Gordon Lyon
“Fyodor”Author of Nmap
The scanner that is on every security laptop on earth
Rating
93Impact score
Domains
Network scanningOS fingerprintingOpen source
Scouting report
Released Nmap in Phrack in 1997 and has maintained it ever since, adding OS fingerprinting, service detection and the NSE scripting engine. Runs seclists.org, hosting the Bugtraq and Full Disclosure archives that are the field’s institutional memory, and fought MPAA and studio takedown attempts over the tool. Nmap is the first command most defenders learn.
Curator’s note
Twenty-eight years of one maintainer. The reliability is the achievement.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Gordon Lyon by Jacob Appelbaum, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sources
- 01Gordon Lyon en.wikipedia.org
- 02Nmap nmap.org