The National Cyber Security Hall of Fame, founded by Larry Letow and Rick Geritz, was established in 2012 to recognize the contributions of key individuals in the field of cyber security; its mission statement is, ''Respect the Past - Protect the Future.'' According to its website, it is designed to honor the innovative individuals and organizations which had the vision and leadership to create the fundamental building blocks for the cybersecurity Industry. The organization also highlights major milestones in the industry's 40-year history through
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representation, which includes inductees and their corresponding accomplishments.

Nominations

Nominations into the Cyber Security Hall of Fame are submitted in the following categories, then reviewed by the Advisory Committee, chaired in 2013 by Mike Jacobs. *Technology *Policy *Public Awareness *Education *Business

Founders

Larry Letow, Operations Partner for Interprise Partners, and Rick Gertiz, CEO of SwingAI

Advisory board

As of 2019, the members of the Cyber Security Hall of Fame advisory board are: #Mike Jacobs - Chairman of the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame #Jim Bidzos - Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of VeriSign, Inc. #Donna F. Dodson - Chief Cyber Security Advisor for the

National Institute of Standards and Technology The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an agency of the United States Department of Commerce whose mission is to promote American innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into physical sci ...

#Cynthia E. Irvine - Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School #Charles Kolodgy - Senior Security Strategist for IBM #Gordon W. Romney - Professor of Cyber Security at the University of San Diego #John Serafini - venture capital investor # Eugene H. Spafford - Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University

Hall of Fame Class of 2012

* F. Lynn McNulty - an early champion of information security in the U.S. Government * Martin Hellman - Professor Emeritus at Stanford University *

Ralph Merkle Ralph C. Merkle (born February 2, 1952) is a computer scientist and mathematician. He is one of the inventors of public-key cryptography, the inventor of cryptographic hashing, and more recently a researcher and speaker on cryonics. Contribution ...

- developed the earliest public key cryptography system with Diffie and Hellman * Whitfield Diffie - developed the world's earliest public key cryptographic system along with Merkle and Hellman *

Dorothy Denning Dorothy Elizabeth Denning (née Robling, born August 12, 1945) is a US-American information security researcher known for lattice-based access control (LBAC), intrusion detection systems (IDS), and other cyber security innovations. She published ...

- one of the world's leading experts in information security *

Roger R. Schell Roger R. Schell is president of ÆSec, a company focused on appliances built on hardened platforms for secure, reliable e-business on the Internet. For several years he managed the development and delivery of security for several Novell releases o ...

- President of ESec, providing platforms for secure e-business on the Internet *

Peter G. Neumann Peter Gabriel Neumann (born 1932) is a computer-science researcher who worked on the Multics operating system in the 1960s. He edits the RISKS Digest columns for ACM ''Software Engineering Notes'' and ''Communications of the ACM''. He founded ...

- Principal Scientist at SRI International * Carl Landwehr - Lead Research Scientist at the Cyber Security and Policy Institute of George Washington University * Ronald Rivest - Professor of Computer Science at MIT's EECS Department * Adi Shamir - Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute * Leonard Adleman - Professor of Computer Science and Molecular Biology at the University of Southern California

Hall of Fame Class of 2013

David Elliott Bell David Elliott Bell (born in 1945) is an American mathematician and computer security pioneer. While working at Mitre Corporation, MITRE Corporation, he and Leonard J. LaPadula co-developed the highly influential Bell–LaPadula model. In 2012, Bel ...

- coauthor of the

Bell–LaPadula model The Bell–LaPadula Model (BLP) is a state machine model used for enforcing access control in government and military applications. It was developed by David Elliott Bell and Leonard J. LaPadula, subsequent to strong guidance from Roger R. Sche ...

of computer security *Jim Bidzos - Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of VeriSign, Inc * Eugene H. Spafford - Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University *James P. Anderson - started the field of intrusion detection and organized the CIA group known as "The Brain Trust" * Willis H. Ware - Computer Scientist Emeritus at the RAND Corporation

Hall of Fame Class of 2014

Steven M. Bellovin Steven M. Bellovin is a researcher on computer networking and computer security, security. He has been a professor in the Computer Science department at Columbia University since 2005. Previously, Bellovin was a Fellow at AT&T Labs Research in Flo ...

- Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University *

Vinton G. Cerf Vinton may refer to: Places in the United States *Vinton, California *Fort Vinton, Florida *Vinton, Iowa * Vinton, Kansas *Vinton, Louisiana * Vinton, Missouri * Vinton, Nebraska, a ghost town in Valley County, Nebraska * Vinton Township, Nebraska ...

