Simson L. Garfinkel is an Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and a fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University.
In addition to his academic work, Garfinkel is a journalist and writer in the field of computer security, who has written fourteen books on computing. Garfinkel has contributed to the RISKS Digest, and has written for Wired magazine, The Boston Globe, CSO magazine, and Technology Review[1].
Garfinkel is a founder of Sandstorm Enterprises, a computer security firm that develops advanced computer forensic tools used by businesses and governments to audit their systems. He is also the founder of Martha's Vineyard Vineyard.NET. He holds several patents[2].
Garfinkel is regarded as a pioneer in the emerging field of HCISec.
Biography
Garfinkel obtained three S.B. degrees from MIT in 1987; a M.S. in journalism from Columbia University in 1988; and a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 2005. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University from September 2005 through August 2008.[3]
In 2003 Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat published an article in IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine reporting on an experiment in which they purchased 158 used hard drives from a variety of sources and checked to see whether they still contained readable data. Roughly one third of the drives appeared to have information that was highly confidential and should have been erased prior to the drive's resale.
In 2006, Garfinkel introduced Cross-Drive Analysis, an unsupervised machine learning algorithm for automatically reconstructing social networks from hard drives and other kinds of data carrying devices that are likely to contain pseudo-unique information.[4]
Bibliography
- Garfinkel, Simson and Michael K. Mahoney (2002). Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guide. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 0-596-00235-1.
- Garfinkel, Simson (2000). Database Nation; The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 0-596-00105-3. (review by Peter G. Neumann and review by Eugene Spafford, in the RISKS Digest)
- Garfinkel, Simson, Daniel Weise, and Steven Strassmann (editors) (1994). UNIX-HATERS Handbook. IDG. ISBN 1-56884-203-1.
- Garfinkel, Simson and Robert C. Miller (2005). "Johnny 2: A User Test of Key Continuity Management with S/MIME and Outlook Express". Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security.
- Garfinkel, Simson and Alan Schwartz (1998). Stopping Spam. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 1-56592-388-X. (review by Rob Slade in the RISKS Digest)
- Garfinkel, Simson (1995-04-21). "AOHell", The Boston Globe. (an article about AOHell, re-published in the RISKS Digest)
- Garfinkel, Simson and Eugene Spafford (1996). Practical UNIX and Internet Security. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 1-56592-148-8. (review by Peter G. Neumann in the RISKS Digest)
- Garfinkel, Simson (1995). PGP: Pretty Good Privacy. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 1-56592-098-8.
- Garfinkel, Simson and Michael K. Mahoney (1993). NeXTStep Programming. The Electronic Library of Science. ISBN 0-387-97884-4.
References
- ^ "Staff List," Technology Review.com, July 7, 2008 http://www.technologyreview.com/corp/staff.aspx
- ^ U.S. Patent 7,023,854 U.S. Patent 6,993,661 U.S. Patent 6,744,864 U.S. Patent 6,678,270 U.S. Patent 6,490,349
- ^ Harvard CRCS ยป Welcome to CRCS
- ^ Garfinkel, S., "Forensic Feature Extraction and Cross-Drive Analysis," Digital Investigation, Volume 3, Supplement 1, September 2006, Pages 71--81. http://www.simson.net/clips/academic/2006.DFRWS.pdf
- Schwartau, Winn (2003-05-03). "Sidestep the Data Storage Blues: An argument for sanitizing hard disks", MX Developers' Journal.
- CRCS Website
- NPS Computer Science Website
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