Garfinkel, Simson

Autor: Garfinkel, Simson

Biogr./Hist. údaje: Americký specialista v oboru informačních technologií, počítačový odborník, věnuje se především počítačové bezpečnosti. Publikuje ve svém oboru.
Zdroj: Autoritní databáze Národní knihovny ČR

Simson L. Garfinkel joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersberg, Maryland, in January 2015 as Senior Advisor, Information Access Division. His current research includes privacy and data de-identification.Garfinkel was formerly an Associate Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California from 2006 to January 2015. Garfinkel is regarded as a leader in the fields of digital forensics and usable security. In addition to his academic work, Garfinkel is a journalist, an entrepreneur, and an inventor; his work in all three is concerned with computer security, privacy, and information technology.Garfinkel is the author or co-author of 14 books, and the author of more than a thousand articles. He is a contributing writer for Technology Review and has written as a freelancer for many publications including Wired magazine, The Boston Globe, Privacy Journal and CSO Magazine. His work for CSO Magazine earned him five regional and national journalism awards, including the Jesse H. Neal Business Journalism Awards in 2003 and 2004.As an entrepreneur, Garfinkel founded Vineyard.NET, an Internet service provider on Martha's Vineyard, and Sandstorm Enterprises, a computer security firm that develops advanced computer forensic tools used by businesses and governments to audit their systems. Garfinkel holds six patents, mostly in the field of computer security.Garfinkel obtained three SB degrees from MIT in 1987; a MS in journalism from Columbia University in 1988; and a PhD in computer science from MIT in 2005. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University from September 2005 through August 2008. In 2012 he was named a Fellow of the ACM. Today Garfinkel lives in Arlington, Virginia.