Google’s engineering director cites key progress on web access security, vulnerability disclosure

LAS VEGAS. Parisa Tabriz, Google’s director of engineering, launched Black Hat USA 2018 here today with a keynote speech offering her firm’s “Project Zero” as a cybersecurity success story that has driven the shift to “https” and led to faster and more useful disclosure of vulnerabilities by software and product vendors.

Addressing an arena filled with many of the projected 17,000 attendees at Black Hat, Tabriz cited three principles for successful cybersecurity initiatives: identify and tackle root causes, pick milestones...