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Marcus J. Ranum

April 11, 2024

Marcus J. Ranum (born November 5, 1962, in New York City, New York, United States) is a computer and network security researcher. He is credited with a number of innovations in firewalls, including building the first Internet email server for the whitehouse.gov domain,[1] and intrusion detection systems. He has held technical and leadership positions with a number of computer security companies, and is a faculty member of the Institute for Applied Network Security.

Marcus J. Ranum
Born (1962-11-05) 5 November 1962 (age 61)
New York City, New York, United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materJohns Hopkins University
EmployerTenable Network Security
Known forComputer and Network Security Innovator
Websitewww.ranum.com

Education edit

Marcus Ranum was born in New York City, and graduated from Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland before attending Johns Hopkins University where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1985.[2]

Career edit

Ranum helped design and implement Digital Equipment Corporation's Secure External Access Link (SEAL) (later AltaVista firewall),[3] regarded as the first commercial bastion host firewall,[4] in 1990. He left DEC to work for Trusted Information Systems (TIS) as chief scientist and development manager for Internet security products. It was at TIS that Ranum became responsible for the whitehouse.gov Internet email site. Once charged with that responsibility, Ranum advocated that the whitehouse.com domain be registered as well.[5] Despite his advice, it was not registered by the government, but was later registered for an adult entertainment provider.[6] At TIS, he developed the TIS Internet Firewall Toolkit (fwtk) under a grant from DARPA. After TIS, he worked for V-One as chief scientist, and was extensively involved in that company's IPO. Three months after that IPO, Ranum formed his own company, Network Flight Recorder (NFR), and served as CEO for three years before stepping into a CTO role.[7] Ranum later left NFR to consult for TruSecure,[8] before joining Tenable Network Security as CSO.[9]

In addition to his various full-time positions, Ranum has also held board or advisory positions at NFR Security,[10] Protego Networks,[11] and Fortify Software.[12]

Public presentations edit

Ranum has spoken to USENIX audiences at LISA 1997,[13] 1999 (tutorial)[14] LISA 2000 (keynote),[15] 2002,[16] and 2003 (tutorial).[17] He spoke out against full disclosure at the Black Hat Security Briefings in 2000.[18] More recently, Ranum has spoken at Interop in 2005[19] and 2007,[20] CanSecWest in 2010, and Secure360 in 2011.[21]

He previously taught courses for the SANS Institute.[22]

Influence edit

Ranum's work has been cited in at least 15 published U.S. patents,[23] as well as numerous other computer and network security articles and books.

"Ranum's Law" edit

Ranum is cited[24][25][26] as the author[27] of an eponymous law, "You can't solve social problems with software."

Awards edit

  • TISC "clue" award, 2000.[28]
  • Inducted into the ISSA hall of fame, 2000[29] or 2001.[30]
  • Techno-Security Professional of the Year, 2005.[31]

Publications edit

Articles edit

Marcus has co-authored a series of "Face Off" articles with Bruce Schneier, which have appeared approximately bi-monthly in Information Security Magazine since July, 2006.[32]

Ranum is one of a number of editors of the SANS Newsbites semiweekly email newsletter.[33]

  • Ranum, Marcus (1999-11-01). "Selling Security: Fear Leads to . . . the Dark Side". Login. USENIX.
  • —— (2000-02-01). "The Network Police Blotter". Login. 20 (1). USENIX.
  • —— (2000-04-01). "The Network Police Blotter". Login. 20 (2). USENIX.
  • —— (2000-06-01). "The Network Police Blotter". Login. 20 (3). USENIX.
  • —— (2000-10-01). "The Network Police Blotter" (PDF). Login. 20 (6). USENIX.
  • —— (2000-12-01). "The Network Police Blotter" (PDF). Login. 20 (8). USENIX.

Books edit

Personal life edit

Currently, Ranum lives in Morrisdale, Pennsylvania. His hobbies include photography and firearms. He maintains an active stock photography account on DeviantArt, and he wrote an essay for Oleg Volk's pro-firearms site. www.a-human-right.com.[34] Marcus Ranum was also interviewed by digital artist Brandon Pence for the NWFLAA which can be read in 2 parts: and . He is an atheist,[35] maintaining a blog on the Freethought Blogs network.[36]

