Amir HerzbergProfessor

Research Areas:
I am interested in security and privacy of networked systems. Security and privacy may be breached in many ways - it only takes one weak link to break the chain. I want to understand different threats and tools, and combine analysis and proofs with implementations, economics, and even human, legal, ethical and psychological aspects. Specific areas:

Internet security: infrastructure (routing, DNS, DoS) and applications (web, phishing).

Applied provable cryptography, esp. of applied cryptographic protocols, PKI, and resiliency to exposures and to cryptanalysis.

Privacy, anonymity and covert communication.

Security of systems interacting with humans: social-engineering, phishing and other attacks exploiting human behaviors, and usable security defenses.

Financial cryptography, i.e., using cryptography to innovate financial systems, protocols and networks.

Security for IoT and other emerging networks (e.g., of sensors, drones, stealthy-bots).