Justin Cappos is a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at New York University. Justin’s research philosophy focuses on improving real world functions by building systems that can be widely deployed, and then addressing practical issues that arise.
Cappos is a creator of five Linux Foundation projects: TUF, in-toto, Uptane, SBOMit, and gittuf. His research advances are adopted into production use by Google, RedHat/IBM, VMware, Docker, Amazon, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Datadog, and Bloomberg, as well as many other companies / software projects. His security designs have also been deployed across millions of automobiles, and other IoT devices and are also used to protect legal codes across a variety of jurisdictions, including Washington DC, Baltimore, and the State of Maryland.