Chrome Health: The Art & Science of Software Security

Thursday, April 30, 2015
12:30 pm
Parisa Tabriz

Sponsored by the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.

Chrome is a browser built for the modern web and driven by three guiding principles: speed, simplicity, and security. This talk will focus on Chrome’s approach to the latter while highlighting parallels between software security and medicine. I’ll review Chrome’s vitals and architecture, some of our healthy engineering habits, facets of our software immune response, genetic susceptibility to insecurity (and how we manage risk), and more. You’ll leave with a better understanding of Chrome and probably a few bits of trivia about human health.

Parisa Tabriz is Google’s security princess — that's her official (and self-appointed) job title! She leads the Chrome security team of hired hackers and is a contractor with the U.S. Digital Service. This team of “hired hackers” conducts security design and code reviews, builds and enhances Google technology to make secure development possible and easy, conducts security engineering training, and does vulnerability response.

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March 26, 2015