Bryan Stephenson

Researcher
Services Research Lab
Palo Alto

Biography

Bryan is a researcher in the Service Automation and Integration Lab, focused on enabling corporations to implement new business models utilizing a global ecosystem of services delivered over the cloud.  He has been with HP Labs for 5 years and with HP for 21 years.  Bryan's areas of expertise include security, utility computing, data networking, complex solution architecture, and software engineering. His hobbies mostly revolve around music and gardening.

Bryan has held many roles in HP Labs and various product and services divisions in HP.  He helped to create the Flexible Computing Services business offering high-performance compute clusters of over 1000 processors for rent with two days notice.

 

Research interests

Bryan is investigating several research questions in the current project:

  • How to enable the service consumer to understand and evaluate the risks to which the business is exposed when creating a business process by composing online services?
  • How to enable the service consumer to describe their data, and the controls over their data, in the terms that they understand and at the level of abstraction they desire?
  • How to provide scalable and decentralized enforcement of the controls to enable access to services and data, while providing consistent protection in all the services using the data? In particular, how can data management controls beyond the typical CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability) security controls be applied?  Such controls should govern data usage, migration, retention, and destruction.

    • Publications

    Patents

    4

    Professional activities

    Bryan is a program committee member for the RSA Conference's Experienced Security Professionals Program.  He has reviewed proposals for the NSF in the area of cloud computing.