Patching Critical Infrastructure: Lessons from DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge
About This Session
DARPA and ARPA-H are on a mission to advance AI-driven cybersecurity and usher in a future where we can patch vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. AI Cyber Challenge Program Manager Andrew Carney will discuss lessons learned from competition and how the program is driving the innovation of responsible AI systems designed to address some of our most important digital issues today: the security of critical infrastructure and software supply chains.
Speaker
Andrew Carney
Program Manager, DARPA AI Cyber Challenge - DARPA
Carney is program manager for the DARPA AI Cyber Challenge. He is also a program manager at ARPA-H where he leads programs and projects to improve health cybersecurity.
He was previously a principal researcher in HSBC’s Cybersecurity Science and Analytics group. Before that, he was a technical advisor and contractor at DARPA, supporting reverse engineering, program analysis, human-machine teaming, and automated program repair research. He has long been involved in competitive hacking (Capture the Flag, or CTF) as both a player and a competition organizer.
Carney has over 15 years of experience in software & hardware vulnerability research and technical education & training. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University.
He was previously a principal researcher in HSBC’s Cybersecurity Science and Analytics group. Before that, he was a technical advisor and contractor at DARPA, supporting reverse engineering, program analysis, human-machine teaming, and automated program repair research. He has long been involved in competitive hacking (Capture the Flag, or CTF) as both a player and a competition organizer.
Carney has over 15 years of experience in software & hardware vulnerability research and technical education & training. He holds a master’s degree in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University.
