Grant Williams

Georgia Institute of Technology

gwilliams319 [at] gatech.edu

I am a CS Ph.D. Candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology specializing in Computer Science and Cybersecurity. My research is at the intersection of Cybersecurity, Network Measurement, and Machine Learning. My recent work focuses on approaches and techniques for IPv6 Internet-wide scanning, and deploying IPv6 scanning for Internet-wide Security experiments (like ZMap did for IPv4). If you’re interested in my work and want to get in touch feel free to reach out (email is best)!

I am advised by Prof. Paul Pearce at Georgia Tech in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy. Prior to pursuing my Ph.D. I obtained an MS in Machine Learning.

news

Oct 20, 2024	Invited to give a talk at MAPRG at IETF 2024 for Seeds of Scanning.
Sep 13, 2024	Our paper on IPv6 Scanning Analysis accepted to IMC ‘24
Aug 17, 2024	Presented 6Sense at the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium 2024.
Apr 11, 2024	We have open sourced 6Sense along with our full suite of IPv6 scanning tools.
Oct 10, 2023	Our paper on 6Sense, an IPv6 scanning system, accepted to the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium 2024.

selected publications

USENIX ’24

6Sense: Internet-Wide IPv6 Scanning and its Security Applications

Grant Williams, Mert Erdemir, Amanda Hsu, Shraddha Bhat, Abhishek Bhaskar, Paul Pearce, and Frank Li

In 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), Aug 2024

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@inproceedings{williams1,
  author = {Williams, Grant and Erdemir, Mert and Hsu, Amanda and Bhat, Shraddha and Bhaskar, Abhishek and Pearce, Paul and Li, Frank},
  title = {6Sense: Internet-Wide IPv6 Scanning and its Security Applications},
  booktitle = {33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24)},
  month = aug,
  year = {2024},
  address = {Philadelphia, PA},
  url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity24/presentation/williams},
  publisher = {USENIX Association},
}

IMC ’24

Seeds of Scanning: Understanding the Effects of Datasets, Methods, and Metrics on IPv6 Address Discovery

Grant Williams, and Paul Pearce

In Proceedings of the 24th ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Madrid, Spain, Nov 2024

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@inproceedings{williams2,
  author = {Williams, Grant and Pearce, Paul},
  title = {Seeds of Scanning: Understanding the Effects of Datasets, Methods, and Metrics on IPv6 Address Discovery},
  year = {2024},
  month = nov,
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th ACM Internet Measurement Conference},
  location = {Madrid, Spain},
}