Howard Lipson
senior member of the technical staff
Survivable Systems Engineering Team
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contact:
CERTŪ
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
[412] 268-7237
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bio
Howard F. Lipson is a senior member of the technical staff in the CERT
Program at the SEI. Lipson has been a computer security researcher at CERT
for more than fourteen years. He is also an adjunct professor in Carnegie
Mellon University's Department of Engineering and Public Policy. He has
played a major role in extending security research at the SEI and CMU into
the new realm of survivability, developing many of the foundational
concepts and definitions, and making key contributions to the creation of
new survivability methodologies. Lipson has been a chair of three IEEE
Information Survivability Workshops. His research interests include the
foundational concepts of survivability, the analysis and design of
survivable systems and architectures, survivable systems simulation,
critical infrastructure protection (specifically the electric power grid),
and the technical and public policy aspects of Internet traceability and
anonymity. He is co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation
award to investigate "Secure and Robust IT Architectures to Improve the
Survivability of the Power Grid."
Lipson's early research at CMU included detailed workflow analyses of the
incident response and vulnerability handling activities at the CERT/CC. He
later designed and developed tools to automate and improve key aspects of
the incident response and security advisory processes. His work was
recognized as a primary factor in the CERT/CC's ability to sustain its
effectiveness in the face of the rapid growth of the Internet.
Prior to joining CMU, Lipson was a systems design consultant, helping to
manage the complexity and improve the usability of leading-edge software
systems. Earlier, he was a computer scientist at AT&T Bell Labs, where he
did exploratory development work on programming environments, executive
information systems, and integrated network management tools. Lipson holds
a PhD in computer science from Columbia University. He is a member of the
IEEE and the ACM.
research interests
Lipson's research interests include the
foundational concepts of survivability, the analysis and design of
survivable systems and architectures, survivable systems simulation,
critical infrastructure protection (specifically the electric power grid),
and the technical and public policy aspects of Internet traceability and
anonymity.
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