References edit

  1. ^ . Information Security Magazine. 2003-06-17. Archived from the original on 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  2. ^ ZDNet - Security Q&A: the father of firewall
  3. ^ "Comments: Interview with Marcus Ranum". 2005-06-28. Archived from the original on 2013-11-30. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  4. ^ Avolio, Frederic (1999-06-01). "Firewalls and Internet Security, the Second Hundred (Internet) Years". The Internet Protocol Journal. Cisco Systems. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  5. ^ Miller, Sandra Kay (2006-12-01). "A Contrarian's Viewpoint". Retrieved 2008-06-11.
  6. ^ "December letter from a White House counsel to the operator of the "whitehouse.com" adult site". CNet. 1997-12-08. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
  7. ^ "NFR Intrusion Detection Appliance Version 4.0 Released". Business Wire. 1999-10-14. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  8. ^ "Cisco and Sourcefire Achieve Enterprise-Level NIDS Certification from ICSA Labs". Business Wire. 2003-04-21. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  9. ^ "Marcus J. Ranum Joins Tenable Network Security as Chief Security Officer". Business Wire. 2004-10-04. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  10. ^ "NFR Security Adds Leading Security Industry Experts to Technology Advisory Board". Business Wire. 2004-02-02. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  11. ^ "Protego Networks 2.5; Industry Icon Marcus Ranum Joins Protego Networks' Advisory Board". Business Wire. 2004-06-01. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  12. ^ "Technical Advisory Board". Fortify. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  13. ^ "USENIX Summaries: Eleventh Systems Administration Conference (LISA '97)". USENIX. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  14. ^ "Tutorial Instructors". USENIX. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  15. ^ "USENIX LISA-NT 2000". USENIX. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  16. ^ "2002 USENIX Technical Conference" (PDF). USENIX. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  17. ^ "USENIX — Security '03 Tutorials". USENIX. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  18. ^ Lemos, Robert (2000-10-09). "CERT to disclose software flaws". ZDNet.co.uk. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  19. ^ Avolio, Fred (2005-05-23). . Archived from the original on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  20. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-06-26. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  21. ^ . Secure360. Archived from the original on 2011-08-26. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  22. ^ "SANS Institute — Certified Instructors". Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  23. ^ 5,606,668, 5,623,601, 5,826,029, 5,870,562, 6,173,407, 6,601,233, 6,704,873, 6,834,310, 6,950,868, 7,016,951, 7,100,195, 7,224,778, 7,290,288, 7,313,812, and 7,360,244
  24. ^ William R. Cheswick; Steven M. Bellovin; Aviel D. Rubin (2003). Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker. Addison-Wesley Professional. pp. 202–. ISBN 978-0-201-63466-2.
  25. ^ Kian-Meng, Ang (28 February 2014). "Ranum's Law". www.kianmeng.org. Retrieved 26 April 2023. It was always a people problem rather than a technical issue or as Marcus Ranum put it, "You can't solve social problems with software".
  26. ^ Muffett, Alec (October 2016). "Digital Economy Bill Written Evidence Submitted by Alec Muffett (DEB 39)". www.parliament.uk. UK Parliament. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
  27. ^ Ranum, Marcus (16 June 1999). "Firewall Wizards mailing list archives". seclists.org. Retrieved 26 April 2023. You can't solve social problems with software.
  28. ^ "TISC to honor Marcus Ranum, Internet security pioneer". Business Wire. 2000-04-17. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  29. ^ "Award Honorees". ISSA. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  30. ^ "NFR Security Founder Selected for International Security Association Hall of Fame". Business Wire. 2006-06-12. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  31. ^ "Tenable Network Security Executive Named 2005 Techno-Security Professional of the Year". Business Wire. 2005-06-07. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  32. ^ "Articles by Author: Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum". Information Security Magazine. Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  33. ^ "SANS NewsBites". Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  34. ^ Ranum, Marcus. "The Aesthetics of the Gun Debate". Retrieved 2008-06-07.
  35. ^ Ranum, Marcus. "Ranum's supports Dawkins's "out campaign" for atheists.". Retrieved 12 April 2012. Generally, I do not get a lot of satisfaction out of being identified with causes or logos. But - a couple of years ago, when Richard Dawkins started his "out campaign" for atheists, I thought that showing my support was not a bad idea.
  36. ^ "Stderr". 23 January 2024.

