IBM Research - Israel
Security
Our research covers the entire range of security solutions, including: data and AI security, privacy, cloud security, threat management, attack simulation, privacy preserving analytics, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), blockchain, and more.
News and Blogs
Data security and privacy at MPNE consensus 2024
Researcher Ariel Farkash presents work on Model Anonymization and Data Minimization as part of the iToBoS project
Best Artifact Award at the Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium (PETS 2023)
The research paper "HeLayers: A Tile Tensors Framework for Large Neural Networks on Encrypted Data" was recognized as Best Artifact at PETS 2023
Modernizing banking with central bank digital currencies
Why are distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) important for CBDCs in the modern era?
Building privacy-preserving federated learning to help fight financial crime
In this blog, ISRL researchers and their co-authors describe their solution for detecting anomalies in suspicious financial transactions, which won second place at a recent privacy technologies challenge.
Research Projects
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Data and AI Privacy |
Privacy has always been a concern when seeking to develop trustworthy AI solutions, even with conventional machine learning and deep learning models. Today, with the prevalence of large, foundational language models, this concern becomes even more acute. Language models have an inherent tendency to memorize and even reproduce in their outputs text sequences learned during training, may this be pre-training, fine-tuning or even prompt-tuning. If this training data contained sensitive or personal information, this could result in a major privacy breach. |
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Fully Homomorphic Encryption |
IBM Research created Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) which keeps sensitive data encrypted at all times, securing the cloud for highly regulated industries. We’ve built HElayers for you to start building commercial applications with FHE across Windows, Linux, macOS and Linux on IBM Z mainframe. |
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Blockchain Platforms |
We are creating high-performance messaging solutions, including replication middleware for distributed ledger technologies, consensus algorithms, interactive protocols, and a complex blockchain-based management system. The team has vast expertise in distributed computing with a focus on distributed ledger technology such as Hyperledger Fabric, blockchain databases such as Hyperledger Orion, high availability, clustering, and communication. |
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Central Bank Digital Currency |
We support central bank digital currencies (CBDC) in a hybrid cloud environment, using distributed ledgers, based on IBM's Hyperledger Fabric, and IBM Research's Weaver interoperability tool. By developing fungible and non-fungible token (NFT) infrastructures, we help support the digital representation of assets and rights to accelerate the exchange and interactions in business ecosystems. |
Publications
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IBM researchers in Israel publish a wide variety of work every year as part of their work on research projects in the lab, in collaboration with other researchers and scientists in IBM, and together with academic and industrial partners from around the world. Researchers in our group publish works at conferences and in scientific journals such as the Data Privacy Management workshop, the Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology workshop, the AI and Ethics journal, and others. |
Tools & Code
Confidential Containers
Confidential Containers is an open source community working to enable cloud native confidential computing by leveraging Trusted Execution Environments to protect containers and data.
HELayers an FHE SDK
Fully Homomorphic Encryption SDK for Data scientists and Developer.
Academic Collaboration
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Collaborate with our researchers in investigating security solutions beyond the leading edge, including: Cyber Security, AI Privacy, Privacy Preserving Analytics (using Fully Homomorphic Encryption), and more. |
Let's talk
We're always happy to talk. Feel free to get in touch.
Moshe Levinger
Manager, Security
Gabi Zodik
Blockchain
Yaron Wolfsthal
XDR
Ronen Levy
Security & Privacy Tech.