Phil Porras

Phil Porras is a Program Director of systems security research in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI International, and was a Principal Investigator for many research projects sponsored by DARPA, DoD, NSF, NSA, and others. Porras is the Principal Investigator of a large ARO-sponsored research program entitled Cyber-TA, which is developing new techniques to gather and analyze large-scale malware threat intelligence across the Internet. Previously, he was a manager in the Trusted Computer Systems Department of the Aerospace Corporation. He has participated on numerous program committees, and editorial boards, and on multiple commercial company technical advisory boards. He holds ten U.S. patents, and has been awarded Best Paper honors in 1995, 1999, and 2008.