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 a timeline 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
- 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 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 - 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