Software Assurance: The (only?) Way Ahead
Dr. Ramesh Bharadwaj
Abstract
The proliferation of code vulnerabilities in our software
infrastructure is increasingly being exploited by our adversaries to
compromise sensitive information, to conduct espionage, and for
criminal activity. The speaker argues that our nation cannot continue
to conduct business under the prevailing status quo, and makes a candid
assessment of why perfectly feasible technical solutions have not made
their way into practice.
Biography
Dr. Bharadwaj has been a researcher at Philips Research Laboratories,
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Stanford University,
Communications Research Laboratory, and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
He was an engineer on the world's first experimental satellite packet
switching network and was one of the first implementers of the Ethernet
standard in hardware. While at the National Center for Software
Technology in Bombay, Dr. Bharadwaj was a member of the group that was responsible
for bringing the Internet to India. He has also served as project manager
in Systems and Networking, having managed the design, development,
deployment, and maintenance of a private packet switching network serving more that
25 institutions in the US and the UK. He also managed the development of a
document transmission workstation for inter-library loans, which is in
use at more than 10,000 research libraries around the world (including NRL).
More recently, Dr. Bharadwaj has developed a secure middleware infrastructure
for Naval Command and Control applications. His research interests
include secure agents and agent based middleware, protocols for group
communication, and mathematics based methods and tools for software engineering.
Presentation
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