Markus Jakobsson

Markus Jakobsson

Principal Scientist, PARC; founder of RavenWhite; collaborator at www.SecurityCartoon.com

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Principal Scientist at Palo Alto Research Center
  • Founder at RavenWhite
  • Adjunct Associate Professor at IUB
Past
  • Principal Research Scientist at RSA Labs
  • Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
  • Founder at Datopia
Education
  • University of California, San Diego
  • Lunds Tekniska Högskola
Connections
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Industry
Computer & Network Security
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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. My students and I do consulting for the financial industry, allowing us to translate academic insights into better consumer products. My background also involves cryptographic protocol design, theoretical aspects of cryptography, incentive structures, lightweight cryptography and wireless security.

Markus Jakobsson’s Specialties:

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


Markus Jakobsson’s Experience

  • Principal Scientist

    Palo Alto Research Center

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

    October 2007Present (8 months)

    I am Principal Scientist at PARC, and a member of the security group. I am spending much time on password reset -- see Blue Moon Authentication http://I-forgot-my-password.com.

  • Founder

    RavenWhite

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

    2005Present (3 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.

  • Adjunct Associate Professor

    IUB

    (Educational Institution; Computer & Network Security industry)

    August 2004Present (3 years 10 months)

    IUB has 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. We are successfully building relationships with other universities, government agencies, corporate entities and trade groups. Given that most faculty members of the group joined in 2004, we have an unusually low student-to-faculty ratio, which translates into a very dynamic and personal feel.

  • Principal Research Scientist

    RSA Labs

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

    May 2000August 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 1997May 2000 (3 years)

  • Founder

    Datopia

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

    19851992 (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, 19931997

  • Lunds Tekniska Högskola

    MSc (civilingenjor), computer engineering (datateknik), 19871992


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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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