas and Vimal Kumar. 2021. Searching on Non-Systematic Erasure Codes. In 18th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2021, Auckland, New Zealand, December 13-15, 2021, 2021. IEEE, 1–8. doi.org/10.1109/PST52912.2021.9647779
Junaid Haseeb, Masood Mansoori, and Ian Welch. 2021. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) of Honeypot-Based Cybersecurity Experiment for IoT. In 46th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2021, Edmonton, AB, Canada, October 4-7, 2021, 2021. IEEE, 645–648. doi.org/10.1109/LCN52139.2021.9525010
Miguel C. Neves, Bradley Huffaker, Kirill Levchenko, and Marinho Barcellos. 2021. Dynamic Property Enforcement in Programmable Data Planes. IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 29, 4 (2021), 1540–1552. doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2021.3068339
Thye Way Phua, Panos Patros, and Vimal Kumar. 2021. Towards Embedding Data Provenance in Files. In 11th IEEE Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, CCWC 2021, Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 27-30, 2021, 2021. IEEE, 1319–1325. doi.org/10.1109/CCWC51732.2021.9375947
Daniel Roodt, Ulrich Speidel, Vimal Kumar, and Ryan K. L. Ko. 2021. On Random Editing in LZ-End. In 31st Data Compression Conference, DCC 2021, Snowbird, UT, USA, March 23-26, 2021. IEEE, 366. doi.org/10.1109/DCC50243.2021.00074
Farzana Zahid, Matthew M. Y. Kuo, and Roopak Sinha. 2021. Light-Weight Active Security for Detecting DDoS Attacks in Containerised ICPS. In 18th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2021, Auckland, New Zealand, December 13-15, 2021, 2021. IEEE, 1–5. doi.org/10.1109/PST52912.2021.9647782
Nicu Florin Zaicu, Matthew Luckie, Richard Nelson, and Marinho Barcellos. 2021. Helix: Traffic Engineering for Multi-Controller SDN. In SOSR ’21: The ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research, Virtual Event, USA, October 11 - 12, 2021, 2021. ACM, 80–87. h/doi.org/10.1145/3482898.3483354

2020

Christopher Jun-Wen Chew, Vimal Kumar, Panos Patros, and Robi Malik. 2020. ESCAPADE: Encryption-Type-Ransomware: System Call Based Pattern Detection. In Network and System Security - 14th International Conference, NSS 2020, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, November 25-27, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 2020. Springer, 388–407. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65745-1_23
Junaid Haseeb, Naveed Ahmad, Saif Ur Rehman Malik, and Adeel Anjum. 2020. Application of formal methods to modelling and analysis aspects of business process reengineering. Bus. Process. Manag. J. 26, 2 (2020), 548–569. doi.org/10.1108/BPMJ-02-2019-0078
Junaid Haseeb, Masood Mansoori, Harith Al-Sahaf, and Ian Welch. 2020. IoT Attacks: Features Identification and Clustering. In 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020, Guangzhou, China, December 29, 2020 - January 1, 2021, 2020. IEEE, 353–360. doi.org/10.1109/TRUSTCOM50675.2020.00056
Junaid Haseeb, Masood Mansoori, and Ian Welch. 2020. A Measurement Study of IoT-Based Attacks Using IoT Kill Chain. In 19th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, TrustCom 2020, Guangzhou, China, December 29, 2020 - January 1, 2021, 2020. IEEE, 557–567. doi.org/10.1109/TRUSTCOM50675.2020.00080
Pedro de B. Marcos, Marco Chiesa, Christoph Dietzel, Marco Canini, and Marinho Barcellos. 2020. A survey on the current internet interconnection practices. Comput. Commun. Rev. 50, 1 (2020), 10–17. doi.org/10.1145/3390251.3390254
Pedro de B. Marcos, Lars Prehn, Lucas Leal, Alberto Dainotti, Anja Feldmann, and Marinho Barcellos. 2020. AS-Path Prepending: there is no rose without a thorn. In IMC ’20: ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Virtual Event, USA, October 27-29, 2020, 2020. ACM, 506–520. doi.org/10.1145/3419394.3423642
Lucas F. Müller, Matthew Luckie, Bradley Huffaker, kc claffy, and Marinho Barcellos. 2020. Spoofed traffic inference at IXPs: Challenges, methods and analysis. Comput. Networks 182, (2020), 107452. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2020.107452
Daniel Roodt, Ulrich Speidel, Vimal Kumar, and Ryan K. L. Ko. 2020. Local Editing in LZ-End Compressed Data. CoRR abs/2007.06167, (2020). Retrieved from arxiv.org/abs/2007.06167
Munir Ahmad, Muhammad Abdul Qadir, Atta Rahman, Rachid Zagrouba, Fahd A. Alhaidari, Tariq Ali, and Farzana Zahid. 2023. Enhanced query processing over semantic cache for cloud based relational databases. J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput. 14, 5 (2023), 5853–5871. doi.org/10.1007/S12652-020-01943-X

2019

Felipe Boeira, Mikael Asplund, and Marinho Barcellos. 2019. Decentralized proof of location in vehicular Ad Hoc networks. Comput. Commun. 147, (2019), 98–110. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMCOM.2019.07.024
Christopher Jun-Wen Chew and Vimal Kumar. 2019. Behaviour Based Ransomware Detection. In Proceedings of 34th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, CATA 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 18-20, 2019 (EPiC Series in Computing), 2019. EasyChair, 127–136. doi.org/10.29007/T5Q7
David R. Choffnes and Marinho Barcellos (Eds.). 2019. Passive and Active Measurement - 20th International Conference, PAM 2019, Puerto Varas, Chile, March 27-29, 2019, Proceedings. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15986-3
Matthew Dekker and Vimal Kumar. 2019. Using Audio Characteristics for Mobile Device Authentication. In Network and System Security - 13th International Conference, NSS 2019, Sapporo, Japan, December 15-18, 2019, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 2019. Springer, 98–113. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36938-5_6
Vimal Kumar. 2019. A Bilinear Pairing Based Secure Data Aggregation Scheme for WSNs. In 15th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2019, Tangier, Morocco, June 24-28, 2019, 2019. IEEE, 102–107. doi.org/10.1109/IWCMC.2019.8766759
Lucas F. Müller, Matthew J. Luckie, Bradley Huffaker, kc claffy, and Marinho Barcellos. 2019. Challenges in inferring spoofed traffic at IXPs. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments And Technologies, CoNEXT 2019, Orlando, FL, USA, December 09-12, 2019, 2019. ACM, 96–109. doi.org/10.1145/3359989.3365422
Miguel C. Neves, Bradley Huffaker, Kirill Levchenko, and Marinho Barcellos. 2019. Dynamic Property Enforcement in Programmable Data Planes. In 2019 IFIP Networking Conference, Networking 2019, Warsaw, Poland, May 20-22, 2019, 2019. IEEE, 1–9. doi.org/10.23919/IFIPNETWORKING.2019.8816830

