IBM's Research Division is pursuing many exciting topics in the areas of network and computer security in its labs around the world.
Projects
- 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.
- Secure Systems
Main focus is on platform security. Team members have been working on a variety of topics, including secure hypervisors, physically secure coprocessors (4758/4764), secure operating systems (LSM), embedded operating systems, TCPA/TCG Linux support, policy verification (SELinux), personal firewalls, secure service processors and secure applications.
- 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.
Publications and presentations
- 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)
Last updated on November 18, 2008