Naif Al-anazi

After KAUST Academy

Naif and a team representing the Tuwaiq Club at King Faisal University won first place at Cyberthon 2026 in October 2026 with ADControls, a tool that finds Active Directory misconfigurations. Earlier in 2026, Naif earned the Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP) certification.

Summer project

Cybersecurity Specialization · Cohort 2026

Massar – Attack Path Hypothesis Engine (APHE)

An exposure-based attack-path hypothesis engine. It combines exposed assets (hosts, IPs, and services) with known vulnerability data, enumerates the attacker chains supported by that data, and ranks them deterministically—helping security teams identify where to fix things first. An LLM evaluates the plausibility of each already-enumerated chain and provides its rationale, along with AI-generated detection guidance for the blue team.

Read the final report (PDF)

With KAUST Academy

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