Daniel M. Perry

Daniel M. Perry is an associate technical staff member in the Secure Resilient Systems and Technology Group. He is passionate about developing innovative methods to increase the security of a system while minimally impacting its usability. His work focuses on evaluating and augmenting the resilience of existing software tools. Perry’s current research involves investigating the gullibility of network monitoring utilities and analyzing the implications of debloating software on its security, functionality, and performance.

Perry earned an ME degree in computer science from Cornell University, where he completed research on disaggregated memory architectures. He also received BS degrees in computer science and in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell.  Before joining Lincoln Laboratory, Perry worked in the High-Performance Computing Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he developed and managed distributed file systems.