External links edit

  • Marcus Ranum's personal website
  • Ranum interview with RationalSecurity (2007-06-25)
  • Security Solutions profile of Ranum (2006-12-01)
  • Ranum interview with IEEE Security and Privacy magazine (2006-09-01)
  • Ranum interview with SecurityFocus (2005-06-21)
  • Ranum's DeviantArt website (stock)
  • Ranum's DeviantArt website (portfolio)
  • DojoSec Lecture — March 2009 — Ranum's discussing the failure of the notion of Cyber-warfare

April 11, 2024
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Marcus J Ranum born November 5 1962 in New York City New York United States is a computer and network security researcher He is credited with a number of innovations in firewalls including building the first Internet email server for the whitehouse gov domain 1 and intrusion detection systems He has held technical and leadership positions with a number of computer security companies and is a faculty member of the Institute for Applied Network Security Marcus J RanumBorn 1962 11 05 5 November 1962 age 61 New York City New York United StatesNationalityAmericanAlma materJohns Hopkins UniversityEmployerTenable Network SecurityKnown forComputer and Network Security InnovatorWebsitewww ranum com Contents 1 Education 2 Career 2 1 Public presentations 2 2 Influence 2 3 Ranum s Law 2 4 Awards 3 Publications 3 1 Articles 3 2 Books 4 Personal life 5 References 6 External linksEducation editMarcus Ranum was born in New York City and graduated from Gilman School in Baltimore Maryland before attending Johns Hopkins University where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1985 2 Career editRanum helped design and implement Digital Equipment Corporation s Secure External Access Link SEAL later AltaVista firewall 3 regarded as the first commercial bastion host firewall 4 in 1990 He left DEC to work for Trusted Information Systems TIS as chief scientist and development manager for Internet security products It was at TIS that Ranum became responsible for the whitehouse gov Internet email site Once charged with that responsibility Ranum advocated that the whitehouse com domain be registered as well 5 Despite his advice it was not registered by the government but was later registered for an adult entertainment provider 6 At TIS he developed the TIS Internet Firewall Toolkit fwtk under a grant from DARPA After TIS he worked for V One as chief scientist and was extensively involved in that company s IPO Three months after that IPO Ranum formed his own company Network Flight Recorder NFR and served as CEO for three years before stepping into a CTO role 7 Ranum later left NFR to consult for TruSecure 8 before joining Tenable Network Security as CSO 9 In addition to his various full time positions Ranum has also held board or advisory positions at NFR Security 10 Protego Networks 11 and Fortify Software 12 Public presentations edit Ranum has spoken to USENIX audiences at LISA 1997 13 1999 tutorial 14 LISA 2000 keynote 15 2002 16 and 2003 tutorial 17 He spoke out against full disclosure at the Black Hat Security Briefings in 2000 18 More recently Ranum has spoken at Interop in 2005 19 and 2007 20 CanSecWest in 2010 and Secure360 in 2011 21 He previously taught courses for the SANS Institute 22 Influence edit Ranum s work has been cited in at least 15 published U S patents 23 as well as numerous other computer and network security articles and books Ranum s Law edit Ranum is cited 24 25 26 as the author 27 of an eponymous law You can t solve social problems with software Awards edit TISC clue award 2000 28 Inducted into the ISSA hall of fame 2000 29 or 2001 30 Techno Security Professional of the Year 2005 31 Publications editArticles edit Marcus has co authored a series of Face Off articles with Bruce Schneier which have appeared approximately bi monthly in Information Security Magazine since July 2006 32 Ranum is one of a number of editors of the SANS Newsbites semiweekly email newsletter 33 Ranum Marcus 1999 11 01 Selling Security Fear Leads to the Dark Side Login USENIX 2000 02 01 The Network Police Blotter Login 20 1 USENIX 2000 04 01 The Network Police Blotter Login 20 2 USENIX 2000 06 01 The Network Police Blotter Login 20 3 USENIX 2000 10 01 The Network Police Blotter PDF Login 20 6 USENIX 2000 12 01 The Network Police Blotter PDF Login 20 8 USENIX Books edit The Myth of Homeland Security ISBN 978 0 471 45879 1 Host Intrusion Monitoring Using Osiris and Samhain with Brian Wotring and Bruce Potter ISBN 978 1 59749 018 4 Web Security Sourcebook with Aviel D Rubin and Dan Geer ISBN 978 0 471 18148 4Personal life editCurrently Ranum lives in Morrisdale Pennsylvania His hobbies include photography and firearms He maintains an active stock photography account on DeviantArt and he wrote an essay