Paul (Tony) Watson
- Research Area(s)
- Security, Privacy and Abuse Prevention
- Software Systems
- Networking
A generally nice fellow with an passionate interest and extensive career in
information technology and computer security. Paul Watson is currently employed as an
network security engineer with Google. He has over 20 years of experience in the
information technology area, including 18 years focused on information security.
During his career, he has presided over 3 start-ups, as well as having been employed
by such distinguished organizations as the U.S. Air Force, Iridium LLC, CapitalOne
Financial, VeriSign, Rockwell, and Google. Watson has accumulated a wide area of
technical expertise throughout his career and has authored and presented several
talks, papers, and training classes on information security topics. Watson is a
co-recipient of the MIT Brunnell award for macro engineering for efforts on the
development of the U.S. Air Force Command Tactical Information System, the
Smithsonian science award for his work with the Iridium project, as well as a 2010
Google Founders award. Personal Webpages: paw.org
terrorist.net
Google Publications
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Cross Platform Network Access Control
RVASec 2013, RVASec 2013, RIchmond, VA
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Blackhat USA (2011) (to appear)
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E Unum Pluribus - Google Network Filtering Management
Paul (Tony) Watson, Peter Moody
LISA'09 23rd Large Installation System Administration Conference (2009)
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Cygnus - An Approach for Large Scale Network Security Monitoring
Syscan 2004, Singapore
