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 at Harvard University. Garfinkel is regarded as a pioneer in the emerging field of HCISec.

In addition to his academic work, Garfinkel is a journalist and and entrepreneur.

As a journalist Garfinkel primarily covers the fields of computer security, privacy and information 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 of Martha's Vineyard Vineyard.NET. He holds several patents [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 from Columbia University in 1988; and a Ph.D. 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. [ [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] in IEEE 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 and Beth Rosenberg|title=RFID: Applications, Security and Privacy|publisher=Addison-Wesley|year=2005
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson and Gene Spafford and Alan Schwartz|year=2003|title=Practical UNIX and Internet Security, 3rd Edition|publisher=O'Reilly and Associates
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson and Michael 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] by Peter G. Neumann and [http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/20.79.html#subj7.1 review] by Eugene Spafford, in the RISKS 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] by Rob Slade in the RISKS Digest)
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson with Eugene Spafford|publisher=O'Reilly and Associates|year=1997|title="Web Security and Commerce"
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson and Eugene 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] by Peter G. Neumann in the RISKS 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, and Steven Strassmann (editors)|title=UNIX-HATERS Handbook|publisher=IDG|year=1994|id=ISBN 1-56884-203-1
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson and Michael K. Mahoney|title=NeXTStep Programming|publisher=The Electronic Library of Science|year=1993|id=ISBN 0-387-97884-4
*cite book|author=Garfinkel, Simson and Eugene Spafford|title=Practical UNIX and Security|publisher=O'Reilly and Associates|year=1991

ignificant 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 about AOHell, re-published in the RISKS 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]