Cybersecurity: Why its hard, solutions, and careers

Rajeev Barua, University of Maryland.

The battle between cyber attackers and attack detection teams is an arms race that is not letting up. Attackers constantly devise new ways of exploiting system vulnerabilities, and new methods to hide from detection. In response, detection teams have responded with new technologies to detect attacks.

This talk will overview why cybersecurity is hard, the solutions available, and the latest industry trends, and it will discuss careers in cybersecurity in India and worldwide.

Dr. Rajeev Barua is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. He is also the Founder and CEO of SecondWrite Inc, which commercializes binary rewriting technology his research group developed at the university. He received his B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Delhi, and his Ph.D in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000. Dr. Barua’s research interests are in the areas of program analysis, cybersecurity, and Applied AI.

Dr. Barua is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2002, the UMD George Corcoran Award for teaching excellence in 2003, and the UMD Jimmy Lin Award for innovation in 2014. He has published over 70 academic papers and five issued patents. His company, SecondWrite, has raised over $2.4M in funding, including $1.3M in US governments SBIR grants, and the rest from professional private investors.