Dirk Balfanz Computer Science Lab Palo Alto Research Center Palo Alto, California

Dirk joined the Palo Alto Research Center in 2001 after receiving his PhD from Princeton University for work on distributed systems security. Dirk is interested in end-to-end security, which means the correct interplay of human factors, systems security, and cryptography in distributed systems such as the Internet. Most recently he has focused on usability issues for securing computer networks.