2018

Yousef Alowayed, Marco Canini, Pedro de B. Marcos, Marco Chiesa, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Picking a Partner: A Fair Blockchain Based Scoring Protocol for Autonomous Systems. In Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, ANRW 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 16-16, 2018, 2018. ACM, 33–39. doi.org/10.1145/3232755.3232785
Marinho Barcellos and Diego F. Aranha. 2018. Research in Security and Privacy in Brazil. IEEE Secur. Priv. 16, 6 (2018), 14–21. doi.org/10.1109/MSEC.2018.2874855
Felipe Boeira, Mikael Asplund, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Vouch: A Secure Proof-of-Location Scheme for VANETs. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada, October 28 - November 02, 2018, 2018. ACM, 241–248. doi.org/10.1145/3242102.3242125
Felipe Boeira, Mikael Asplund, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Mitigating Position Falsification Attacks in Vehicular Platooning. In 2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC 2018, Taipei, Taiwan, December 5-7, 2018, 2018. IEEE, 1–4. doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2018.8628427
Lucas Freire, Miguel C. Neves, Lucas Leal, Kirill Levchenko, Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Uncovering Bugs in P4 Programs with Assertion-based Verification. In Proceedings of the Symposium on SDN Research, SOSR 2018, Los Angeles, CA, USA, March 28-29, 2018, 2018. ACM, 4:1-4:7. doi.org/10.1145/3185467.3185499
Vimal Kumar, Amartya Sen, and Sanjay Madria. 2018. Secure Sensor Cloud. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. doi.org/10.2200/S00886ED1V01Y201811ASE018
Pedro de B. Marcos, Marco Chiesa, Lucas F. Müller, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Christoph Dietzel, Marco Canini, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Dynam-IX: a Dynamic Interconnection exchange. In Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, ANRW 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 16-16, 2018, 2018. ACM, 94. doi.org/10.1145/3232755.3232784
Pedro de B. Marcos, Marco Chiesa, Lucas F. Müller, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Christoph Dietzel, Marco Canini, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Dynam-IX: a dynamic interconnection eXchange. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2018, Heraklion, Greece, December 04-07, 2018, 2018. ACM, 228–240. doi.org/10.1145/3281411.3281419
Pedro de B. Marcos, Marco Chiesa, Lucas F. Müller, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Christoph Dietzel, Marco Canini, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Dynam-IX: a Dynamic Interconnection eXchange. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2018 Conference on Posters and Demos, SIGCOMM 2018, Budapest, Hungary, August 20-25, 2018, 2018. ACM, 12–14. doi.org/10.1145/3234200.3234218
Miguel C. Neves, Lucas Freire, Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, and Marinho Barcellos. 2018. Verification of P4 programs in feasible time using assertions. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2018, Heraklion, Greece, December 04-07, 2018, 2018. ACM, 73–85. doi.org/10.1145/3281411.3281421

2017

Judy Bowen, Annika Hinze, Christopher Griffiths, Vimal Kumar, David Bainbridge. 2017. Personal data collection in the workplace: ethical and technical challenges. In Proceedings of the 31st British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference (pp. 1-11). DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2017.57
Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, Matheus B. Lehmann, Rodrigo B. Mansilha, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2017. NDNrel: A mechanism based on relations among objects to improve the performance of NDN. J. Netw. Comput. Appl. 87, (2017), 73–86. doi.org/10.1016/J.JNCA.2017.03.014
Felipe Boeira, Marinho Barcellos, Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Alexey V. Vinel, and Mikael Asplund. 2017. On the impact of sybil attacks in cooperative driving scenarios. In 2017 IFIP Networking Conference, IFIP Networking 2017 and Workshops, Stockholm, Sweden, June 12-16, 2017, 2017. IEEE Computer Society, 1–2. doi.org/10.23919/IFIPNETWORKING.2017.8264890
Felipe Boeira, Marinho Barcellos, Edison Pignaton de Freitas, Alexey V. Vinel, and Mikael Asplund. 2017. Effects of colluding Sybil nodes in message falsification attacks for vehicular platooning. In 2017 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC 2017, Torino, Italy, November 27-29, 2017, 2017. IEEE, 53–60. doi.org/10.1109/VNC.2017.8275641
Lucas Freire, Miguel C. Neves, Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, and Marinho Barcellos. 2017. POSTER: Finding Vulnerabilities in P4 Programs with Assertion-based Verification. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2017, Dallas, TX, USA, October 30 - November 03, 2017, 2017. ACM, 2495–2497. doi.org/10.1145/3133956.3138837
Rodrigo B. Mansilha, Marinho Barcellos, Emilio Leonardi, and Dario Rossi. 2017. Exploiting parallelism in hierarchical content stores for high-speed ICN routers. Comput. Networks 125, (2017), 132–145. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2017.04.041
Daniel S. Marcon and Marinho Barcellos. 2017. Packer: Minimizing multi-resource fragmentation and performance interference in datacenters. In 2017 IFIP Networking Conference, IFIP Networking 2017 and Workshops, Stockholm, Sweden, June 12-16, 2017, 2017. IEEE Computer Society, 1–9. doi.org/10.23919/IFIPNETWORKING.2017.8264836
●Daniel S. Marcon, Fabrício M. Mazzola, and Marinho Barcellos. 2017. Achieving minimum bandwidth guarantees and work-conservation in large-scale, SDN-based datacenter networks. Comput. Networks 127, (2017), 109–125. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2017.08.008
Miguel C. Neves, Kirill Levchenko, and Marinho Barcellos. 2017. Sandboxing Data Plane Programs for Fun and Profit. In Posters and Demos Proceedings of the Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, SIGCOMM 2017, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 21-25, 2017, 2017. ACM, 103–104. doi.org/10.1145/3123878.3132001
Andrés F. Ocampo, Juliver Gil-Herrera, Pedro Heleno Isolani, Miguel C. Neves, Juan Felipe Botero, Steven Latré, Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2017. Optimal Service Function Chain Composition in Network Functions Virtualization. In Security of Networks and Services in an All-Connected World - 11th IFIP WG 6.6 International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2017, Zurich, Switzerland, July 10-13, 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 2017. Springer, 62–76. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60774-0_5
Behjat Zuhaira, Naveed Ahmad, Tanzila Saba, Junaid Haseeb, Saif Ur Rehman Malik, Umar Manzoor, Muhammad A. Balubaid, and Adeel Anjum. 2017. Identifying Deviations in Software Processes. IEEE Access 5, (2017), 20319–20332. doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2757954

