Michael Dalton
Michael Dalton is a security researcher and engineer who currently works at OpenAI as a member of technical staff. He previously worked at Google and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2010, where his dissertation focused on Dynamic Information Flow Tracking systems for software security. He is known for his research on systems security, including the Nemesis project for preventing authentication and access control vulnerabilities in web applications, and the Raksha prototype for buffer overflow protection.
“If we automate vulnerability finding without automating patching, we will shift the bottleneck from vulnerabilities to patching to remediation, and we will simply drown or inundate human software engineers in new vulnerabilities to fix and patch. This is not a problem whose end state we can solve partially.”
Source→“We should expect that threat actors will intentionally deploy, optimize, weaponize, and use offensive agent collectives in the manner that we have just described here. He called it a 'watershed moment.'”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.