Vince Mutolo

Research

Quantum Systems Security

I work on cybersecurity for quantum computing systems. I'm a Computer Science PhD student (2023 cohort) advised by Dr. Sal Stolfo at Columbia University.

Network Security

Prior to starting my PhD, I worked at Centripetal Networks as a researcher and data scientist. I developed techniques to predict domain-name mimicry attacks (and identify existing ones), speed up packet classification on large rule sets, classify website content as malicious using machine learning, and probabilistically identify the destination of outbound traffic protected by ECH (Encrypted Client Hello).

Patent publications:

• Malicious homoglyphic domain name generation and associated cyber security applications (predicting domain mimicry attacks, pending)
• Malicious homoglyphic domain name detection and associated cyber security applications (detecting domain mimicry attacks, pending)
• Efficient Threat Context-Aware Packet Filtering for Network Protection (dynamic packet filtering rule generation)
• Methods and Systems for Efficient Adaptive Logging of Cyber Threat Incidents (network incident log compression)
• Methods and Systems for Efficient Encrypted SNI Filtering for Cybersecurity Applications (probabilistically defeating ECH on corporate networks)