Principal Scientist, PARC; technical advisor to LifeLock and CellFony; co-founder of RavenWhite, Extricatus and FatSkunk
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Co-founder at FatSkunk
- Member of Fraud Advisory Board at LifeLock
- Member of Technical Advisory Board at CellFony
- Principal Scientist at Palo Alto Research Center
- co-founder at Extricatus, LLC
- co-founder at Extricatus, LLC
- Founder at RavenWhite
- Adjunct Associate Professor at IUB
- Past
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- Principal Research Scientist at RSA Labs
- Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
- Founder at Datopia
- Education
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- University of California, San Diego
- Lunds Tekniska Högskola
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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.
My Erdös number is 3.
Markus Jakobsson’s Specialties:
phishing and countermeasures, combined social and technical threats, protocol design, privacy, click-fraud, user interfaces, voting.
Markus Jakobsson’s Experience
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Co-founder
FatSkunk
(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
We deal with mobile malware in an entirely new way.
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Member of Fraud Advisory Board
LifeLock
(Privately Held; Consumer Services industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
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Member of Technical Advisory Board
CellFony
(Computer & Network Security industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
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Principal Scientist
Palo Alto Research Center
(Public Company; XRX; Computer Software industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
I am Principal Scientist at PARC, and a member of the security group. I am spending much time on understanding fraud, authentication and malware.
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co-founder
Extricatus, LLC
(Computer & Network Security industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
We develop educational material to promote better security decisions. Visit www.securitycartoon.com for an example of what we can do!
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co-founder
Extricatus, LLC
(Computer & Network Security industry)
2007 — Present (2 years )
We develop educational material to promote better security decisions. Visit www.securitycartoon.com for an example of what we can do!
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Founder
RavenWhite
(Computer & Network Security industry)
2005 — Present (4 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.
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Adjunct Associate Professor
IUB
(Computer & Network Security industry)
August 2004 — Present (5 years 4 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.
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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.
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Member of Technical Staff
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
(Public Company; LU; Computer & Network Security industry)
June 1997 — May 2000 (3 years )
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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
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University of California, San Diego
PhD , computer science , 1993 — 1997
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Lunds Tekniska Högskola
MSc (civilingenjor) , computer engineering (datateknik) , 1987 — 1992
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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.
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PARC: Palo Alto Research Center (was "Xerox PARC") -
Financial Services Technology Consortium
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