Markus Jakobsson

Current

• Co-founder at FatSkunk
• Member of Fraud Advisory Board at LifeLock
• Member of Technical Advisory Board at CellFony

• co-founder at Extricatus, LLC
• Founder at RavenWhite
• Testifying Patent Expert Witness at Variety of Law Firms
• Adjunct Associate Professor at IUB

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Past

• Principal Scientist at Palo Alto Research Center
• Principal Research Scientist at RSA Labs
• Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

• Founder at Datopia

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Education

• University of California, San Diego
• Lunds Tekniska Högskola

Recommendations

16 recommendations

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My Company

Markus Jakobsson’s Summary

Using adversarial modeling from the field of cryptography, combined with related modeling of human behavior, I analyse the security of real-life applications and design improved security protocols. The efforts are often aimed at gaining a better understanding of and preventing phishing, pharming, malware spread and click-fraud, but also address incentive problems, advertisement, and privacy. My background involves cryptographic protocol design, theoretical aspects of cryptography, incentive structures, lightweight cryptography and wireless security. I enjoy intellectual property matters.

My Erdös number is 3.

Markus Jakobsson’s Specialties:

mobile malware, phishing and countermeasures, combined social and technical threats, protocol design, privacy, click-fraud, user interfaces, voting.

Markus Jakobsson’s Experience

• Co-founder

  FatSkunk

  (Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

  August 2009 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  We deal with mobile malware in an entirely new way.

• Member of Fraud Advisory Board

  LifeLock

  (Privately Held; Consumer Services industry)

  March 2009 — Present (1 year 7 months)

• Member of Technical Advisory Board

  CellFony

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  June 2008 — Present (2 years 4 months)

• co-founder

  Extricatus, LLC

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  2007 — Present (3 years )

  We develop educational material to promote better security decisions. Visit www.securitycartoon.com for an example of what we can do!

• Founder

  RavenWhite

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  2005 — Present (5 years )

  We believe that phishing is best fought using server-side measures, thereby avoiding educational requirements, support calls, and fears of spoofed requests to "update" software. My role in RavenWhite involves developing the vision of where the threats are headed; coordination of product development; and client contacts.

• Testifying Patent Expert Witness

  Variety of Law Firms

  (Legal Services industry)

  January 2005 — Present (5 years 9 months)

  I have worked as testifying expert witness in computer and network security for a collection of patent litigation trials, both in the US and in Canada. Please contact me for more information and for references.

• Adjunct Associate Professor

  IUB

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  August 2004 — Present (6 years 2 months)

  In 2004, IUB made a major effort in building a strong security group (see http://security.informatics.indiana.edu/), with support from the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (http://cacr.iu.edu/) and various funding agencies.

• Principal Scientist

  Palo Alto Research Center

  (Public Company; XRX; Computer Software industry)

  October 2007 — April 2010 (2 years 7 months)

  Principal Scientist at PARC, and a member of the security group -- spending much time on understanding fraud, authentication and malware.

• Principal Research Scientist

  RSA Labs

  (Public Company; rsas; Computer & Network Security industry)

  May 2000 — August 2004 (4 years 4 months)

  My research was focused on finding the next threats and applications; I made efforts to steer the RSA research towards wireless research, RFID research, and phishing research. Although these directions were not immediately embraced, they are now part of the central research foci of RSA Labs.

• Member of Technical Staff

  Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

  (Public Company; LU; Computer & Network Security industry)

  June 1997 — May 2000 (3 years )

• Founder

  Datopia

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1985 — 1992 (7 years )

  Ran a small software company producing educational software for the Swedish market. Did pretty well until imported software killed us.

Markus Jakobsson’s Education

• University of California, San Diego

  PhD , computer science , 1993 — 1997

• Lunds Tekniska Högskola

  MSc (civilingenjor) , computer engineering (datateknik) , 1987 — 1992

Additional Information

Markus Jakobsson’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Company

Markus Jakobsson’s Interests:

Fraud, malware, authentication.

Markus Jakobsson’s Groups:

Visiting Research Scholar of Anti-Phishing Working Group; member of Internatonal Association for Cryptologic Research and International Identity Theft Technology Council; founding member of eFraudNetwork forum.

•    Malware/Spyware/Security-Researchers/Analysts
•    Financial Services Technology Group
•    Cisco Press - Official publisher of Cisco
•    Security Week - InfoSec Leaders Community

Markus Jakobsson’s Contact Settings

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