Wietse Zweitze Venema (born 1951) is a

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and

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best known for writing the Postfix email system. He also wrote

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and collaborated with

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to produce the computer security tools

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and

The Coroner's Toolkit The Coroner's Toolkit (or TCT) is a suite of free computer security programs by Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema for digital forensic analysis. The suite runs under several Unix-related operating systems: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, SunOS/ Solaris, ...

Biography

He studied physics at the

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, continuing there to get a

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in 1984 with the dissertation ''Left-right symmetry in nuclear beta decay''. He spent 12 years at Eindhoven University as a

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in the Mathematics and Computer Science department, and spent part of this time writing tools for Electronic Data Interchange. Since emigrating to the U.S. in 1996 and until 2015, he has been working for the IBM

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. On March 24, 2015, he announced he was leaving IBM for

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Awards

Awards Venema has received for his work: * Security Summit Hall of Fame Award (July 1998) * SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award (November 1999) *

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Award (November 2000) *

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Milter Milter ( portmanteau for ''mail filter'') is an extension to the widely used open source mail transfer agents (MTA) Sendmail and Postfix. It allows administrators to add mail filters for filtering spam or viruses in the mail-processing chain. ...

Innovation Award (November 2006) * The 2008

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(March 2009) * ISSA Hall of Fame Award (October 2012)

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