Cybersecurity and Cyberbreaches
From electronic medical devices and health records to safety-critical automotive electronics and mission-critical cloud-hosted business applications and distributed databases, the stakes have never been higher for network/data security and privacy.
At Barr Group we have been in the business of designing secure computers since our founding and our staff includes world-leading cybersecurity experts and trainers. Our areas of expertise include:
- Symmetric and asymmetric (public key) encryption and decryption
- Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)
- Digital rights management (DRM) for software activation, e-books, etc.
- Privacy and cybersecurity of electronic voting systems (e-voting)
- Encryption and decryption algorithms such as DES, RSA, and AES
- User authentication and digital signatures
- Zero-knowledge tests and secure hashes (e.g., MD5)
- Firewalls and secure network protocols (TLS/SSL, SSH/SFTP, WAP/WEP)
- Biometric security, including fingerprints, retina scans, and facial recognition
- Computer viruses and other malware such as trojans and ransomware
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and other attacks
- Trusted computing modules like TPM and secure bootloaders
Barr Group's cybersecurity experts are familiar with all major operating systems--such as Linux/Android, iOS, and Windows--and programming languages, including Java, JavaScript, C/C++, C#, Objective-C, Python, Perl, PHP, and assembly.
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Expert Witness Services
Barr Group's computer security experts support plaintiffs and defendants in litigation in U.S. District Courts, at the International Trade Commission (ITC), and before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Our services include:
- Technical assistance with drafting of discovery requests
- Software source code review and analysis
- Source code comparisons for copyright and trade secret theft
- Prior art review for patent invalidity
- Reverse engineering of electronics and schematics review
- Forensic analysis of malware, including binary code disassembly
- Extraction of system logs and electronically-stored metadata
- Investigation of cyber attacks and data breaches
- Security audits and penetration testing
- Expert reports, declarations, and witness statements
- Testimony at deposition, oral hearings, and trials
Our experience with computer security litigation is extensive and includes electronics and source code analysis and testimony for a large number of cases in numerous U.S. District Courts and the Superior Court of Québec, including in relation to satellite TV hacking and signal interception.
Barr Group has a demonstrated ability to quickly activate one or more engineers to match the size, scope, and complexity of any project.
Further Reading
- Cybersecurity and Embedded Systems
- The State of Software Design for Safety and Security
- Security and the IoT
- To Err Is Human, To Err at Scale Is AI
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
Computer Security Expert Witness List
The following is a representative subset of Barr Group's experts who have experience designing and/or testifying about these technologies:
Former assistant professor of computer science who taught graduate courses in operating system and compiler design and later spent decades working in the design…
Consultant and subject matter expert in electronic payment systems with over three decades of experience with financial…
Former adjunct professor of computer engineering with more than twenty-five years of experience in the software industry, including over a decade spent…
Computer scientist educated at a leading research university, experienced in analyzing, architecting, designing, developing and optimizing service provider and…
An independent consultant with more than thirty-five years of industry experience in the area of smart card-based solutions for payments and digital security.
Professor of computer science and engineering with specialized technical expertise in operating systems, computer security, wireless communications, and network…
Former professor of electrical and computer engineering and independent consultant with significant expertise in the development of biometric…
Computer software and hardware design consultant with over three decades of industry experience. Has extensive experience with storage technology, including…
Professor of electrical and computer engineering and expert in architectural paradigms and technologies for high-performance computing and distributed computing.…
Principal Security Researcher and Senior Engineer with 20 years of hands-on experience in real-time embedded systems, custom network protocol development, and…