Technical Advisory Board

Arxan Technologies, Inc.

The Arxan Technical Advisory Board is comprised of knowledgeable experts in information security and assurance. They provide technical guidance to Arxan's product road map and research and development efforts. The current Technical Advisory Board includes:

 

Dr. Mike Atallah

Dr. Atallah is a co-founder of Arxan Inc. and is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He also serves as Chief Scientist for Arxan Defense Systems, Inc. Dr. Atallah joined the Computer Sciences Department at Purdue University immediately upon obtaining his Ph.D., and has been with Purdue since then. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1986, to Full Professor in 1989, and to Distinguished Professor in 2004.

Dr. Atallah's current research interests are in information security. He received a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1985. A Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE, he has served on the editorial boards of many journals, and was selected to serve on the Program Committees of many top conferences and workshops. Dr. Atallah was Keynote and Invited Speaker at many national and international meetings, and a speaker in the Distinguished Colloquium Series of many top Computer Science Departments. He was selected in 1999 as one of the best teachers in the history of Purdue University and included in Purdue's Book of Great Teachers, a permanent wall display of Purdue's best teachers past and present.

John T. (Tim) Korb

Dr. Korb is one of Arxan's three scientists. He joined the Purdue Computer Science faculty 1981 and now serves as Assistant Head for the department. Dr. Korb is responsible for the oversight and direction of the departmental computing facilities. He also serves on various campus-wide computing and networking committees, and represents the department at corporate and government events and activities. Recipient of the Outstanding Teacher in the School of Science award, he developed and taught a new undergraduate course in Programming Languages and recently taught the undergraduate Compiler course. He participates in a number of research projects. His research interests include programming languages, networking, databases, operating systems, and information security.

Before coming to Purdue, Dr. Korb worked at Xerox Corporation with their Palo Alto Advanced Systems Development group and was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Arizona. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and Phi Beta Kappa.

Dr. Korb received his Ph.D. and MS from the University of Arizona and his BS from Arizona State University.

 

Eugene Spafford

Eugene H. Spafford is a professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue University. He is also a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy appointment), Philosophy (courtesy), a professor of Communication (courtesy),  and is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security. CERIAS is a campus-wide multi-disciplinary Center, with a broadly-focused mission to explore issues related to protecting information and information resources. 

Professor Spafford and his students are credited with a number of security "firsts," including the first open security scanner, the first widely-available intrusion detection tool, the first integrity-based control tool, the first multistage firewall, the first formal bounds on intrusion detection, the first reference model of firewalls, and some of the first work in vulnerability classification databases. Much of the current security product industry can therefore be viewed as based, in part, on his past research; some of his ideas directly led to the establishment of two commercial firms: Tripwire and Signacert.  His current research is directed towards issues of public policy and information security, architecture and construction of highly-secure systems, and cyberforensic technologies.

Dr. Spafford is a Fellow of the ACM, Fellow of the AAAS, Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the (ISC)^2, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the ISSA.  He was the year 2000 recipient of the NIST/NCSC National Computer Systems Security Award, generally regarded as the field's most significant honor in information security research.  He has received all three of Purdue's highest recognitions for teaching: the "Charles B. Murphy" award, named as a Fellow of the Purdue Teaching Academy, and named to the "Book of Great Teachers."  Among other honors, he has been elected to the ISSA Hall of Fame, awarded the William Hugh Murray medal of the NCISSE. recognized with an Air Force medal for Meritorious Civilian Service, awarded the IEEE Computer Society's Taylor Booth medal, received ACM SIGCAS's "Making a Difference" award, given the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Achievement Award, and received ACM SIGSAC's "Outstanding Contribution" award. In 2007 he was honored with the rarely-given ACM President's Award, and in 2008 with the prestigious CRA Distinguished Service Award.

Among his many current activities, Spaf is chair of the ACM's U.S. Public Policy Council (USACM), is a member of the USAF Air University Board of Visitors, and is editor-in-chief of Computers & Security, the oldest journal in information security.

Professor Spafford received his MS and Ph.D. from Georgia Tech, and his BA degree and an honorary D.Sc. from the SUNY College at Brockport.