- Vice-President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google *

Richard A. Clarke Richard Alan Clarke (born October 27, 1950) is an American national security expert, novelist, and former government official. He served as the Counterterrorism Czar as the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Cou ...

- former Special Advisor to the President on Cyber Security * Paul Kocher - designer of SSL3 cryptographic elements * Philip Zimmermann - creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

Hall of Fame Class of 2015

*Cynthia E. Irvine - Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School *

Susan Landau Susan Landau is an American mathematician, engineer, cybersecurity policy expert, and Bridge Professor in Cybersecurity and Policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. and She previously worked as a Senior Staff Priv ...

- Professor of Cyber Security and Policy at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy *Steven B. Lipner - retired Director of Software Security at Microsoft *Ronald S. Ross -

Fellow *

Jerome H. Saltzer Jerome Howard "Jerry" Saltzer (born October 9, 1939) is an American computer scientist. Career Jerry Saltzer received an ScD in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1966. His dissertation Traffic Control in a Multiplexed System was advised ...

- Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at MIT

Hall of Fame Class of 2016

Horst Feistel Horst Feistel (January 30, 1915 – November 14, 1990) was a German-American cryptographer who worked on the design of ciphers at IBM, initiating research that culminated in the development of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the 1970s. The ...

- inventor of the

Data Encryption Standard The Data Encryption Standard (DES ) is a symmetric-key algorithm for the encryption of digital data. Although its short key length of 56 bits makes it too insecure for modern applications, it has been highly influential in the advancement of cry ...

Dan Geer Dan Geer is a computer security analyst and risk management specialist. He is recognized for raising awareness of critical computer and network security issues before the risks were widely understood, and for ground-breaking work on the economi ...

- Chief Information Security Officer at In-Q-Tel * Lance J. Hoffman - Distinguished Research Professor of Computer Science at George Washington University *Paul A. Karger - inventor and security architect at the Digital Equipment Corporation and at IBM * Butler Lampson - Technical Fellow at Microsoft and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at MIT *William H. Murray - founder of the Colloquium for Information System Security Education (CISSE) *Leonard J. LaPadula - coauthor of the

of computer security

Hall of Fame Class of 2019

(There was no Class of Inductees in 2017 or 2018.) *

Brian Snow Brian Snow (September 5, 1943December 4, 2022) served in the U.S. National Security Agency from 1971 to 2006, including a six-year term as Technical Director of the Information Assurance Directorate (IAD), which is the defensive arm of the NSA, ...

- retired Technical Director of Research in the NSA's Information Assurance Directorate *Sheila Brand - main author of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria *

Corey Schou Corey Schou is University Professor of Informatics and Associate Dean at Idaho State University, director of the National Information Assurance Training and Education Center (NIATEC) and the Simplot Decision Support Center (SDSC), and for ten yea ...

- Professor of Informatics at Idaho State University and Director of its Information Assurance Training and Education Center * Virgil D. Gligor - Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University * Kenneth Minihan - former Director of the NSA and of the Defense Intelligence Agency *

Rebecca Bace Rebecca "Becky" Gurley Bace (1955–2017) was an American computer security expert and pioneer in intrusion detection. She spent 12 years at the US National Security Agency where she created the Computer Misuse and Anomaly Detection (CMAD) resear ...

- pioneer in the field of intrusion detection, worked for the NSA and later in the high-tech private sector * Howard Schmidt - created the first U.S. government computer forensics lab, served as White House cybersecurity adviser in the Bush and Obama Administrations

External links

* http://www.cybersecurityhalloffame.org * http://www.csoonline.com/article/739334/class-of-2013-inductees-for-national-cyber-security-hall-of-fame-chosen * http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/first-inductees-to-national-cyber-security-hall-of-fame-unveiled-170003536.html * http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/28279/cyber-security-hall-of-fame-to-induct-11-security-pioneers * http://www.cybermaryland.org/2012/03/national-cyber-security-hall-of-fame-to-launch-at-rsa-2012/ * https://www.rand.org/blog/2013/10/willis-ware-inducted-into-the-national-cyber-security.html * http://www.federalnewsradio.com/241/3025860/National-Cyber-Security-Hall-of-Fame-names-first-dozen-nominees * http://fedscoop.com/national-security-hall-of-fame-inducts-inaugural-class/ * http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120906006906/en/National-Cyber-Security-Hall-Fame-releases-Final#.UsHzmJHTeuk * http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?ID=61367 * http://www.prweb.com/releases/cyber/security/prweb9966257.htm * http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/27362/new_national_cyber_security_hall_fame_names_first_ Awards established in 2012 Computer security organizations Science and technology halls of fame Computer-related awards Halls of fame in Maryland