Faculty Fellow Sharon Goldberg Briefs Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus
University Provost, Jean Morrison, kicked off today’s Capitol Hill cybersecurity briefing by framing internet insecurity as a challenge that sits at the intersection of policy, education, and research. The panel, titled “The Other 95%: The Unsecure Internet You Don’t Know About,” featured panelists Sharon Goldberg, Hariri Faculty Fellow and associate professor of computer science; Joseph Hall, Chief Technologist for the Center for Democracy & Technology; and Joseph Calandrino, Policy Director for the Office of Technology Research and Investigation at the Federal Trade Commission. The discussion aimed to brief the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus on the true breadth of internet insecurity and what can (or can not) be done to fix it. A national expert of cybersecurity, Professor Goldberg focused her presentation on security risks posed by Border Gateway Protocol and Domain Name System manipulation.
Goldberg was selected as an Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall of 2012 and appointed as a Faculty Fellow in 2015. She joined Boston University’s Department of Computer Science in 2010. Her research focuses on the security and privacy of computer networks, combining formal techniques from cryptography and game theory with empire network data and large- scale simulations. She has served on working groups of the advisory council to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the security and reliability of telecommunications systems. Azer Bestavros, founding director of the Hariri Institute for Computing and professor of computer science at BU notes that Goldberg’s research has helped solidify ‘BU’s presence in cybersecurity.”