2016

Marinho Barcellos, Jon Crowcroft, Amin Vahdat, and Sachin Katti (Eds.). 2016. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2016 Conference, Florianopolis, Brazil, August 22-26, 2016. ACM. doi.org/10.1145/2934872
Leonardo Richter Bays, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Luciana S. Buriol, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2016. A toolset for efficient privacy-oriented virtual network embedding and its instantiation on SDN/OpenFlow-based substrates. Comput. Commun. 82, (2016), 13–27. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMCOM.2016.02.007
Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Flavio Roberto Santos, Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Hanna Kavalionak, Alessio Guerrieri, and Alberto Montresor. 2016. Making puzzles green and useful for adaptive identity management in large-scale distributed systems. Comput. Networks 95, (2016), 97–114. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2015.12.005
Matheus B. Lehmann, Marinho Barcellos, and Andreas Mauthe. 2016. Providing producer mobility support in NDN through proactive data replication. In 2016 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2016, Istanbul, Turkey, April 25-29, 2016, 2016. IEEE, 383–391. doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2016.7502835
Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Leonardo Richter Bays, Luciana Salete Buriol, Antônio Marinho Pilla Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2016. How physical network topologies affect virtual network embedding quality: A characterization study based on ISP and datacenter networks. J. Netw. Comput. Appl. 70, (2016), 1–16. doi.org/10.1016/J.JNCA.2016.05.009
Daniel S. Marcon, Miguel C. Neves, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2016. PredCloud: Providing predictable network performance in large-scale OpenFlow-enabled cloud platforms through trust-based allocation of resources. Comput. Commun. 91–92, (2016), 44–61. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMCOM.2016.07.010
Alexandre Gustavo Wermann, Marcelo Cardoso Bortolozzo, Eduardo Germano da Silva, Alberto E. Schaeffer Filho, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2016. ASTORIA: A framework for attack simulation and evaluation in smart grids. In 2016 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2016, Istanbul, Turkey, April 25-29, 2016, 2016. IEEE, 273–280. doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2016.7502822

2015

Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, Matheus B. Lehmann, Rodrigo B. Mansilha, Christian Esteve Rothenberg, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2015. CCNrel: Leveraging relations among objects to improve the performance of CCN. In IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2015, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 11-15 May, 2015, 2015. IEEE, 199–206. doi.org/10.1109/INM.2015.7140293
Leonardo Richter Bays, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira. 2015. Virtual network security: threats, countermeasures, and challenges. J. Internet Serv. Appl. 6, 1 (2015), 1:1-1:19. doi.org/10.1186/S13174-014-0015-Z
Roy Cabaniss, Vimal Kumar, and Sanjay Madria. 2015. Multi-party encryption (MPE): secure communications in delay tolerant networks. Wirel. Networks 21, 4 (2015), 1243–1258. doi.org/10.1007/S11276-014-0848-1
Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Flavio Roberto Santos, Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Hanna Kavalionak, Alessio Guerrieri, and Alberto Montresor. 2016. Making puzzles green and useful for adaptive identity management in large-scale distributed systems. Comput. Networks 95, (2016), 97–114. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2015.12.005
Vimal Kumar and Sanjay Madria. 2015. Distributed Attribute Based Access Control of Aggregated Data in Sensor Clouds. In 34th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2015, Montreal, QC, Canada, September 28 - October 1, 2015, 2015. IEEE Computer Society, 218–227. doi.org/10.1109/SRDS.2015.33
Pedro García López, Alberto Montresor, Dick H. J. Epema, Anwitaman Datta, Teruo Higashino, Adriana Iamnitchi, Marinho Barcellos, Pascal Felber, and Etienne Rivière. 2015. Edge-centric Computing: Vision and Challenges. Comput. Commun. Rev. 45, 5 (2015), 37–42. doi.org/10.1145/2831347.2831354
Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Leonardo Richter Bays, Luciana Salete Buriol, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2015. Piecing together the NFV provisioning puzzle: Efficient placement and chaining of virtual network functions. In IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2015, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 11-15 May, 2015, 2015. IEEE, 98–106. doi.org/10.1109/INM.2015.7140281
Rodrigo B. Mansilha, Lorenzo Saino, Marinho Barcellos, Massimo Gallo, Emilio Leonardi, Diego Perino, and Dario Rossi. 2015. Hierarchical Content Stores in High-Speed ICN Routers: Emulation and Prototype Implementation. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information-Centric Networking, ICN ’15, San Francisco, California, USA, September 30 - October 2, 2015, 2015. ACM, 59–68. doi.org/10.1145/2810156.2810159
Daniel S. Marcon and Marinho Barcellos. 2015. Predictor: Providing fine-grained management and predictability in multi-tenant datacenter networks. In IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2015, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 11-15 May, 2015, 2015. IEEE, 71–79. doi.org/10.1109/INM.2015.7140278
Daniel S. Marcon, Miguel C. Neves, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Leonardo Richter Bays, Raouf Boutaba, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2015. IoNCloud: Exploring application affinity to improve utilization and predictability in datacenters. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2015, London, United Kingdom, June 8-12, 2015, 2015. IEEE, 5497–5503. doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2015.7249198
Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Daniel S. Marcon, Leonardo Richter Bays, Miguel C. Neves, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Deep Medhi, and Marinho Barcellos. 2015. Opportunistic resilience embedding (ORE): Toward cost-efficient resilient virtual networks. Comput. Networks 89, (2015), 59–77. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2015.07.010
Tobias Petry, Rafael da Fonte Lopes da Silva, and Marinho Barcellos. 2015. Off the wire control: Improving the control plane resilience through cellular networks. In 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2015, London, United Kingdom, June 8-12, 2015, 2015. IEEE, 5308–5313. doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2015.7249167

