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Nation's cybersecurity reliant upon DHS Scholars & Fellows

 (Dec. 6, 2006)

    As with the future of homeland security, the future of cybersecurity depends upon the capabilities of current Scholars and Fellows and Program alumni. Below are seven of our talented students and alumni:
     Joe Calandrino (at left) – Privacy-preserving data retrieval may be one way to describe the research of Calandrino (at left), a 2005 Fellow earning a PhD in computer science at Princeton. Thwarting or responding to terrorism threats or pandemic outbreaks may require personal data. Calandrino works to allow extraction of desirable information from such data without violating privacy.     

    Barry Rozen – An alumnus of the DHS Scholars and Fellows Program, Rozen, a 2004 Scholar, works as a cybercrime analyst for a law firm. He uses computer forensics to uncover digital evidence and also procures private data through online investigations to aid murder investigations, matrimonial cases involving cheating spouses, and the locating of individuals around the world.
     Mark Lodato – While a 2004 Scholar at Lafayette College, Lodato researched Web site cryptoanalysis, finding and fixing chinks in the online armor of network security systems. Lodato is now a programmer at a company that develops surveillance and image recognition software for security and behavior analysis.
     Martin Casado – As a 2004 Fellow, Casado studies computer science at Stanford University, researching the redesign of enterprise network architectures to ensure that security is a fundamental design requirement. He has found that current networks have often incorporated security as an afterthought, making them difficult to manage and secure.
     Jason Franklin – As a 2005 DHS Fellow, Franklin focuses upon methods for users to directly receive security guarantees from today’s computing machines. His research efforts at Carnegie Mellon University will allow users to run a Web browser and receive a guarantee that no other programs or spyware are operating in the background and stealing personal data.
     Andrew Williams – Focused upon identifying, isolating and containing security breaches in networked systems, Williams, a 2005 Fellow studying at Carnegie Mellon, sees many direct applications such as operation of those systems as a distributed process on a network, automatically identifying and defending the network (Read more about Andrew’s summer internship experience at the Office of Intelligence and Analysis in the November 2006 DHS Network newsletter).
     Dan Wendlandt – With so much of our knowledge-based economy and military based upon the Internet, the work of Wendlandt, a 2005 Fellow and PhD candidate at Carnegie Mellon is vital. His research investigates Internet security solutions to make core components of the Internet more robust to attacks and more able to support mission critical services.