Parisa Grayeli

Paul Watrobski is a reliability engineering PhD student at the University of Maryland (UMD). He has been studying the firmware update and vulnerability cycles of IoT devices to perform an empirical risk analysis. Prior to UMD, Paul earned a BS in computer engineering and MS in electrical engineering from Binghamton University with a thesis focused on network protocol reverse engineering. His current research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is focused on IoT security and privacy. At NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence he has been working on a project focused on mitigating IoT-based DDoS attacks using MUD. He developed an open-source tool, MUD-PD, to make it easier for IoT manufacturers to create the files necessary to enable MUD on their devices.