2014

Leonardo Richter Bays, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Luciana Salete Buriol, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2014. A heuristic-based algorithm for privacy-oriented virtual network embedding. In 2014 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2014, Krakow, Poland, May 5-9, 2014, 2014. IEEE, 1–8. doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2014.6838360
Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Rodrigo Brandão Mansilha, Flavio Roberto Santos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2014. Were You There? Bridging the Gap to Unveil Users’ Online Sessions in Networked, Distributed Systems. In 2014 Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, SBRC 2014, Florianopolis, Brazil, May 5-9, 2014, 2014. IEEE Computer Society, 239–248. doi.org/10.1109/SBRC.2014.29
Vimal Kumar and Sanjay Madria. 2014. Efficient and Secure Code Dissemination in Sensor Clouds. In IEEE 15th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2014, Brisbane, Australia, July 14-18, 2014 - Volume 1, 2014. IEEE Computer Society, 103–112. doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2014.19
Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Leonardo Richter Bays, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2014. HIPER: Heuristic-based infrastructure expansion through partition reconnection for efficient Virtual Network Embedding. In 10th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2014 and Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 17-21, 2014, 2014. IEEE Computer Society, 91–99. doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2014.7014145
Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Leonardo Richter Bays, Luciana Salete Buriol, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2014. Reconnecting Partitions on Physical Infrastructures: Towards an Expansion Strategy for Efficient Virtual Network Embedding. In 2014 Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems, SBRC 2014, Florianopolis, Brazil, May 5-9, 2014, 2014. IEEE Computer Society, 335–343. doi.org/10.1109/SBRC.2014.40
Sanjay Madria, Vimal Kumar, and Rashmi Dalvi. 2014. Sensor Cloud: A Cloud of Virtual Sensors. IEEE Softw. 31, 2 (2014), 70–77. doi.org/10.1109/MS.2013.141
Lucas F. Müller, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2014. Survivor: An enhanced controller placement strategy for improving SDN survivability. In IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2014, Austin, TX, USA, December 8-12, 2014, 2014. IEEE, 1909–1915. doi.org/10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037087
Flavio Roberto Santos, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2014. Slowing down to speed up: Protecting users against massive attacks in content distribution systems. In 2014 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2014, Krakow, Poland, May 5-9, 2014, 2014. IEEE, 1–7. doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2014.6838289

2013

Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Flavio Roberto Santos, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2013. Make it green and useful: Reshaping puzzles for identity management in large-scale distributed systems. In 2013 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2013), Ghent, Belgium, May 27-31, 2013, 2013. IEEE, 387–394.
Vimal Kumar and Sanjay Madria. 2013. PIP: Privacy and Integrity Preserving Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In IEEE 32nd Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2013, Braga, Portugal, 1-3 October 2013, 2013. IEEE Computer Society, 10–19. doi.org/10.1109/SRDS.2013.10
Matheus B. Lehmann, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, and Marinho Barcellos. 2013. Exploring your neighborhood: Comparing connection strategies in swarming networks through evolving graphs. In 13th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, IEEE P2P 2013, Trento, Italy, September 9-11, 2013, Proceedings, 2013. IEEE, 1–10. doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2013.6688701
●Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli, Leonardo Richter Bays, Luciana Salete Buriol, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2013. Characterizing the impact of network substrate topologies on virtual network embedding. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2013, Zurich, Switzerland, October 14-18, 2013, 2013. IEEE Computer Society, 42–50. doi.org/10.1109/CNSM.2013.6727808
Sanjay Madria, Vimal Kumar, and Rashmi Dalvi. 2014. Sensor Cloud: A Cloud of Virtual Sensors. IEEE Softw. 31, 2 (2014), 70–77. doi.org/10.1109/MS.2013.141
Daniel S. Marcon, Luiz F. Bittencourt, Ramide Dantas, Miguel C. Neves, Edmundo R. M. Madeira, Stenio Fernandes, Carlos Alberto Kamienski, Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Nelson L. S. da Fonseca. 2013. Workflow specification and scheduling with security constraints in hybrid clouds. In 2nd IEEE Latin American Conference on Cloud Computing and Communications, Maceio, Brazil, December 9-10, 2013, 2013. IEEE, 29–34. doi.org/10.1109/LATINCLOUD.2013.6842219
Daniel Stefani Marcon, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Miguel Cardoso Neves, Luciana Salete Buriol, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2013. Trust-based grouping for cloud datacenters: Improving security in shared infrastructures. In IFIP Networking Conference, 2013, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 22-24 May, 2013, 2013. IEEE Computer Society, 1–9.
Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Leonardo Richter Bays, Daniel S. Marcon, Miguel C. Neves, Luciana Salete Buriol, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2013. DoS-resilient virtual networks through multipath embedding and opportunistic recovery. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC ’13, Coimbra, Portugal, March 18-22, 2013, 2013. ACM, 597–602. doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480477
Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Daniel S. Marcon, Leonardo Richter Bays, Miguel C. Neves, Luciana S. Buriol, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2013. No more backups: Toward efficient embedding of survivable virtual networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2013, Budapest, Hungary, June 9-13, 2013, 2013. IEEE, 2128–2132. doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2013.6654841
Flavio Santos, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Fabio Victora Hecht, and Burkhard Stiller. 2013. Slowing down to speed up: Mitigating collusion attacks in Content Distribution Systems. In 2013 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2013), Ghent, Belgium, May 27-31, 2013, 2013. IEEE, 435–442.
Flavio Roberto Santos, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Antônio Marinho Pilla Barcellos. 2013. Beyond pollution and taste: A tag-based strategy to increase download quality in P2P file sharing systems. Comput. Commun. 36, 2 (2013), 191–202. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMCOM.2012.08.012

