- Simson Garfinkel
Simson L. Garfinkel is an Associate Professor at the
Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and an Associate of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences atHarvard University . Garfinkel is regarded as a pioneer in the emerging field ofHCISec .In addition to his academic work, Garfinkel is a
journalist and andentrepreneur .As a journalist Garfinkel primarily covers the fields of
computer security ,privacy andinformation technology . He has written 14 books, is a contributing writer for "Technology Review " ["Staff List," Technology Review.com, July 7, 2008 http://www.technologyreview.com/corp/staff.aspx] and has written as a freelancer for "Wired magazine ", "The Boston Globe ", and "CSO Magazine ", among other publications. His work for "CSO Magazine" earned him the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Business Journalism Award in 2003 and 2004 [http://www.csoonline.com/marketing/awards] .Garfinkel is a founder of
Sandstorm Enterprises , a computer security firm that develops advanced computer forensic tools used by businesses and governments to audit their systems. He is also the founder ofMartha's Vineyard Vineyard.NET. He holds severalpatent s [US Patent|7023854US Patent|6993661US Patent|6744864US Patent|6678270US Patent|6490349] .= Academics =Garfinkel obtained three S.B. degrees from MIT in 1987; a M.S. in
journalism fromColumbia University in 1988; and a Ph.D. incomputer science from MIT in 2005. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Research on Computation and Society atHarvard University from September 2005 through August 2008. [ [http://crcs.seas.harvard.edu/ Harvard CRCS ] ]In 2003 Garfinkel and
Abhi Shelat published [http://www.simson.net/clips/academic/2003.IEEE.DiskDriveForensics.pdf an article] inIEEE Security & Privacy Magazine reporting on an experiment in which they purchased 158 used hard drives from a variety of sources and checked to see whether they still contained readable data. Roughly one third of the drives appeared to have information that was highly confidential and should have been erased prior to the drive's resale.In 2006, Garfinkel introduced
Cross-Drive Analysis , an unsupervised machine learning algorithm for automatically reconstructing social networks from hard drives and other kinds of data carrying devices that are likely to contain pseudo-unique information. [ Garfinkel, S., "Forensic Feature Extraction and Cross-Drive Analysis," Digital Investigation, Volume 3, Supplement 1, September 2006, Pages 71--81. http://www.simson.net/clips/academic/2006.DFRWS.pdf]In September 2006 Garfinkel joined the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA as an Associate Professor of Computer Science.
= Bibliography =
Books
*cite book|author=
Lorrie Cranor and Garfinkel, Simson|title=Security and Usability|year=2005|publisher=O'Reilly and Associates
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson andBeth Rosenberg |title=RFID: Applications, Security and Privacy|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=2005
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson andGene Spafford andAlan Schwartz |year=2003|title=Practical UNIX and Internet Security, 3rd Edition|publisher=O'Reilly and Associates
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson andMichael K. Mahoney |title=Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guide|publisher=O'Reilly and Associates |year=2002|id=ISBN 0-596-00235-1
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson|title=Database Nation; The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century|publisher=O'Reilly and Associates |year=2000|id=ISBN 0-596-00105-3 ( [http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.77.html#subj12 review] byPeter G. Neumann and [http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.79.html#subj7.1 review] byEugene Spafford , in theRISKS Digest )
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson|title="Architects of the Information Society|year=1999
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson and Alan Schwartz|title=Stopping Spam|publisher=O'Reilly and Associates |year=1998|id=ISBN 1-56592-388-X ( [http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.17.html#subj7.1 review] byRob Slade in theRISKS Digest )
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson withEugene Spafford |publisher=O'Reilly and Associates |year=1997|title="Web Security and Commerce"
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson andEugene Spafford |title=Practical UNIX and Internet Security|publisher=O'Reilly and Associates |year=1996|id=ISBN 1-56592-148-8 ( [http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/18.13.html#subj1.2 review] byPeter G. Neumann in theRISKS Digest )
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson|title=PGP: Pretty Good Privacy|publisher=O'Reilly and Associates |year=1995|id=ISBN 1-56592-098-8
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson,Daniel Weise , andSteven Strassmann (editors)|title=UNIX-HATERS Handbook |publisher=IDG |year=1994|id=ISBN 1-56884-203-1
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson andMichael K. Mahoney |title=NeXTStep Programming|publisher=The Electronic Library of Science |year=1993|id=ISBN 0-387-97884-4
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson andEugene Spafford |title=Practical UNIX and Security|publisher=O'Reilly and Associates |year=1991ignificant Articles
*cite conference|author=Garfinkel, Simson and Robert C. Miller| url=http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2005proceedings/p13-garfinkel.pdf | title=Johnny 2: A User Test of Key Continuity Management with S/MIME and Outlook Express|booktitle=Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security|year=2005|pages=
*cite news|url=http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/17.10.html#subj3|title=AOHell|first=Simson|last=Garfinkel|publisher=The Boston Globe|date=1995-04-21 (an article aboutAOHell , re-published in theRISKS Digest )= References =
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# [http://crcs.seas.harvard.edu/people/ CRCS Website]
# [http://www.nps.navy.mil/cs/ NPS Computer Science Website]= External links =
* [http://www.simson.net Simson Garfinkel's home page] , including biographical information, his CV and current research projects.
* [http://www.vineyard.net Vineyard.NET home page]
* [http://www.sandstorm.net Sandstorm Enterprises home page]
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