Gene Spafford
“Spaf”The Academy’s Anchor
The Morris worm analysis, Practical UNIX Security, and CERIAS
Rating
92Impact score
Domains
Systems securityForensicsSecurity education
Scouting report
Produced one of the first detailed technical analyses of the 1988 Morris worm while the internet was still smoking, co-wrote Practical UNIX and Internet Security with Simson Garfinkel, co-created Tripwire, and founded Purdue’s COAST lab and then CERIAS — for years the largest academic security centre in the US. Has advised more federal panels than most people have attended.
Curator’s note
Trained a large fraction of the people on the rest of these cards.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Gene Spafford by Chlor at English Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sources
- 01Gene Spafford en.wikipedia.org
- 02CERIAS, Purdue University cerias.purdue.edu