Masood Ali

I am a Senior Staff Security Researcher at Palo Alto Networks, where I am part of the research team working on DNS and IP security. My current research takes a measurement-driven approach to Internet infrastructure abuse: evaluating how well detection mechanisms actually perform in practice, and understanding how malicious activity emerges, shifts, and decays over time.

I received my PhD from the University of Illinois Chicago, where I was advised by Chris Kanich and Jason Polakis. My PhD research focused on evaluating the security and privacy mechanisms of web browsers and web applications, and resulted in the discovery of several practical privacy flaws that stem from the design and implementation of major frameworks and mechanisms.