John Launchbury to Join DARPA as Program Manager

John Launchbury, Galois’ founder and former Chief Scientist, will be joining DARPA’s Information Innovation Office this summer as a program manager. In this position, Launchbury will be overseeing the existing High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) and Programming Computation on Encrypted Data (PROCEED) programs, as well as new projects still under development. Read more about the […]

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Interview: Crowd-sourcing Software Verification

Aaron Tomb recently gave an interview with the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) about what Galois is doing on DARPA’s Crowd Sourced Formal Verification (CSFV) program to crowd-source the problem of software verification. Read the article here: http://intelligence.org/2014/05/29/aaron-tomb/

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Galois’ Work for DARPA HACMS in the News

Galois continues to advance building secure, hack-proof critical flight control software in its work on SMACCMPilot, part of DARPA’s High Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) program. We demonstrated technology developed to-date under this program at DARPA I2O’s Demo Day on May 21 at the Pentagon. Read more about the program and what our team is doing in this article recently published […]

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Cryptol Version 2 Released (and open sourced!)

We are pleased to announce the open source release of Cryptol version 2.  Bugs in crypto code have been in the news lately – Cryptol helps developers detect (or avoid) correctness errors in cryptographic code. What Cryptol does is reduce the gap between the reference specification of a cryptographic algorithm and an executable version which […]

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Heartbleed: A great time to think about incident response

Heartbleed is the nickname of a dangerous OpenSSL vulnerability that was just announced. A security update was already available before the announcement, and this is definitely a vulnerability where quickly patching makes a big difference. A fast response matters here because malware wasn’t in the wild yet, so many sites likely can prevent any negative consequences […]

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Joe Kiniry Joins Galois as Principal Investigator

Joe Kiniry has recently joined Galois as a Principal Investigator. He was previously an academic in Europe for twelve years, most recently a Full Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. He has extensive experience in formal methods, high-assurance software engineering, foundations of computer science and mathematics, and information security. Specific areas that he has […]

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Galois and voidALPHA Produce Free Game for DARPA to Help Crowdsource Software Security

As part of DARPA’s Crowd Sourced Formal Verification (CSFV) program, Galois has partnered with game design and development experts voidALPHA to produce a free online formal verification game, StormBound. Formal verification is the most rigorous way to thwart attacks against IT systems and applications upon which military, government, and commercial organizations rely. Traditional formal methods, […]

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Rob Wiltbank Joins Galois, Inc. as CEO

Portland, Oregon (October 30, 2013) – Rob Wiltbank, Ph.D. has joined Galois as its CEO. Rob is widely recognized as a world expert in angel investing performance and entrepreneurial strategy. In his new role, Rob will drive strategy for Galois’ growth, oversee business operations and development, and help commercialize its technologies. “I’m tremendously pleased to […]

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FMCAD Conference in Portland, OR: October 20 – 23, 2013

This year’s Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) conference is being held from October 20 – 23 here in Portland, OR. Galois is proud to be one of the sponsors of this annual event – we’re excited to be having it in our own back yard! Dr. Lee Pike is on the program committee, and […]

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