National Cyber Security Hall of Fame

Nominations

• Technology
• Policy
• Public Awareness
• Education
• Business
• Infrastructure
• Public Private Partnerships

Founders

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 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 – 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 Elliott 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

Hall of Fame Class of 2023

• Matthew Bishop – professor, University of California at Davis
• Renaud Deraison – founder of Tenable
• Dave Dewalt – founder and CEO, NightDragon
• Ron Gula – founder of Tenable
• Jack Huffard – founder of Tenable
• Mike Jacobs – retired assurance director, National Security Agency
• Diana Kelley – CISO, Protect AI
• Tony Sager – senior VP and chief evangelist, Center for Internet Security
• Mark Weatherford – former chief strategy officer, National Cybersecurity Center
• Sounil Yu – co-founder and CTO, Knostic
• CompTia – non-profit trade association that issues professional certifications for Cyber

Hall of Fame Class of 2024

• Edna Conway – former CSO for Cisco – global value chain and current cyber subject matter expert
• Dr. Paul Nielsen – currently CEO of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute
• Alan Paller – former president SANS Technology Institute
• Admiral Michael Rogers – second commander of the United States Cyber Command and 17th director of the National Security Agency
• Dr. James Roskind – former VP, chief scientist of Netscape and current vice president of Amazon
• Heather Rodriguez – chief executive officer and founder of Security Innovation Network
• Robert Rodriguez – chairperson and founder of Security Innovation Network