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
Improving Differentially Private Models with Active Learning
arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.01177 (2019)
If It’s Not Secure, It Should Not Compile: Preventing DOM-Based XSS in Large-Scale Web Development with API Hardening
Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '21), IEEE (2021) (to appear)
Interactive Proofs for Social Graphs
Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2020 - 40th Annual International Cryptology Conference,, Springer, Santa Barbara, CA, USA,, pp. 574-601
PriSEC: A Privacy Settings Enforcement Controller
30th USENIX Security Symposium (2021)
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