Tools and frameworks for computer security alternatives

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Our society is heavily reliant on our computers, devices, and networks, but there are still any number of problems making our computers secure, even­ after decades of computer security research. Given the sheer volume of research in computer security, relatively little of it has translated into new, improved defenses that are deployed for the protection of end users. Arguably, computer users have seen stagnation or at best marginal improvements in their defenses, while at the same time the number of threats has increased dramatically. The long-­term goal of my research program is to find novel methods for security that break from this status quo, radically in some cases, to find entirely new alternatives to the current state of computer security that users experience, and make users more secure. Practically speaking, I will be realizing this long­-term goal through the construction of software tools and frameworks, meaning that the research work is not just seen in academic publications, but will result in software usable by others.