James is an IT Security Specialist with Tekla Research at the Navy Research Laboratory. Based out of Washington, DC, James and his team are responsible for “breaking” new electronic inventions to find their communication weaknesses. The research scientists then use this data to strengthen the device.
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>> OK. My name is James Goldsmith and I'm an information technology security specialist. I work at Navy Research Lab as a contractor from Tekla Research. So, my role at Navy Research Lab is quite diverse. One of the aspects of the objects that I perform is security defense or security specialist for computers in the next defendable arena, if you will. So, I take a computer and they create a new facet or software for the future and then I try to break that. And then through breaking it, we can discover how to make it stronger so that when it gets implemented or deployed to the services, they're able to actually use it without being hacked or corrupted through other means. So, through computer hardening, we assess the different vulnerabilities that the computer may have and then we try to lock that down at the same time allowing enough operations for the scientist to continue his research.
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