Dan Boneh is a professor whose main research area is applied cryptography and network security. His focus is on building security mechanisms that are easy to use and deploy. He developed new mechanisms for improving web security, file system security, and copyright protection. Dr. Boneh contributed to the security and performance of the RSA cryptosystem and contributed to the study of cryptographic watermarking.

Neil Daswani is a co-founder of Dasient, Inc., a new stealth-mode Internet security company backed by some of the most influential investors in Silicon Valley. In the past, Neil has served in a variety of research , development, teaching, and managerial roles at Google, Stanford University, DoCoMo USA Labs, Yodlee, and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies). While at Stanford, Neil cofounded the Stanford Center for Professional Development (SCPD) Security Certification Program (http://scpd.stanford.edu/computerSecurity).

His areas of expertise include security, wireless data technology, and peer-to-peer systems. He has published extensively in these areas, frequently gives talks at industry and academic conferences, and has been granted several U.S. patents.

He received a Ph.D. and a master's in computer science from Stanford University, and earned a bachelor's in computer science with honors with distinction from Columbia University.

Neil is also the lead author of Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs To Know (published by Apress; ISBN 1590597842; http://tinyurl.com/33xs6g ). More information about Neil is available at http://www.neildaswani.com.

Meet the Instructor: A conversation with Neil Daswani (since this interview session took place, Neil Daswani has moved on to Dasient, Inc.)

Instructor's Blog Link

Emerging Security Vulnerabilities & the Impact to Business

John Mitchell has research interests in Computer security: access control, network protocols, and software system security; Programming languages, type systems, object systems, and formal methods; Applications of mathematical logic to computer science. Dr. Mitchell has a B.S. degree from Stanford University and a M.S. and Ph.D. degree from MIT.