Interview with Paul Black of NIST

Published: May 27, 2016, 8:23 p.m.

Host Kevin Greene and guest Paul Black, computer scientist at National Institute of Standards and Technology, discuss the potential impact of Underwriters Laboratories, or UL, certification and assessment for cybersecurity technologies. Black also talks about the role of \u201cformal methods\u201d \u2014 referring to mathematical techniques that are used in the design, implementation and testing of complex systems \u2014 in our modern software world and discusses various projects at NIST to help improve software security.