{"id":18331,"date":"2020-03-25T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=18331"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:03","slug":"data-security-for-a-safer-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/03\/25\/data-security-for-a-safer-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Data security for a safer world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gathering on the central campus diag in Ann Arbor, MI on September 11, 2012 for a candlelight vigil honoring the memory of those who died in the tragedy 11 years ago. (Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications Marketing)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

9\/11 changed everything for U-M computer engineering alum Kurt Rohloff<\/strong>. Having grown up in the metro New York City, 9\/11 felt especially close to home. It set him on a path to a career in security and U.S. defense<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI got really interested in the areas of data science, analytics, privacy and how one could use privacy technology to enable free speech,\u201d Rohloff says. \u201cFor example, a journalist sharing information in places where there\u2019s a repressive government. Also, how we can use data science and data analytics to understand the impacts of policy decisions and things like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2014, he co-founded the PALISADE open-source homomorphic encryption software library, now widely used in the defense industry, and he led the defense industry consortium that originally developed it. In 2017, Rohloff co-founded Duality Technologies where he currently serves as CTO. Duality is a data security company that addresses the need of enterprises to collaborate on sensitive data. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

9\/11 changed everything for U-M computer engineering alum Kurt Rohloff. Having grown up in the metro New York City, 9\/11 felt especially close to home. It set him on a path to a career in security and U.S. defense. \u201cI got really interested in the areas of data science, analytics, privacy and how one could use privacy technology\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,27],"tags":[631,178,43,121,23],"class_list":["post-18331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","category-safe-computing","tag-alumni","tag-business","tag-data","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/911-memorial-e1585691917741.jpg",600,380,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/911-memorial-200x127.jpg",200,127,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/911-memorial-300x190.jpg",300,190,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/911-memorial-768x486.jpg",665,421,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/911-memorial-700x443.jpg",600,380,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/911-memorial-1536x972.jpg",1536,972,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/911-memorial-e1585691917741.jpg",600,380,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/911-memorial-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/911-memorial-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/911-memorial-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/911-memorial-665x421.jpg",665,421,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/911-memorial-e1585691917741.jpg",395,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"9\/11 changed everything for U-M computer engineering alum Kurt Rohloff. Having grown up in the metro New York City, 9\/11 felt especially close to home. It set him on a path to a career in security and U.S. defense. \u201cI got really interested in the areas of data science, analytics, privacy and how one could…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18336,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18331\/revisions\/18336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}