- Behavioral Feature Engineering — profile intent, not just indicators
- Adversarial Emulation — break models to find structural weaknesses
- Detection-at-Scale — operationalize for high-volume, noisy environments
On agentic AI: Actively transitioning into this space. Pursuing OSAI as a structured path in.
Master's Thesis
Advisors: Prof. Steven Weber and Ben Goodman
Dagmawi Mulugeta, "Security Posture Based Incident Forecasting," 2019 [pdf] [slides]
Papers
Dagmawi Mulugeta, Ben Goodman, and Steven Weber. "Security posture-based incident forecasting." Variance Journal 15.1 (2022) [pdf]
Security systems and methods for detecting malleable command and control; Aug 2024; Netskope, Inc.; Dagmawi Mulugeta, Wu-Sheng Lin, Colin Davidson Estep, Raymond Joseph Canzanese Jr., Yong Zheng, Haoxin Hu, Yongxing Wang, Siying Yang
ML-based encrypted file classification for identifying encrypted data movement; Apr 2024; Netskope, Inc.; Yi Zhang, Siying Yang, Yihua Liao, Dagmawi Mulugeta, Raymond Joseph Canzanese Jr., Ari Azarafrooz
Trained model to detect malicious command and control traffic; Dec 2023; Netskope, Inc.; Colin Estep, Siying Yang, Jenko Hwong, Gustavo Palazolo Eiras, Yongxing Wang, Dagmawi Mulugeta, Raymond Joseph Canzanese Jr.
Detecting malicious command and control cloud traffic; Aug 2023; Netskope, Inc.; Dagmawi Mulugeta, Raymond Joseph Canzanese Jr., Colin Estep, Siying Yang, Jenko Hwong, Gustavo Palazolo Eiras, Yongxing Wang
Training a model to detect malicious command and control cloud traffic; Mar 2023; Netskope, Inc.; Raymond Joseph Canzanese Jr., Colin Estep, Siying Yang, Jenko Hwong, Gustavo Palazolo Eiras, Yongxing Wang, Dagmawi Mulugeta
Netskope Threat Labs — 2020 to present
- Identify, profile, and hunt the latest trends in cloud-enabled threats
- Design and implement advanced heuristic and ML-based detections
- Publish academic and non-academic research to advance the field
Cloud Threat Team, Sift Security (acq. Netskope) — 2018
- Member of backend engineering, data science, and threat research groups
- Gained deep understanding in securing cloud providers (GCP & AWS)
- Solved complex issues in the product's detection components
S.T.A.R Scholar, Drexel University — 2015
- Faculty-mentored research under Dr. Matthew Prockup and Prof. Youngmoo Kim
- Capstone projects: Museum Finder and Shuttle Tracker for Prof. Neville Vakharia
- Recommendation letter