Dr. Herzberg is the Comcast professor for Cybersecurity Innovation in the school of computing of the university of Connecticut. His research areas include internet security, applied cryptography, privacy and anonymity, human-centered security, security for cyber-physical systems, and social, economic and legal aspects of security.
Dr. Herzberg earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1991 from the Technion in Israel. From 1991 to 1995, he worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he was a research staff member and the manager of the Network Security research group. From 1996 to 2000, Dr. Herzberg was a research group manager at the IBM Haifa Research Lab. From 2002 to 2017, he was a professor in Bar Ilan University (Israel). Since 2017, he is professor at University of Connecticut.
Dr. Herzberg is the author of numerous papers and patents in different areas of cybersecurity, and of the textbook `Applied Introduction to Cybersecurity and Cryptography’. Dr. Herzberg is an associate editor of ACM TOPS and serves on the steering board of CANS. Previously, he served as a program chair for IEEE CNS’19 and as an editor of PoPETS and ACM TISSEC. He delivered multiple keynotes and tutorials, and served in program committee of different conferences. Dr. Herzberg is recipient of the Internet Society's Applied Networking Research award, 2017.