2012

Marinho Barcellos, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, Hisham H. Muhammad, and Ruthiano S. Munaretti. 2012. Beyond network simulators: Fostering novel distributed applications and protocols through extendible design. J. Netw. Comput. Appl. 35, 1 (2012), 328–339. doi.org/10.1016/J.JNCA.2011.07.015
Leonardo Richter Bays, Rodrigo Ruas Oliveira, Luciana Salete Buriol, Antônio Marinho Pilla Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2012. Security-aware optimal resource allocation for virtual network embedding. In 8th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2012, Las Vegas, NV, USA, October 22-26, 2012, 2012. IEEE, 378–384.
Roy Cabaniss, Vimal Kumar, and Sanjay Madria. 2012. Three Point Encryption (3PE): Secure Communications in Delay Tolerant Networks. In IEEE 31st Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2012, Irvine, CA, USA, October 8-11, 2012, 2012. IEEE Computer Society, 479–480. doi.org/10.1109/SRDS.2012.74
Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Flavio Roberto Santos, Gustavo Huff Mauch, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2012. Identity management based on adaptive puzzles to protect P2P systems from Sybil attacks. Comput. Networks 56, 11 (2012), 2569–2589. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2012.03.026
Vimal Kumar and Sanjay Kumar Madria. 2012. Secure Hierarchical Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks: Performance Evaluation and Analysis. In 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2012, Bengaluru, India, July 23-26, 2012, 2012. IEEE Computer Society, 196–201. doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2012.49
Matheus B. Lehmann, Lucas F. Müller, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, and Marinho Barcellos. 2012. Disconnecting to connect: Understanding optimistic disconnection in BitTorrent. In 12th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, P2P 2012, Tarragona, Spain, September 3-5, 2012, 2012. IEEE, 138–148. doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2012.6335793
Matheus Brenner Lehmann, Flavio Roberto Santos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2012. Denial-of-service attacks and countermeasures on BitTorrent. Comput. Networks 56, 15 (2012), 3479–3498. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2012.07.005
Flavio Roberto Santos, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Antônio Marinho Pilla Barcellos. 2013. Beyond pollution and taste: A tag-based strategy to increase download quality in P2P file sharing systems. Comput. Commun. 36, 2 (2013), 191–202. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMCOM.2012.08.012
Adler Hoff Schmidt, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2012. Characterizing dissemination of illegal copies of content through monitoring of BitTorrent networks. In 2012 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2012, Maui, HI, USA, April 16-20, 2012, 2012. IEEE, 327–334. doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2012.6211915

2011

Asjad Amin, Haseeb Ahmed, Abubakar Rafique, Muhammad Junaid Nawaz, Muhammad Salahudin, and Zulfiqar Ahmed. 2011. Designing a hierarchical DHCP server’s model to automatically provide dedicated IP address anywhere in the world with mobility. In 6th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 11-14, 2011, 2011. IEEE, 250–253.
Asjad Amin, Haseeb Ahmad Qureshi, Muhammad Junaid Nawaz, Muhammad Yasir Habib, and Waqas Anjum. 2011. Modified run length encoding scheme with introduction of bit stuffing for efficient data compression. In 6th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2011, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 11-14, 2011, 2011. IEEE, 668–672.
Marinho Barcellos, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, Hisham H. Muhammad, and Ruthiano S. Munaretti. 2012. Beyond network simulators: Fostering novel distributed applications and protocols through extendible design. J. Netw. Comput. Appl. 35, 1 (2012), 328–339. doi.org/10.1016/J.JNCA.2011.07.015
Marinho Barcellos, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, and Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes. 2011. A conservative strategy to protect P2P file sharing systems from pollution attacks. Concurr. Comput. Pract. Exp. 23, 1 (2011), 117–141. doi.org/10.1002/CPE.1635
Thaís Vasconcelos Batista, Nabor C. Mendonça, Américo Sampaio, Carlos Alberto Kamienski, Nelson L. S. da Fonseca, Edmundo R. M. Madeira, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Marinho Barcellos, Noemi de La Rocque Rodriguez, Karin K. Breitman, Djamel Sadok, Silvio Meira, Stenio F. L. Fernandes, Flávia Coimbra Delicato, and Paulo F. Pires. 2011. AltoStratus: A Collaboration Network Focused on the New Research Challenges and Opportunities in Cloud Computing. In 25th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, SBES 2011, Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 28-30, 2011, 2011. IEEE Computer Society, 138–143. doi.org/10.1109/SBES.2011.32
Rafael V. Coelho, Jonata T. Pastro, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, Marinho Barcellos, Ingrid Jansch-Pôrto, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2011. Challenging the feasibility of authentication mechanisms for P2P live streaming. In Proceedings of the 6th Latin America Networking Conference, LANC ’11, Quito, Ecuador, October 12-14, 2011, 2011. ACM, 55–63. doi.org/10.1145/2078216.2078227
Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Flavio Roberto Santos, Gustavo Huff Mauch, Marinho Barcellos, and Luciano Paschoal Gaspary. 2011. Securing P2P systems from Sybil attacks through adaptive identity management. In 7th International Conference on Network and Service Management, CNSM 2011, Paris, France, October 24-28, 2011, 2011. IEEE, 1–6.
Rodrigo B. Mansilha, Leonardo Richter Bays, Matheus B. Lehmann, Alan Mezzomo, Giovani Facchini, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2011. Observing the BitTorrent universe through Telescopes. In Proceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, IM 2011, Dublin, Ireland, 23-27 May 2011, 2011. IEEE, 321–328. doi.org/10.1109/INM.2011.5990707
Nayot Poolsappasit, Vimal Kumar, Sanjay Madria, and Sriram Chellappan. 2011. Challenges in Secure Sensor-Cloud Computing. In Secure Data Management - 8th VLDB Workshop, SDM 2011, Seattle, WA, USA, September 2, 2011, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 2011. Springer, 70–84. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23556-6_5
Flavio Roberto Santos, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2011. Funnel: Choking Polluters in BitTorrent File Sharing Communities. IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag. 8, 4 (2011), 310–321. doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2011.110311.110104

2010

Vimal Kumar and Sanjay Madria. 2010. Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Wireless Sensor Network Technologies for the Information Explosion Era, Takahiro Hara, Vladimir Zadorozhny and Erik Buchmann (eds.). Springer, 77–107. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13965-9_3
Vimal Kumar and Sanjay Madria. 2010. Performance Analysis of Secure Hierarchical Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks. In Eleventh International Conference on Mobile Data Management, MDM 2010, Kanas City, Missouri, USA, 23-26 May 2010, 2010. IEEE Computer Society, 299–300. doi.org/10.1109/MDM.2010.37
Vimal Kumar, Joshua McCarville-Schueths, and Sanjay Madria. 2010. A test-bed for secure hierarchical data aggregation in wireless sensor networks. In IEEE 7th International Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2010, 8-12 November 2010, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2010. IEEE Computer Society, 762–764. doi.org/10.1109/MASS.2010.5663825
Eduardo Moschetta, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, and Marinho Barcellos. 2010. Flexible and secure service discovery in ubiquitous computing. J. Netw. Comput. Appl. 33, 2 (2010), 128–140. doi.org/10.1016/J.JNCA.2009.11.001
Flavio Roberto Santos, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, and Marinho Barcellos. 2010. Choking polluters in BitTorrent file sharing communities. In IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2010, 19-23 April 2010, Osaka, Japan, 2010. IEEE, 559–566. doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2010.5488657

