Top 59 Influencers in IT Security (2007)
I've already mentioned this list once and said I disagreed with a good chunk of it... I also said that I'd come back with my own list. This is exactly what I've done... Ryan (numerophobe.com), Jeremy (engineeringreversed.com) and I sat down and came up with this list. We basically decided that the original list should have been 64 (seems like a more "computerized" number)... So in keeping with the semi-fictional list that IT Security provided, we came up with the following five additions:
- Acid Burn - Angelina Jolie made all little boys fall in love with computers.
- Matthew Broderick - For making us want to skip school and hack things.
- RoboCop - Made us want to protect the world...
- Al Gore - For Inventing and Fathering the Internet
- Zero Cool - He kissed Angelina Jolie
I hope that made everyone smile... Now we've come up with an actual list. These are people who have blogs that we feel are worth reading (because we learn something when we do or, at the very least, they are informative), developers of software that drives security, and individuals who have earned a name for themselves with interesting research and are still around with something informative to say.
I'm numbering this list, not to signify importance but to make this distinction... Numbers 1 - 27 were decided upon by all of us... the remaining numbers I added after the fact, we either forgot to add them or they came to mind afterward.
- Joanna Rutkowska
- David Litchfield
- Jeremiah Grossman
- RSnake
- HD Moore
- Anton Chuvakin
- Matasano Team
- Bruce Schneier
- Richard Bejtlich
- SecuriTeam
- Emergent Chaos
- Alex Eckleberry
- Mark Russinovich
- TAOSSA
- Cesar Cerrudo
- Dave Aitel
- David Maynor
- Dave Korn
- Ilfak Guilfanov (DataRescue)
- Halvar Flake (Sabre Labs, Sabre Security)
- Pedram Amini
- NVD
- Mitre
- Michael Sutton
- Fyodor
- Mike Rothman
- Peter Ferrie
- skape
- spoonm
- Mutz / Max
- DVD Jon
- Ero Carrera Ventura
I've been following the comments over at Matasano and I realize that Thomas doesn't think they belong in any sort of list... but I beg to differ... The Matasano blog is usually one of my favourite reads of the day. Anyways, we just wanted to share the list.
Why do people continue to sensationalize Joanna’s findings? I dont find them a big deal. There mostly impractical and common sense (firewire thing). I wish people would stop wooing over her. Its certainly getting old.
Let’s see… Red Pill, Blue Bill, Subverting the Vista Kernel for fun and Profit, Defeating hardware-based RAM acquisition tools and many other things.. Plenty of great research… And you choose to come here and anonymously insult her work? You don’t even have the balls to identify yourself? That’s just pathetic. Well you’re a Road Runner customer in Carolina for anyone who thinks they might have an idea of who you are…
Yet that one word sums it up so nicely… Pathetic.
i apologise HTregz. My comment came out completely wrong. What i had meant to say was that the media sensationalized a lot of the stories, where i think other researchers were doing much more interesting things.