William Cheswick

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William "Bill" R. Cheswick (born before 1970) is an American Internet security expert.

Life

Bill Cheswick went to school in Lawrenceville, New Jersey (Lawrenceville School, graduation 1970) and studied at Lehigh University with a bachelor's degree in 1975. While still at university, he developed a text editor and worked as a programmer for the after graduation American Newspaper Publishers Association / Research Institute and as a system programmer at the Computer Sciences Corporation in Warminster , where he mainly dealt with CDC computer systems. From 1978 to 1987 he was with Systems and Computer Technology Corporation and from 1987 with Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill. There he was a pioneer in firewalls with Steven M. Bellovin , which led to their standard work Firewalls and Internet Security , published in 1994 . Both also developed one of the first honeypots . In 1998 he started the Internet Mapping Project with Hal Burch for the graphical representation of Internet networks. In 2000 he left Bell-Labs and until 2006 was a senior scientist for the startup Lumeta, which pursued Internet mapping. 2007 to 2012 was again at ATT Labs in Florham Parks (New Jersey).

In 1990 he coined the term proxy .

He also works on software for exhibitions in science museums.

Fonts

  • with Steven M. Bellovin Firewalls and Internet security: repelling the wily hacker , Addison-Wesley 1994, 2nd edition (with Aviel D. Rubin) 2003
    • German translation Firewalls and security on the Internet: Protection against clever hackers , Munich: Addison-Wesley, 2nd edition, 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cheswick An Evening with Berferd In Which a Hacker is Lured Endured and Studied , Proceedings of the Usenix Winter 92 Conference, January 1992
  2. ↑ Cheswick The Design of a Secure Internet Gateway, Proceedings of the Usenix Summer 90 Conference , June 1990
personal data
SURNAME Cheswick, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cheswick, William R .; Cheswick, Bill (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American internet security expert
DATE OF BIRTH before 1970