2009

Eduardo Moschetta, Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes, and Marinho Barcellos. 2010. Flexible and secure service discovery in ubiquitous computing. J. Netw. Comput. Appl. 33, 2 (2010), 128–140. doi.org/10.1016/J.JNCA.2009.11.001
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Sidnei Roberto Selzler Franco, Marinho Barcellos, and Gerson Geraldo Homrich Cavalheiro. 2009. AGRADC: An architecture for autonomous deployment and configuration of grid computing applications. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2009), July 5-8, Sousse, Tunisia, 2009. IEEE Computer Society, 805–810. doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2009.5202358
Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro, Sidnei Roberto Selzler Franco, Marinho Barcellos, and Gerson Geraldo Homrich Cavalheiro. 2009. AGRADC: An architecture for autonomous deployment and configuration of grid computing applications. In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2009), July 5-8, Sousse, Tunisia, 2009. IEEE Computer Society, 805–810. doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2009.5202358

2008

Marinho Barcellos, Daniel Bauermann, Henrique Sant’anna, Matheus B. Lehmann, and Rodrigo B. Mansilha. 2008. Protecting BitTorrent: Design and Evaluation of Effective Countermeasures against DoS Attacks. In 27th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2008), Napoli, Italy, October 6-8, 2008, 2008. IEEE Computer Society, 73–82. doi.org/10.1109/SRDS.2008.26
Marinho Barcellos, Rodrigo B. Mansilha, and Francisco V. Brasileiro. 2008. TorrentLab: investigating BitTorrent through simulation and live experiments. In Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2008), July 6-9, Marrakech, Morocco, 2008. IEEE Computer Society, 507–512. doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2008.4625749

2007

Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Marinho Barcellos, André Detsch, and Rodolfo Stoffel Antunes. 2007. Flexible security in peer-to-peer applications: Enabling new opportunities beyond file sharing. Comput. Networks 51, 17 (2007), 4797–4815. doi.org/10.1016/J.COMNET.2007.07.005
Marlom A. Konrath, Marinho Barcellos, and Rodrigo B. Mansilha. 2007. Attacking a Swarm with a Band of Liars: evaluating the impact of attacks on BitTorrent. In Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2007), September 2-5, 2007, Galway, Ireland, 2007. IEEE Computer Society, 37–44. doi.org/10.1109/P2P.2007.10
Daniel Roodt, Ulrich Speidel, Vimal Kumar, and Ryan K. L. Ko. 2020. Local Editing in LZ-End Compressed Data. CoRR abs/2007.06167, (2020). Retrieved from arxiv.org/abs/2007.06167

2006

Marinho Barcellos, Giovani Facchini, and Hisham H. Muhammad. 2006. Bridging the Gap between Simulation and Experimental Evaluation in Computer Networks. In Proceedings 39th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS-39 2006), 2-6 April 2006, Huntsville, Alabama, USA, 2006. IEEE Computer Society, 286–293. doi.org/10.1109/ANSS.2006.15
André Detsch, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Marinho Barcellos, and Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez. 2006. Flexible Security Configuration & Deployment in Peer-to-Peer Applications. In Management of Integrated End-to-End Communications and Services, 10th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, NOMS 2006, Vancouver, Canada, April 3-7, 2006. Proceedings, 2006. IEEE, 209–219. doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2006.1687552

2005

Marinho Barcellos and André Detsch. 2005. Congestion Control with ECN Support in Poll-Based Multicast Protocols. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2005), 27-30 June 2005, Murcia, Cartagena, Spain, 2005. IEEE Computer Society, 724–729. doi.org/10.1109/ISCC.2005.43
Marinho Barcellos, Maziar M. Nekovee, M. Koyabe, Michael Daw, and J. Brooke. 2005. Evaluating high-throughput reliable multicast for grid applications in production networks. In 5th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2005), 9-12 May, 2005, Cardiff, UK, 2005. IEEE Computer Society, 442–449. doi.org/10.1109/CCGRID.2005.1558588
Karl Jeacle, Jon Crowcroft, Marinho Barcellos, and Stefano Pettini. 2005. Hybrid reliable multicast with TCP-XM. In Proceedings of the 2005 ACM Conference on Emerging Network Experiment and Technology, CoNEXT 2005, Toulouse, France, October 24-27, 2005, 2005. ACM, 177–187. doi.org/10.1145/1095921.1095945
Juliano F. da Silva, Luciano Paschoal Gaspary, Marinho Barcellos, and André Detsch. 2005. Policy-based access control in peer-to-peer grid systems. In 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (GRID 2005), November 13-14, 2005, Seattle, Washington, USA, Proceedings, 2005. IEEE Computer Society, 107–113. doi.org/10.1109/GRID.2005.1542731

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HISTORY

NZCSC 2025 Winners

High School Category:

1st place: VuwCTF Grumpy C
2nd place: w2d
3rd place: [VuwCTF]BAkingBRead

Tertiary Category:

1st place: sigsegv
2nd place: VuwCTF Aterlone
3rd place: VUWCTF stegfan19274

Industry/Open Category:

1st place: Cale
2nd place: Anthony
3rd place: logebear555

NZCSC 2024 Winners

Grand Prize Winner: Jamie McClymont and Thomas Hobson

Grand Runner-up: Michael Young and Aaron Rumpler

Round 1 Category Winners:

High School Category: Tane Haines, Ture Hansson, Oscar Horne
Tertiary Category: Michael Young, Aaron Rumpler
Industry/Open Category: Elliott Lawrence, Jakub Sawicki

Round 2 Category Winners:

High School Category: Fionn Cassidy, Ivan Shabashev
Tertiary Category: Jess Churchill, Avocado Rider
Industry/Open Category: Jamie McClymont, Thomas Hobson

Round 2 Runner-up:

