Markus Jakobsson
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Björn Markus Jakobsson is a computer security researcher and entrepreneur, best known for his research on phishing and anti-phishing.
Jakobsson was born in 1968 in Sweden, the eldest of four brothers. He received his master’s degree in Computer Engineering from the Lund University Faculty of Engineering in 1993 and received his doctorate in computer science from UCSD in 1997. Since then he has served as part of the technical staff at Bell Labs (1997-2001) and principal research scientist at RSA Security (2001-2004). While at RSA he was editor of the journal RSA Cryptobytes. He is now associate director of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity at Indiana University and specializes in context-aware phishing. In 2005, along with Ari Juels, he co-founded Ravenwhite Inc, a security company that focuses on developing new techniques to protect users from phishing and online identity theft. As of April 2006 he is the owner of 24 security-related US patents.
