Who is the father of computer security?

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The United States of America would never have existed (at least not in the way we know it) if not for the contributions of a small group of visionaries we know as the Founding Fathers. These men – John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, and a host of others – built a framework of government that lasts to this day. To mark July 4 th, we decided to come up with a list of Founding Fathers (and Mothers) of Cybersecurity. This was no easy task. After all, there is no cybersecurity equivalent to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the Federalist Papers, or any of the other forums in which America’s Founding Fathers debated ideas back and forth. Cybersecurity was not invented in one place and time but has developed over time, with each expert building on the work of those who came before them. For the purposes of this article, we focused not on founders of cybersecurity businesses or solutions but on visionaries who developed theories and standards still used in cybersecurity today. Hundreds of names could be rightly considered pioneers of cybersecurity. We felt that these seven people (or in one case, a group of people) stood out. 1. Auguste Kerckhoffs Auguste Kerckhoffs Unknown author – Eugen Drezen, Historio de la Mondo Lingvo (Leipzig, 1931) For our first Founding Father, we have to go way back to the late nineteenth century when Dutch linguist and cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs devised...

A man who is recognised as a British institution (although belatedly) and a homegrown genius, an accolade that is thrown around far too often but has never been so poignant for the father of computer science. But the annual respect, admiration and acknowledgment that drives this article, and countless others, hasn't always existed for Alan Turing. For many years, up until as recently as 2012, much of his work was kept under lock & key by Ahead of his time But Turing's work during that time, although kept out of public eye, could at least be shared with those with the right security clearance. He got to bask in the glory of a personal recommendation from Winston Churchill and his name was regularly associated with the word 'brilliant' in his GCHQ days (then known as GC&CS). But one secret, his sexuality, wasn't shared with his colleagues, his superiors or anyone other than a lady he was briefly engaged too. The revelation of this secret, which became public after a police investigation into a separate matter, would unfairly tarnish his reputation in time of barbaric laws and ignorance. A time when one's sexuality could result in a conviction and decimate a lifetime of brilliance and accomplishments. Thankfully those days are over and we can properly celebrate what Turing did for this country loudly and proudly. It will always be Britain's shame that he wasn't publicly celebrated for his work when he was alive, but we can - and in some ways have - made up for it now. Aside f...

The Bank of England's new 50-pound note will feature mathematician Alan Turing, honoring the code-breaker who helped lay the foundation for computer science. Bank of England Alan Turing, the father of computer science and artificial intelligence who broke Adolf Hitler's Enigma code system in World War II — but who died an outcast because of his homosexuality — will be featured on the Bank of England's new 50-pound note. The new note will be printed on polymer and will bear a 1951 photo of Turing, the bank announced Monday. It's expected to enter circulation by the end of 2021. It will include a quote from Turing: "This is only a foretaste of what is to come and only the shadow of what is going to be." Turing was just 41 when he died from poisoning in 1954, a death that was deemed a suicide. For decades, his status as a giant in mathematics was largely unknown, thanks to the secrecy around his computer research and the social taboos about his sexuality. His story became more widely known after the release of the 2014 movie The Imitation Game. "Alan Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact on how we live today," the Bank of England's governor, Mark Carney, said in unveiling the new note. "Alan Turing's contributions were far-ranging and pathbreaking. Turing is a giant on whose shoulders so many now stand." In the U.K., 50-pound notes are not commonly used in many daily transactions, and some retailers In recent years, other updates to the...

The calculating engines of English mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) are among the most celebrated icons in the prehistory of computing. Babbage’s Difference Engine No.1 was the first successful automatic calculator and remains one of the finest examples of precision engineering of the time. Babbage is sometimes referred to as "father of computing." The International Charles Babbage Society (later the Charles Babbage Institute) took his name to honor his intellectual contributions and their relation to modern computers. Biography Charles Babbage was born on December 26, 1791, the son of Benjamin Babbage, a London banker. As a youth Babbage was his own instructor in algebra, of which he was passionately fond, and was well read in the continental mathematics of his day. Upon entering Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1811, he found himself far in advance of his tutors in mathematics. Babbage co-founded the Analytical Society for promoting continental mathematics and reforming the mathematics of Newton then taught at the university. In his twenties Babbage worked as a mathematician, principally in the calculus of functions. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816 and played a prominent part in the foundation of the Astronomical Society (later Royal Astronomical Society) in 1820. It was about this time that Babbage first acquired the interest in calculating machinery that became his consuming passion for the remainder of his life. In 1821 Babbage invented the...

