Security and Privacy

• Cryptography Research

  Our research is firmly grounded on the theoretical foundations of the field and builds on the theory to provide robust solutions to practical and applied security problems.

• Exploratory Computer Vision Group

  We work in a number of fields related to Computer Vision. In the security arena we specialize in biometrics, identifying people by their fingerprints or facial characteristics and studying the performance measures for similar systems.

• Global Security Analysis Lab (GSAL)

  GSAL was formed in 1995 to advance computer security expertise within IBM. The group became widely known as IBM's "ethical hackers," although system penetration is no longer the lab's primary focus.

• Principles and Methodologies in Computer Science

  Also known as the Theory Group, we explore foundational issues that confront the computing industry today. Because theory cuts across every aspect of computer science, it interacts with many other research teams.

• Secure Software and Services

  Focus is on developing security technologies, design methodologies, best practices and standards. The goal is to significantly raise the bar on the quality of security in products and services while simultaneously easing the overhead of developing and deploying secure solutions.

• SPARCLE (Server Privacy ARrchitecture and CapabiLity Enablement)

  Research aims at simplifying how people manage organizational policies across the enterprise, improving the quality of policy rules and enabling rules to be implemented via technology to ensure consistency, reliability and compliance.

• Journal Articles
• Selected Publications
  
• Innovation Matters index
• Innovation Matters: Research for Advancing Trusted Computing
• Open Collaborative Research: Security & Privacy (podcast)
• Attack on cyberspace: Why we have to defend ourselves against the inevitable (podcast)
• Why your wireless network needs a security policy (podcast)
• What will it take to defeat malware? (podcast)

News

• Improving university-industry research collaborations
  IBM expedites collaboration by diminishing complexity that stems from intellectual property issues.
  
• Innovation Matters at IBM Computer Science
  Article index. Find out what IBM researchers are doing to bring innovative ideas to some 30 computer science research areas.
  
• Teaching computers the art of bluffing (and other human strategies)
  The University of Alberta's Jonathan Schaeffer talks to IBM researchers about the way poker contributes to the art of managing risk. Podcast (6 min., 39 sec.)
  

• Computer Science

• Zurich Information Security Center (ZISC)

• Trust Establishment
• Wireless Network Security Auditing Tool