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Gregory Falco
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About the Author
Gregory Falco is a Research Fellow with the Belfer Center’s Cyber Security
Project at Harvard Kennedy School. He received his PhD in Cybersecu-
rity from MIT’s Computer Science and Artifcial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL) and earned his master’s degree from Columbia University and
undergraduate degree from Cornell University. He is an expert in Indus-
trial Internet of Tings (IIoT) cyber-physical system security.His research
focuses on analyzing cyber risk to critical infrastructure using AI plan-
ning, data science and qualitative methods. Much of his work has focused
on the security of smart cities’ industrial control systems used in critical
infrastructure including electric grids, water networks and transportation
systems. He has pioneered the feld of Defensive Social Engineering—a
toolbox of non-technical defenses that employs social engineering methods
against hackers.
Greg is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University where he teaches
classes on machine learning, big data and smart cities. He is also the
Co-founder and CEO of NeuroMesh, an IoT managed security and end-
point protection company that is piloting its technology with major utilities
to secure the routing and smart metering infrastructure of the Smart Grid.
Previously, Greg has worked as a security researcher for NASA’s Jet Pro-
pulsion Laboratory on cutting edge AI-based risk assessment for mission
critical IoT and was an executive at Accenture where he founded the Smart
City Strategy Division. He will begin his postdoctoral studies at Stanford
University in the Fall where he will teach courses on Cyber Risk.。