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 Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, the ...

; 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 Verisign Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the , , and gene ...

, 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 s ...

#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 Martin Edward Hellman (born October 2, 1945) is an American cryptologist and mathematician, best known for his involvement with public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman is a longtime contributor to ...

- 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 Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie (born June 5, 1944), ForMemRS, is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper ''New Dir ...

- 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 - 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 Ronald Linn Rivest (; born May 6, 1947) is a cryptographer and an Institute Professor at MIT. He is a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Int ...

- Professor of Computer Science at MIT's EECS Department *

Adi Shamir Adi Shamir ( he, עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identifi ...

- Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute *

Leonard Adleman Leonard Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist. He is one of the creators of the RSA encryption algorithm, for which he received the 2002 Turing Award, often called the Nobel prize of Computer science. He is also kno ...

- Professor of Computer Science and Molecular Biology at the University of Southern California

Hall of Fame Class of 2013

* David Elliott Bell- 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. S ...

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 Howard George Willis Ware (August 31, 1920 – November 22, 2013), popularly known as Willis Howard Ware was an American computer pioneer who co-developed the IAS machine that laid down the blueprint of the modern day computer in the late 20th ...

- Computer Scientist Emeritus at the RAND Corporation

Hall of Fame Class of 2014

* Steven M. Bellovin - 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, Nebrask ...

- Vice-President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google * Richard A. Clarke - former Special Advisor to the President on Cyber Security * Paul Kocher - designer of SSL3 cryptographic elements *

Philip Zimmermann Philip R. Zimmermann (born 1954) is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. He is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption ...

- creator of

Pretty Good Privacy Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partition ...

(PGP)

Hall of Fame Class of 2015

*Cynthia E. Irvine - Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School * Susan Landau - Professor of Cyber Security and Policy at Tufts University's

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. The School is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations and is well-ranked in it ...

*Steven B. Lipner - retired Director of Software Security at Microsoft *Ronald S. Ross -

Fellow * Jerome H. Saltzer - 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 - Chief Information Security Officer at

In-Q-Tel In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in high-tech companies to keep the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with ...

* 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 Butler W. Lampson, ForMemRS, (born December 23, 1943) is an American computer scientist best known for his contributions to the development and implementation of distributed personal computing. Education and early life After graduating from t ...

- 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 - 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 Kenneth A. Minihan (born December 31, 1943) is a former United States Air Force Lieutenant general (United States), lieutenant general who served as the director of the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, retiring on May ...

- 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 Howard Anthony Schmidt (October 5, 1949 – March 2, 2017) was a partner with Tom Ridge in Ridge Schmidt Cyber LLC, a consultancy company in the field of cybersecurity. He was the Cyber-Security Coordinator of the Obama Administration, operating i ...

- 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