Eric Grosse

Eric Grosse is Vice President - Security Engineering at Google in Mountain View CA, leading a team of approximately 250 who ensure systems and data stay safe and users' privacy remains secure. Improved and wider use of SSL, stronger consumer authentication technology, detection and blocking of foreign espionage, transparency on government request for data, sophisticated malware analysis, tools and frameworks for safer building of web applications are among the achievements of the Google Security Team. Earlier he was a Fellow at Bell Labs in Murray Hill and before that a CS PhD at Stanford.