Seminar by Dr Raphael (Rafi) Yahalom, MIT, Cambridge, USA, 17 Feb 2025, RTP Harvard Room

Time: 17 Feb 2025, 1pm to 2pm

Venue: Research Techno Plaza, Level 2, Harvard Room

Title: Reasoning about Risk and Trust in Digital Supply Chains

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 introduce emerging foundations for systematic analysis of risk and trust in digital supply chains. We will focus in particular on authorization chains, software update chains, and AI chains. We will demonstrate the benefits of the new framework in the context of recent high-profile incidents and discuss remaining challenges and future promising directions.