Secondary Category: Tane Haines, Ture Hansson, Oscar Horne
Tertiary Category: Michael Young, Aaron Rumpler

Side Challenge Top 3 Winners:

Jake Nicholson
Aidan Dunn
Jack Crenfeldt

NZCSC 2023 Winners

Grand Winners: Cale Budd, Josh Hogan, Sam Hogan

Grand Runner-up: Charlotte MacKenzie, Jamie McClymont

Round 1 & 2 Winners:

Secondary Category:

Elijah Michel
Thomas Jackson
Alex Berry

Tertiary Category:

Ava Rider
James Churchill
Thomas Hobson

Industry/Open Category:

Caleb Butcher
Yek Tham
Austin Chamberlain

Round 1 & 2 First Runner-up:

Secondary Category:

Elliott Bell
Maxwell Robati
Toby Connor-Kebbell

Tertiary Category:

Jonty Morris
Sam Redmond
Oliver Wright

Round 1 & 2 Second Runner-up:

Secondary Category:

Joel Bannister
Lev Petersen
Theo Keith

Tertiary Category:

Ethan Doughty
Jack Gong
John C

Challene Solvers

Medium Challenge 8 First Solver: Bert Downs, Rowan Thorley, Alexander Stokes
Medium Challenge 10 First Solver: Anthony Chilcott-Parker
Medium Challenge 11 First Solver: Cale Budd, Josh Hogan, Sam Hogan
Medium Challenge 12 First Solver: Cale Budd, Josh Hogan, Sam Hoga

High School Special Prize

First Solver Challenge 2: Aaron Moore, Gavith Dharmasena, Jack Li
Second Solver Challenge 1: James de Hair, Harrison Welford, William Robbers

NZCSC 2022

WHAT HAPPENED?

The 2022 NZ Cyber Security Challenge was held online with Round 0, Round 1 and 2 were on-campus.

- Waikato x Cardiff winners -

Congratulations to the winners of Waikato x Cardiff round.
The Waikato University winner is DoingGood.
The Cardiff University winner is heartburn.

- Round 1 and 2 winners -

Grand Prize Winner, 1500 NZD : Covid_Brain

Round 1 Category Winner, 750 NZD

HighSchool Category: WHS's finest
Tertiary/University Category: Unluggy Uce
Industry/Open Category: The Prototype Polluters

Round 2 Category Winner, 750 NZD

HighSchool Category: stAk
Tertiary/University Category: Unluggy Uce
Industry/Open Category: Covid_Brain

Round 2 Category First runner-up, 300 NZD

HighSchool Category: Team 3
Tertiary/University Category: The Pi Guys
Industry/Open Category: The Prototype Polluters

Round 2 Category Second runner-up, 150 NZD

HighSchool Category: BeefStew
Tertiary/University Category: NightmareRats
Industry/Open Category: anthonycp

- Medium and Hard Challenges -

Medium Challenges, 75 NZD

Challenge 4: Team 6
Challenge 9: SaladPants
Challenge 11: anthonycp

Hard Challenges, 150 NZD

Challenge 2: The Interns
Challenge 7: Covid_Brain
Challenge 12: The Prototype Polluters

NZCSC 2021

WHAT HAPPENED?

The 2021 NZ Cyber Security Challenge was held online with Round 0, Round 1 and 2 were on-campus.

Grand Prize Winner - Sponsored By Bhojraj Parmar: Rhys Davies

Round 2 Category Winner

HighSchool Category: Andrew Rider
Tertiary/University Category: Cale Budd
Industry/Open Category: Rhys Davies

Round 2 Category Runner-up

HighSchool Category: Misha Pavlov
Tertiary/University Category: Sam Redmond
Industry/Open Category: Grady Hooker

Round 1 Category Winner

HighSchool Category: Finn Robinson
Tertiary/University Category: Ethan Mckee-Harris
Industry/Open Category: Brendan Laing

Individual Challenge Rewards
Medium Challenges

Challenge 6: Logan Krippner
Challenge 7: Kushan Fernando
Challenge 13: Sam Redmond
Challenge 15: Logan Warner

Hard Challenges

Challenge 8: Jamie McClymont

Notice regarding NZCSC 2021:
After the culmination of NZCSC'21 it was brought to our attention that some challenges were plagiarized from sources on the internet. The NZCSC organisers reported this to the employer of the person who created and submitted the challenges to be used in NZCSC. The employer took swift and strictest possible action for the misconduct. The NZCSC values integrity above everything else and the team was deeply saddened with the discovery. We apologise to all NZCSC'21 participants for this oversight and assure everyone that we have now put measures in place to ensure this does not happen again.

NZCSC 2020

WHAT HAPPENED?

The 2020 NZ Cyber Security Challenge was held online with Round 0, Round 1 and a purple team challenge all held online

Grand Winner: Jamie McClymont

Category Winners

HighSchool Category: Technocoder(Zhiyuan Qi)
Tertiary/University Category: Dast(Daniel Stokes)
Industry/Open Category: Jamie McClymont

The Top 10

Dast (Daniel Stokes)
Tomais Williamson
Jamie McClymont
Logan Krippner
Technocoder(Zhiyuan Qi)
ZerOne (Sam Redmond)
Samdaman (Sam Hogan)
Fromage (Joshua Hogan)
Michael Jang
RavSS (Ravjot Singh Samra)

Individual Challenge Rewards
Medium Challenges

Challenge 4: Fromage (Joshua Hogan)
Challenge 5: Toby Heitland
Challenge 7: Gittarackur (Ryo Sugiyama)

Hard Challenges

Challenge 8: Fromage (Joshua Hogan)
Challenge 10: Jamie McClymont
Challenge 11: Jamie McClymont
Challenge 12: Jamie McClymont

NZCSC 2019

FIRST PLACE

Team 'The Password Inspectors' - Jamie McClymont, Rhys Davies.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Congratulations to all the Cyber Security Challenge competitors of 2019. This year, the challengers took on the Internet of Things with the focus on - forensics, reverse engineering, steganography, web-application security and cryptography.

RUNNER-UP OF TERTIARY CATEGORY

Now UC Me (Joshua & Sam Hogan, University)

WINNER OF SECONDARY CATEGORY

Thonking (Cameron Li & Jason Xu)

RUNNER-UP OF SECONDARY CATEGORY

Arrays start at 1 (Ethyn Gillies & Marshall Patty)

RUNNER-UP OF SECONDARY CATEGORY

Frozen Orange (Orion Edwards & Thilanka Priyankara)

RUNNER-UP OF INDUSTRY CATEGORY

Gradyhooker (Grady Hooker).

