Markus Jakobsson is a Principal Scientist at Palo Alto Research Center, and a co-founder of RavenWhite Inc and Extricatus LLC. He has previously been Principal Research Scientist at RSA Laboratories, Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Associate Professor at Indiana University, and Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University. He holds a PhD in computer science from University of California at San Diego. He is a member of the team behind SecurityCartoon, and of the PARC security group and is thinking a lot about password reset. (Why don't you try our demo and let me know what you think? )
An outline of the types of research I am interested in, with associated publications below, most downloaded marked with red.
| Fraud, phishing, pharming, crimeware | a socio-technical problem; how do we quantify, determine trends, develop countermeasures? |
| Education | technology is meaningless if not used correctly; messaging to uninterested users |
| User experiments | how can one test deceit hypotheses without being abusive, but still being accurate? |
| Wireless | incentives, cooperation, reputation, efficiency, attacks, analysis |
| Distributed computing | trustworthiness and availability |
| Privacy | understanding and implementing |
| Building blocks | and other stuff |