April 13, 2026
12:00 – 1:00 PM EST
Speaker:
Andrew Ruef
PhD, University of Maryland
Talk Title:
How Does Financial Innovation Create New Security Vulnerabilities?
Abstract:
There are many problems with authorization despite it being a fundamental implementation issue in practical computer security. Many issues are solved by the notion of capabilities – how could we bring this to arbitrary web applications? In this talk we’ll demonstrate and sketch a system that integrates capabilities and a data policy language into web applications that can use the postgreSQL database library.
Bio:
Andrew has a PhD from the University of Maryland advised by Mike Hicks and used to work at NSA.