Dr. Radu Sion is the CEO of Private Machines Inc, the Director of the National Security Institute, and a Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University (on leave).
Radu’s work is in Cyber Security and Large Scale Computing. He has published 100+ peer reviewed works in top venues, and has organized 65+ conferences. Dr. Sion has received the National Science Foundation CAREER award for his work on cloud computing security. Radu has worked with and received funding from numerous industry and government partners, including the US Air Force, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the US Army, the Intelligence ARPA, the Office of Naval Research, Northrop Grumman, IBM, NOKIA, Motorola, Xerox Parc, Microsoft, SAP, CA Technologies, the National Science Foundation, and many others.
Radu is currently leading Private Machines Inc, a cyber security startup designing the next generation secure cloud computing technologies. Our mission is to create and bring to users technology that is secure, hype-free, and easy to use.
Private Machines’ unique patent-pending technology protects cloud and data center workloads. Data and computation are encrypted even during processing. Keys never leave your premises and you remain in full control. Unauthorized parties and the cloud itself cannot access data and computation, even with physical access and even when compelled. The cloud becomes a secure extension of your enterprise.