National Cyber Security Hall of Fame

Nominations

• Technology
• Policy
• Public Awareness
• Education
• Business

  Advisory Board

1. Mike Jacobs - Chairman of the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame
2. Jim Bidzos - Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of VeriSign, Inc.
3. Donna F. Dodson - Chief Cyber Security Advisor for the National Institute of Standards and Technology
4. Cynthia E. Irvine - Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School
5. Charles Kolodgy - Senior Security Strategist for IBM
6. Gordon W. Romney - Professor of Cyber Security at the University of San Diego
7. John Serafini - venture capital investor
8. 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 - developed 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 - 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 - 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 E. Bell- coauthor of the Bell-LaPadula model 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 - Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University
• Vinton G. Cerf - 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 - creator of Pretty Good Privacy

  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
• Steven B. Lipner - retired Director of Software Security at Microsoft
• Ronald S. Ross - National Institute of Standards and Technology Fellow
• Jerome H. Saltzer - Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at MIT

  Hall of Fame Class of 2016

• Horst Feistel - inventor of the Data Encryption Standard
• Dan Geer - 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
• Leonard J. LaPadula - coauthor of the Bell-LaPadula model of computer security

  Hall of Fame Class of 2019

• 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 - 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 - 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