Starting up Commonwealth Crypto

Building a new cryptocurrency startup in Boston

In August 2016, my research group at Boston University (BU) posted a paper online announcing TumbleBit, a protocol that provides fast, secure, and anonymous…

How the Cybersecurity Factory Will Secure Our Software

About Our Summer Program for Security Startups

Announcing teams for Cybersecurity Factory 2018!

You Can’t Start a Company at Your Desk

Technically, you can — but should not and here is why. Every startup company requires an idea (and about a dozen spare ideas). For academics this is not a problem: we produce ideas consistently in our publications. Every startup requires passion from its…

Piloting Our Startup During Cybersecurity Factory’s Pilot Summer

Summer 2016 at Cybersecurity Factory

My name is Chris and my startup Pixm was among a cohort of four teams that entered into Cybersecurity Factory’s 2016 summer program. Pixm’s platform provides visual search tools to identify phishing web pages in real time, without relying on reactive industry…