Robert Watson is a Research Scientist and DARPA Principal Investigator at Network Associates Laboratories, the Security Research Division of Network Associates, Inc. His research interests center on network protocol security, distributed system security, and operating system security. Past work has included DNS Security and Active Network Security; his current work includes CBOSS, a DARPA-sponsored research and development project to introduce trusted operating system features into mainstream operating systems, including FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Mr Watson is also a FreeBSD Core Team Member and founder of the TrustedBSD Project.