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cofounder/ceo @getBastionZero. infrastructure security researcher and cs professor @BUCompSci boston university.
Jun 24, 2021 17 tweets 7 min read
The last bit of @devseccon is ongoing, go join! #DSC24

Or, just watch this 🎥or read this 🧵from my talk with @csoandy. We tell war stories of 5 watershed security incidents: FluffyBunny, Operation Aurora, DigiNotar, NotPetya and SolarWinds.

These are just some of incidents that inspired us to build @getBastionZero, which eliminates single points of compromise while providing zero-trust remote access to servers, containers and clusters. 2/x

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Feb 28, 2021 25 tweets 6 min read
My grandmother was one of these children. The stories my grandmother told me about her journey never really made sense, because she travelled so far. 🧵

“The children ... went via Bukhara to Kazan and Ashkhabad (on the Iranian border), and from there to Pahlavi.”

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Feb 26, 2020 22 tweets 11 min read
Hello #NDSS20! That keynote was a ton of work to prepare, so I thought I'd squeeze some extra value of by posting key points from the talk here!

Here we go!

(For those of you at home, NDSS is one of the "big four" top-tier academic cybersecurity conferences.)

<thread> The focus of my talk was technology transfer.

How can we align incentives in the academic community, to encourage researchers to design systems that actually get used in the real world?

This is a key question in 2020, where infosec is everywhere.

Nov 1, 2019 10 tweets 2 min read
Every year (since around 2012) in my network security class @BUCompSci, we’ve asked students to form groups and audit the security and privacy of a popular websites. 🕵️‍♂️

Things change from year to year. Here are my macro observations from this years projects. 👩‍🏫 1/n @BUCompSci Almost every site my students looked at, connects to Google, Facebook, or Twitter to track users in one form or other. 🎯 2/n