In 1986, Cliff Stoll’s boss at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs tasked him with getting to the bottom of a 75-cent accounting discrepancy in the lab’s computer network, which was rented out to remote users by the minute. Stoll, 36, investigated the source of that minuscule anomaly, pulling on it like a loose thread until it led to a shocking culprit: a hacker in the system. Stoll then spent the next year of his life following that hacker’s footprints across the lab’s network and the nascent internet. In doing so, he revealed a vast web of similar intrusions into military and government agencies carried out by a group of young German hackers, eventually revealed to have been working in the service of the Soviet KGB. The story that Stoll unraveled from that tiny initial clue, which he published in late 1989 as a kind of digital detective memoir, The Cuckoo’s Egg, turned out to be the very first known case of state-sponsored hacking—a tale far bigger than he could have ever imagined when he began hunting those three quarters missing from his lab’s ledger. Today, that story has taken on a larger life still. As The Cuckoo’s Egg hits its 30th anniversary, the book has sold more than 1 million copies. And for a smaller core of cybersecurity practitioners within that massive readership, it’s become a kind of legend: the ur-narrative of a lone hacker hunter, a text that has inspired an entire generation of network defenders chasing their own anomalies through a vastly larger, infini...

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A man who is recognised as a British institution (although belatedly) and a homegrown genius, an accolade that is thrown around far too often but has never been so poignant for the father of computer science. But the annual respect, admiration and acknowledgment that drives this article, and countless others, hasn't always existed for Alan Turing. For many years, up until as recently as 2012, much of his work was kept under lock & key by Ahead of his time But Turing's work during that time, although kept out of public eye, could at least be shared with those with the right security clearance. He got to bask in the glory of a personal recommendation from Winston Churchill and his name was regularly associated with the word 'brilliant' in his GCHQ days (then known as GC&CS). But one secret, his sexuality, wasn't shared with his colleagues, his superiors or anyone other than a lady he was briefly engaged too. The revelation of this secret, which became public after a police investigation into a separate matter, would unfairly tarnish his reputation in time of barbaric laws and ignorance. A time when one's sexuality could result in a conviction and decimate a lifetime of brilliance and accomplishments. Thankfully those days are over and we can properly celebrate what Turing did for this country loudly and proudly. It will always be Britain's shame that he wasn't publicly celebrated for his work when he was alive, but we can - and in some ways have - made up for it now. Aside f...

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The United States of America would never have existed (at least not in the way we know it) if not for the contributions of a small group of visionaries we know as the Founding Fathers. These men – John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Washington, and a host of others – built a framework of government that lasts to this day. To mark July 4 th, we decided to come up with a list of Founding Fathers (and Mothers) of Cybersecurity. This was no easy task. After all, there is no cybersecurity equivalent to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the Federalist Papers, or any of the other forums in which America’s Founding Fathers debated ideas back and forth. Cybersecurity was not invented in one place and time but has developed over time, with each expert building on the work of those who came before them. For the purposes of this article, we focused not on founders of cybersecurity businesses or solutions but on visionaries who developed theories and standards still used in cybersecurity today. Hundreds of names could be rightly considered pioneers of cybersecurity. We felt that these seven people (or in one case, a group of people) stood out. 1. Auguste Kerckhoffs Auguste Kerckhoffs Unknown author – Eugen Drezen, Historio de la Mondo Lingvo (Leipzig, 1931) For our first Founding Father, we have to go way back to the late nineteenth century when Dutch linguist and cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs devised...