Seminar by Dr Raphael (Rafi) Yahalom, MIT, Cambridge, USA, 25 Nov 2024, RTP Harvard Room

Time: 25 Nov 2024, 2pm to 3pm

Venue: Research Techno Plaza, Level 2, Harvard Room

Title: Towards Risk-based Analysis of Digital Identities

Bio: Dr. Raphael (Rafi) Yahalom is an affiliated researcher at MIT Sloan School of Management and a senior advisor to leading organizations on emerging innovations in cybersecurity, cyber resiliency and risk management, and digital trust. Dr. Yahalom made various important foundational contributions to the field of information security and was the inventor of the influential “Yahalom Protocol” for authentication and key management, and the co-inventor of the “Gong-Needham-Yahalom Logic” for the analysis of security protocols. Dr. Yahalom was a cofounder and leader at Onaro, a successful infrastructure management software start-up that was acquired by Netapp and has been generating revenue of over $200 Million Dollars per year. Dr. Yahalom has obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University. He served in the Israeli Air-Force and Israeli Navy, and was a semi-professional basketball player in the Israel premier league.

 Abstract: The talk will focus on ongoing work on a new framework for analyzing digital identity life-cycle management schemes and deriving improved solutions. I will provide recent examples and incidents which demonstrate weaknesses in digital identity management and establish the need for better approaches and more effective analysis frameworks. I will present recent general results on cybersecurity analysis using data-driven cyber risk management methods. I will then outline the principles of a new a framework for systematic analysis of existing and emerging digital identity management solutions and the benefits of the new framework. I will conclude by outlining the relationship between the new framework and the future of digital identity, accountability, trust, and privacy.