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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. He is a contributing editor to Technology Review.

In addition to his academic work, Garfinkel is a journalist and an 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[1] 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[2]. His article on the philosophical redefinition of truth in the Wikipedia world in Technology Review is quite noteworthy.

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[3].

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.[4]

In 2003 Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat published 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.[5]

In September 2006 Garfinkel joined the faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA as an Associate Professor of Computer Science.

Bibliography

Books

  • Lorrie Cranor and Garfinkel, Simson (2005). Security and Usability. O'Reilly and Associates.
  • Garfinkel, Simson and Beth Rosenberg (2005). RFID: Applications, Security and Privacy. Addison-Wesley.
  • Garfinkel, Simson and Gene Spafford and Alan Schwartz (2003). Practical UNIX and Internet Security, 3rd Edition. O'Reilly and Associates.
  • Garfinkel, Simson and Michael K. Mahoney (2002). Building Cocoa Applications : A Step by Step Guide. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 0-596-00235-1.
  • Garfinkel, Simson (2000). Database Nation; The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 0-596-00105-3. (review by Peter G. Neumann and review by Eugene Spafford, in the RISKS Digest)
  • Garfinkel, Simson (1999). "Architects of the Information Society.
  • Garfinkel, Simson and Alan Schwartz (1998). Stopping Spam. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 1-56592-388-X. (review by Rob Slade in the RISKS Digest)
  • Garfinkel, Simson with Eugene Spafford (1997). "Web Security and Commerce". O'Reilly and Associates.
  • Garfinkel, Simson and Eugene Spafford (1996). Practical UNIX and Internet Security. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 1-56592-148-8. (review by Peter G. Neumann in the RISKS Digest)
  • Garfinkel, Simson (1995). PGP: Pretty Good Privacy. O'Reilly and Associates. ISBN 1-56592-098-8.
  • Garfinkel, Simson, Daniel Weise, and Steven Strassmann (editors) (1994). UNIX-HATERS Handbook. IDG. ISBN 1-56884-203-1. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Garfinkel, Simson and Michael K. Mahoney (1993). NeXTStep Programming. The Electronic Library of Science. ISBN 0-387-97884-4.
  • Garfinkel, Simson and Eugene Spafford (1991). Practical UNIX and Security. O'Reilly and Associates.

Significant Articles

References

  1. ^ "Staff List," Technology Review.com, July 7, 2008 http://www.technologyreview.com/corp/staff.aspx
  2. ^ http://www.csoonline.com/marketing/awards
  3. ^ U.S. patent 7,023,854U.S. patent 6,993,661U.S. patent 6,744,864U.S. patent 6,678,270U.S. patent 6,490,349
  4. ^ Harvard CRCS
  5. ^ 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
  1. Schwartau, Winn (2003-05-03). "Sidestep the Data Storage Blues: An argument for sanitizing hard disks". MX Developers' Journal. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. CRCS Website
  3. NPS Computer Science Website

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