for Oleg Volk s pro firearms site www a human right com 34 Marcus Ranum was also interviewed by digital artist Brandon Pence for the NWFLAA which can be read in 2 parts Part 1 and Part 2 He is an atheist 35 maintaining a blog on the Freethought Blogs network 36 References edit Who s Who in Infosec Marcus Ranum Information Security Magazine 2003 06 17 Archived from the original on 2010 08 20 Retrieved 2008 06 07 ZDNet Security Q amp A the father of firewall Comments Interview with Marcus Ranum 2005 06 28 Archived from the original on 2013 11 30 Retrieved 2008 06 07 Avolio Frederic 1999 06 01 Firewalls and Internet Security the Second Hundred Internet Years The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Retrieved 2008 06 07 Miller Sandra Kay 2006 12 01 A Contrarian s Viewpoint Retrieved 2008 06 11 December letter from a White House counsel to the operator of the whitehouse com adult site CNet 1997 12 08 Retrieved 2008 06 11 NFR Intrusion Detection Appliance Version 4 0 Released Business Wire 1999 10 14 Retrieved 2008 06 08 Cisco and Sourcefire Achieve Enterprise Level NIDS Certification from ICSA Labs Business Wire 2003 04 21 Retrieved 2008 06 08 Marcus J Ranum Joins Tenable Network Security as Chief Security Officer Business Wire 2004 10 04 Retrieved 2008 06 08 NFR Security Adds Leading Security Industry Experts to Technology Advisory Board Business Wire 2004 02 02 Retrieved 2008 06 08 Protego Networks 2 5 Industry Icon Marcus Ranum Joins Protego Networks Advisory Board Business Wire 2004 06 01 Retrieved 2008 06 08 Technical Advisory Board Fortify Retrieved 2008 06 08 USENIX Summaries Eleventh Systems Administration Conference LISA 97 USENIX Retrieved 2008 06 07 Tutorial Instructors USENIX Retrieved 2008 06 07 USENIX LISA NT 2000 USENIX Retrieved 2008 06 07 2002 USENIX Technical Conference PDF USENIX Retrieved 2008 06 07 USENIX Security 03 Tutorials USENIX Retrieved 2008 06 07 Lemos Robert 2000 10 09 CERT to disclose software flaws ZDNet co uk Retrieved 2008 06 07 Avolio Fred 2005 05 23 The Same Old Drum Beat Archived from the original on 2008 11 20 Retrieved 2008 06 08 Tenable CISO Workshops during Interop 2007 New York Now Open for Registration PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2008 06 26 Retrieved 2008 06 08 Falling on the sword of Need to Publish Secure360 Archived from the original on 2011 08 26 Retrieved 2011 05 12 SANS Institute Certified Instructors Retrieved 2008 06 07 5 606 668 5 623 601 5 826 029 5 870 562 6 173 407 6 601 233 6 704 873 6 834 310 6 950 868 7 016 951 7 100 195 7 224 778 7 290 288 7 313 812 and 7 360 244 William R Cheswick Steven M Bellovin Aviel D Rubin 2003 Firewalls and Internet Security Repelling the Wily Hacker Addison Wesley Professional pp 202 ISBN 978 0 201 63466 2 Kian Meng Ang 28 February 2014 Ranum s Law www kianmeng org Retrieved 26 April 2023 It was always a people problem rather than a technical issue or as Marcus Ranum put it You can t solve social problems with software Muffett Alec October 2016 Digital Economy Bill Written Evidence Submitted by Alec Muffett DEB 39 www parliament uk UK Parliament Retrieved March 12 2018 Ranum Marcus 16 June 1999 Firewall Wizards mailing list archives seclists org Retrieved 26 April 2023 You can t solve social problems with software TISC to honor Marcus Ranum Internet security pioneer Business Wire 2000 04 17 Retrieved 2008 06 07 Award Honorees ISSA Retrieved 2008 06 07 NFR Security Founder Selected for International Security Association Hall of Fame Business Wire 2006 06 12 Retrieved 2008 06 08 Tenable Network Security Executive Named 2005 Techno Security Professional of the Year Business Wire 2005 06 07 Retrieved 2008 06 07 Articles by Author Bruce Schneier and Marcus Ranum Information Security Magazine Retrieved 2008 06 07 SANS NewsBites Retrieved 2008 06 07 Ranum Marcus The Aesthetics of the Gun Debate Retrieved 2008 06 07 Ranum Marcus Ranum s supports Dawkins s out campaign for atheists Retrieved 12 April 2012 Generally I do not get a lot of satisfaction out of being identified with causes or logos But a couple of years ago when Richard Dawkins started his out campaign for atheists I thought that showing my support was not a bad idea Stderr 23 January 2024 External links editMarcus Ranum s personal website Ranum interview with RationalSecurity 2007 06 25 Security Solutions profile of Ranum 2006 12 01 Ranum interview with IEEE Security and Privacy magazine 2006 09 01 Ranum interview with SecurityFocus 2005 06 21 Ranum s DeviantArt website stock Ranum s DeviantArt website portfolio DojoSec Lecture March 2009 Ranum s discussing the failure of the notion of Cyber warfare Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Marcus J Ranum amp oldid 1199034103, 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