Security & Privacy
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In a recent retirement talk, Professor Steve Bellovin shared his journey from the early days of his career to his thoughts on the future of security and tech policy.
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A federal jury awarded Columbia University more than $185 million in damages after finding that NortonLifeLock Inc. willfully and literally infringed two patents related to groundbreaking cybersecurity safeguards invented at Columbia by CS professor Salvatore Stolfo and Angelos Keromytis.
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The Software Systems Laboratory bagged Best Paper Awards at the 15th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2021) and the 2021 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 2021).
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The security group works on a diverse set of security and privacy issues arising across the software/hardware stack.
The key research goal of the group is to design, develop, and deploy principled solutions for improving the security and privacy aspects of computer systems.
The group has a broad set of expertise ranging from systems security to designing privacy policies. It is a highly collaborative group and most of their students are co-advised by multiple faculty members.