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Patrick Crowley

Technical Leader

Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud

Patrick Crowley leads engineering for Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud.

Patrick joined Cisco in 2017 with the acquisition of Observable Networks, where he was founder and CTO. Patrick is also Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Articles

February 1, 2018

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SECURITY

TLS 1.3 and Forward Secrecy: Count Us In, and Here’s Why

The damage a hacker can do after discovering a server’s private encryption key is about to shrink considerably. That’s thanks to important improvements in the coming Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Transport Layer Security (TLS) standard for Internet security. Notably, while prior versions ha…