Uri Blumenthal

Uri Blumenthal
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cyber Systems and Technology Group
244 Wood Street
Lexington, MA 02420-9185
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fax:   781-981-0186
email: uri@ll.mit.edu

Mr. Blumenthal joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 2007 to work on securing communication protocols, computer applications, and infrastructures. His most recent professional activities at Lincoln Laboratory have focused on information assurance, in particular, identity management and access control in complex configurations, and integration of Net-Centric Enterprise Services into distributed application security architecture.

Earlier in 2007, Mr. Blumenthal worked on the security infrastructure at Bear Sterns, helping him appreciate requirements for better computer security in the financial industry.

In 2004 Mr. Blumenthal joined Intel to work on security issues. He helped to secure the first release of Active Management Technology (AMT), and worked on security of communication protocols for AMT, provisioning for AMT, and run-time protection capabilities of computing hardware. He was also involved in adding security functionality to virtualization.

In 2000 Mr. Blumenthal moved to Lucent/Bell Labs and joined the Wireless Security and Fraud Prevention Group, where he worked on security problems of cellular networks and was involved in 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards. He analyzed the performance impact of IPsec on wired and wireless Internet traffic.

In 1989 Mr. Blumenthal worked at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he implemented an AIX/370 driver for fiber optics channel that was later installed at CERN. From 1992 he got involved in network management and network security, and began participating at the Internet Engineering Task Force. In 1996 he co-founded and co-chaired an IRTF Research Group on Services Management. He also designed and developed SNMPv3 platform-independent multi-version protocol stack that tracked the evolving Internet Engineering Task Force SNMP standard, which became IBM code base for SNMP support in all corporate platforms. Besides network security/management, he was involved in cryptography research and published several papers on block ciphers and key schedules.

Mr. Blumenthal received the M.S. degree in applied mathematics at the Odessa State University in 1981.

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