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Gregory Falco, assistant professor of civil and systems engineering and a member of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy, speaks to his research efforts on spotting cyber vulnerabilities and defending against them in the Summer 2022 issue of JHU Engineering magazine. The full text of the article appears below. BY MICHAEL EISENSTEIN // ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAN PAGE Threats…

In advance of his book ‘Confronting Cyber Risk,’ engineer Gregory Falco discusses how and why organizations should incorporate cybersecurity into everyday business and planning In 2020, a hack believed to have been perpetrated by the Russian intelligence service compromised more than 100 clients of the SolarWinds network management company. Affected organizations included tech giants Microsoft,…

Gregory Falco, assistant professor in the department, recently contributed insight to the Safe Cities Index 2021. The Safe Cities Index 2021 is a report from The Economist Intelligence Unit, and is based on the fourth iteration of the index, which ranks 60 cities across 76 indicators covering digital, health, infrastructure, personal and environmental security. Findings…

As highly automated systems are becoming more and more popular, assurance challenges have become increasingly visible through high-profile crashes and incidents. In a recently published article for Nature Machine Intelligence, Gregory Falco, assistant research professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering and the Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), and a team of collaborators…

Gregory Falco, an assistant research professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering and a member of the Institute for Assured Autonomy, is part of a team recently awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a taxonomy for Artificial Intelligence risks that can be used to…