Richard Carback, PhD UMBC CS 2010
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12:00noon–1pm
Friday, February 12, 2021
remotely via WebEx: umbc.webex.com/meet/sherman
A recording of the talk can be found here.
Abstract:
This talk will explore the technology and lessons learned by UMBC alumnus Richard Carback from his experience co-founding and closing the security startup Lexumo, which provided the only automated service that continuously monitors IoT software platforms for the latest public vulnerabilities. In addition to covering some of the hard problems and Lexumo’s technical approach for monitoring all the world’s open source software to assist companies in managing their vulnerabilities, Dr. Carback will discuss the mistakes and complexities getting funded, delivering a product, and finding customers.
About the Speakers:
Dr. Richard Carback Dr. Carback is a UMBC Alumnus (CS PhD, 2010) who is an entrepreneur who currently runs a private consultancy for computer security, computer forensics, cryptography, and smart contracts. He is a privacy-preserving systems expert with a background in elections and anonymity networks. While the group leader for the embedded systems security group at Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, he spun out an IoT vulnerability startup called Lexumo that provided the only automated service that continuously monitored IoT software platforms for the latest public vulnerabilities. At UMBC, he worked with Alan Sherman on secure elections, and was the primary researcher behind Takoma Park’s deployment of the Scantegrity voting system, the first usage of voter-verifiable end-to-end election technology in a municipal election.
Email: rick.carback@gmail.com
Host:
Alan T. Sherman, sherman@umbc.edu
Support for this event was provided in part by the National Science Foundation under SFS grant DGE-1753681.