Hello!
My name is Adam Oest.
I am a cybersecurity leader at Amazon and a graduate of the SEFCOM lab at Arizona State University. I'm passionate about making the Internet safer for everyone: my current work focuses on measuring and enhancing ecosystem-level protections against social engineering, fraud, and abuse (relevant publications can be found below). In addition to web security and privacy, I'm also interested in CS education research.
Some of my passions include travel, photography, and aviation. Since 2006, I have been running PentaxForums.com, the largest community of its kind devoted to supporting Pentax camera users.
Some of my passions include travel, photography, and aviation. Since 2006, I have been running PentaxForums.com, the largest community of its kind devoted to supporting Pentax camera users.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Arizona State University (2017-2020)
Concentration: Information Assurance / Cybersecurity
Dissertation: Leveraging Scalable Data Analysis to Proactively Bolster the Anti-Phishing Ecosystem
Concentration: Information Assurance / Cybersecurity
Dissertation: Leveraging Scalable Data Analysis to Proactively Bolster the Anti-Phishing Ecosystem
Master of Science in Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology (2012-2013)
Concentration: Data Management
Concentration: Data Management
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Rochester Institute of Technology (2009-2012)
Highest Honors | Minors: Web Development, Spanish Language
Highest Honors | Minors: Web Development, Spanish Language
Publications
CrawlPhish: Large-scale Analysis of Client-side Cloaking Techniques in Phishing, to appear in the Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 2021, San Francisco, CA.
Penghui Zhang, Adam Oest, Haehyun Cho, Zhibo Sun, RC Johnson, Brad Wardman, Shaown Sarker, Alexandros Kapravelos, Tiffany Bao, Ruoyu Wang, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Adam Doupé, and Gail-Joon Ahn.
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*IEEE Security & Privacy Best Paper Award
Penghui Zhang, Adam Oest, Haehyun Cho, Zhibo Sun, RC Johnson, Brad Wardman, Shaown Sarker, Alexandros Kapravelos, Tiffany Bao, Ruoyu Wang, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Adam Doupé, and Gail-Joon Ahn.
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*IEEE Security & Privacy Best Paper Award
Sunrise to Sunset: Analyzing the End-to-end Life Cycle and Effectiveness of Phishing Attacks at Scale, in the Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2020, Boston, MA.
Adam Oest, Penghui Zhang, Brad Wardman, Eric Nunes, Jakub Burgis, Ali Zand, Kurt Thomas, Adam Doupé, and Gail-Joon Ahn.
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*2020 Internet Defense Prize Winner | USENIX Distinguished Paper Award
Adam Oest, Penghui Zhang, Brad Wardman, Eric Nunes, Jakub Burgis, Ali Zand, Kurt Thomas, Adam Doupé, and Gail-Joon Ahn.
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*2020 Internet Defense Prize Winner | USENIX Distinguished Paper Award
PhishTime: Continuous Longitudinal Measurement of the Effectiveness of Anti-phishing Blacklists, in the Proceedings of the 29th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2020, Boston, MA.
Adam Oest, Yeganeh Safaei, Penghui Zhang, Brad Wardman, Kevin Tyers, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Adam Doupé, and Gail-Joon Ahn.
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Adam Oest, Yeganeh Safaei, Penghui Zhang, Brad Wardman, Kevin Tyers, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Adam Doupé, and Gail-Joon Ahn.
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Leveraging Scalable Data Analysis to Proactively Bolster the Anti-Phishing Ecosystem.
Adam Oest. Arizona State University, May 2020.
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Adam Oest. Arizona State University, May 2020.
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PhishFarm: A Scalable Framework for Measuring the Effectiveness of Evasion Techniques Against Browser Phishing Blacklists, in the Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, May 2019, San Francisco, CA.
Adam Oest, Yeganeh Safaei, Adam Doupé, Gail-Joon Ahn, Brad Wardman, and Kevin Tyers.
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*Distinguished Technical Poster Award
Adam Oest, Yeganeh Safaei, Adam Doupé, Gail-Joon Ahn, Brad Wardman, and Kevin Tyers.
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*Distinguished Technical Poster Award
Inside a Phisher’s Mind: Understanding the Anti-phishing Ecosystem Through Phishing Kit Analysis, in the Proceedings of the 2018 APWG Symposium on Electronic Crime Research (eCrime), San Diego, CA.
Adam Oest, Yeganeh Safaei, Adam Doupé, Gail-Joon Ahn, Brad Wardman, and Gary Warner.
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Adam Oest, Yeganeh Safaei, Adam Doupé, Gail-Joon Ahn, Brad Wardman, and Gary Warner.
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Feedback-driven clustering for automated linking of web pages, 8th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2013), London, 2013, pp. 344-349. Adam Oest and Manjeet Rege.
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Student development of board game strategies in a web-based graphical infrastructure (abstract only), In the Proceedings of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '13).
Adam Oest, Ivona Bezáková, James Heliotis, and Sean Strout.
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Adam Oest, Ivona Bezáková, James Heliotis, and Sean Strout.
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Programming board-game strategies in the introductory CS sequence (abstract only), in the Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '12).
Ivona Bezakova, James Heliotis, Sean Strout, Adam Oest, and Paul Solt.
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Ivona Bezakova, James Heliotis, Sean Strout, Adam Oest, and Paul Solt.
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Contact...
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