NZCSC 2018

FIRST PLACE

Team Elliptic Curveballs - Logan Krippner, Jacob Cheatley and Michael Jang.

Women's Technical Challenge Champions

Team Octocats - Jamie McClymont and Abigail Koay

Drone challenge winners

Team UniHack - Rajat Rokhade, Debac Manikandan and Arnav Gogia

WHAT HAPPENED?

The NZ Cyber Security Challenge 2018 (NZCSC'18) hovered into action with a drone challenge for Round 1 & 2 contestants at the University of Waikato campus. Challengers tested their hacking skills as they attempted to take charge of a drone controlled by a host's smartphone and intercept photos taken by the drone's camera. Prizes were awarded to the successful hackers. NZCSC'18 action also included training sessions with some of the best, opportunities to kickstart a cyber security career at the job fair and talks by some of the movers and shakers in the industry. Round 0 online qualifying round took place from June 18-29, with the top 150 moving on to Rounds 1 and 2 on July 14 at the University.

CSC 2017

FIRST PLACE

2017 challenge known for Challenge Winner Repeat Performance .
It was a repeat performance by the overall champions team Arcton, Nathaniel Watson, Jeremy Symon and Grady Hooker took out last year's Challenge.

Representing industry, they walked away with a cheque for $2500 and NetHui fellowships. Jeremy is currently doing a Masters of Computer Science at Waikato and working at Gallagher, and Grady and Nathaniel are former Waikato Computer Science students now working in the computer science industry.

RUNNERS UP

Overall runners-up 418ShortAndStout - Michael Robertson and Brent Vollebregt - placed top in the tertiary division and took home $1800.

Top performers in the high school division after Rounds 1 and 2, SQL Sharks twins Sam and Josh Hogan also took out first place in the new Policy Round. Contestants were tested on responsible disclosures, asked to critique a really badly-written cyber policy, and suggest incident response next steps for a fictitious event.

The winning team from the industry division after Rounds 1 and 2 were Jack Haystead, Daniel Tebbutt and Declan ter Veer-Burke. They took home a cheque for $1800.

WHAT HAPPENED?

NZCSC'17 hit all the right keys with VIPs from the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and INTERPOL attending. GCSB director Andrew Hampton told the Challengers it wasn't long ago that people were saying cyber security should be on the agenda but now the agenda is cyber security.

Although, In this year's Challenge CROW collaborated with Japan's National Institute of Communications and Information Technology ( NICT ) to up the ante in the visualisation of the attack and defend networks of the competition. CROW member Cameron Brown worked with Koei Suzuki to customise the NIRVANA Kai visualisation to show network traffic between the Round 3 servers. The collaboration is mutually beneficial as NICT will utilise CROW technology in the future. NICT supply the visualisations for Japan's largest cyber security competition SECCON.

CSC 2016

FIRST PLACE

Team Name: Hodor (462,250 points)
Team Members: Sjoerd de Feijter, Matthew Stringer, Vladimir Petko
Industry category team, representing Gallagher Group

RUNNERS UP

First Runner-Up

Team Name: Solo Team(406,160 points)
Team Members: Michael Robertson, 17 years old,
Secondary School Category team, representing Cambridge High School.

Second Runner-Up

Team Name: Arcton(386,300 points)
Team members: jeremy Symon, Nathaniel Watson, Grady Hooker
Tertiary category team, representing University of Waikato Faculty of Computing And Mathematical Sciences

WHAT HAPPENED?

Due to the popularity of the competition in 2015, we introduced an online qualifying round, Round Zero. 267 participants registered for Round Zero and attempted the challenges between the 17 June - 1st July, after which the Top 150 were chosen to attend the competition on the 14 and 15 July.

Participants competed in two rounds: Round One, a capture-the-flag style challenge and Round Two, a Red team vs. Blue team game where the Blue teams had to defend their vulnerable servers from attacks from the Red teams, which consisted of an Industry Professional from Gallagher and two CROW members.

CSC 2015

FIRST PLACE

Team Name: Ter B

RUNNERS UP

First Runner-Up

Team Name: DoubleMC

Second Runner-Up

Team Name: Kanye4Prez

WHAT HAPPENED?

NZCSC'15 was open to all of New Zealand and participants were split into 3 categories: Secondary, Tertiary, and Industry/Open.

The competition had 2 rounds: Round 1 was a capture-the-flag style challenge. Round 2, open to the top 5 teams of Round 1, was a Red team vs. Blue team style challenge where 5 Blue teams defended their systems against the Red team, which included Industry professionals from Insomnia Security and PWC Digital.

CSC 2014

The first instalment of the Cyber Security Challenge was open to University of Waikato students only.

CSC'14 had a single round - a capture-the-flag style challenge where the students participants solved challenges to acquire flags. The event served its purpose: to gauge students' interest in a Cyber Security-themed competition. Over 70 students registered, attended the training and paticipated in the competition, which encouraged the organisers to plan the next CSC.

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NZCSC 2025 Winners

NZCSC 2024 Winners

NZCSC 2023 Winners

NZCSC 2022

WHAT HAPPENED?

- Waikato x Cardiff winners -

- Round 1 and 2 winners -

- Medium and Hard Challenges -

NZCSC 2021

WHAT HAPPENED?

NZCSC 2020

WHAT HAPPENED?

NZCSC 2019

FIRST PLACE

WHAT HAPPENED?

RUNNER-UP OF TERTIARY CATEGORY

WINNER OF SECONDARY CATEGORY

RUNNER-UP OF SECONDARY CATEGORY

RUNNER-UP OF SECONDARY CATEGORY

RUNNER-UP OF INDUSTRY CATEGORY

NZCSC 2018

FIRST PLACE

Women's Technical Challenge Champions

Drone challenge winners

WHAT HAPPENED?

CSC 2017

FIRST PLACE

RUNNERS UP

WHAT HAPPENED?

CSC 2016

FIRST PLACE

RUNNERS UP

First Runner-Up

Second Runner-Up

WHAT HAPPENED?

CSC 2015

FIRST PLACE

RUNNERS UP

First Runner-Up

Second Runner-Up

WHAT HAPPENED?

CSC 2014