The Internet and the World Wide Web have brought many changes that provide huge benefits, in particular by giving people easy access to information that was previously unavailable, or simply hard to find. Unfortunately, these changes have raised many new challenges in the security of computer systems and the protection of information against unauthorized access and abusive usage. At Google, our primary focus is the user, and his/her safety. We have people working on nearly every aspect of security, privacy, and anti-abuse including access control and information security, networking, operating systems, language design, cryptography, fraud detection and prevention, spam and abuse detection, denial of service, anonymity, privacy-preserving systems, disclosure controls, as well as user interfaces and other human-centered aspects of security and privacy. Our security and privacy efforts cover a broad range of systems including mobile, cloud, distributed, sensors and embedded systems, and large-scale machine learning.
Recent publications
Reconciling Optimization With Secure Compilation
Proceedings of the ACM (PACMPL) (2021)
A Large Scale Study of Users Behaviors, Expectations and Engagement with Android Permissions
Usenix Security Symposium, Usenix, https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21 (2021)
Natural Language Understanding with Privacy-Preserving BERT
Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM (2021) (to appear)
FuzzBench: An Open Fuzzer Benchmarking Platform and Service
Proceedings of the 29th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA (2021)
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