Barrett Lyon
Barrett Lyon | |
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Born | 18 March 1978 |
Nationality | American |
Known for | Opte Project |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
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Barrett Gibson Lyon (born March 18, 1978) is an American
Early life and education
The son of a lawyer, Lyon was raised in
Opte Project
Lyon is the creator of the
Prolexic
While working part-time in college for a small network security company, Lyon worked on defending websites against Denial of Service attacks.[12] He soon decided to start Prolexic Technologies to specifically focus on defending websites against such attacks.[13] His initial customers were online casinos which were facing extortionist threats from operators of Denial of Service attacks. After helping bring a Russian hacker to justice, Lyon's publicity allowed him to gain many new clients from outside of the gambling industry.[14] He soon began giving talks about botnets and DoS attacks at industry meetings.[15] Lyon eventually left Prolexic to start BitGravity.[16] Prolexic was later sold to Akamai Technologies, a content delivery network based in Boston for $370 million.[17]
Netography
Lyon was the CEO of his startup Netography,[18][19] until intrusion detection pioneer and creator of Snort, Martin Roesch was appointed in August 2022.[20] Roesch as CEO and chair of the Board, Lyon as Chief Architect, and co-founder Dan Murphy as CTO, then raised $45M from Andreessen Horowitz and SYN Ventures.
DoS investigation
Lyon has been called a hero
Business interests
After leaving Prolexic, Lyon co-founded of BitGravity, a
Lyon left BitGravity in June 2009. BitGravity was acquired in January 2011 by Tata Communications.[30]
In 2009 with funding from Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose, he founded XDN. XDN's first products provide businesses with greater control over existing content delivery networks by allowing them to use CDN's based on factors like price and service.[31] In November 2012, XDN was acquired by Fortinet.[32]
Lyon then founded
Lyon formerly worked as Head of Security Research and Development for U.S. telecommunications firm,[36] Neustar.[37] He has operated a Laser Production company[38] along with designing camping equipment for Alien Buffalo.[citation needed] Recently he announced a new venture Netography and currently serves as Chief Architect,[39] with seed funding from Andreesson Horowitz and Mango Capital.
Lyon was an investor in Sr. Pago, which was acquired by Konfio in 2021.[40] He is also a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS).[41]
See also
- Opte Project
- Fatal System Error
- Prolexic
- Denial of service attack
- MoMA
- Network mapping
- Defense.Net
References
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- ^ "5 Questions, Answers About The Megaupload Case". NPR.
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- ^ "Mapping the World Around Us". Museum of Science. Archived from the original on June 24, 2012. Retrieved February 17, 2008.
- ^ "The Collection". Museum of Modern Art.
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- ^ Marshall, Matt (December 11, 2006). "BitGravity to shake up video delivery". VentureBeat.
- ^ "Akamai buying Prolexic for about $370 million". AP. Associated Press. December 2, 2013.
- ^ "Florida teen arrested after embarrassingly simple cyberattack on Miami schools". Gizmodo. September 6, 2020. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
- ^ Zurier, Steve (August 28, 2020). "NYSE not susceptible to takedown like New Zealand exchange". SC Media. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
- ^ Kirby, Stephen Babcock, Donte (September 20, 2021). "Power Moves: Sourcefire founder Martin Roesch is the new CEO of Annapolis-based Netography". Technical.ly. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Fighting Cybercrime, One Digital Thug At A Time". Fresh Air. NPR.
- ^ Ratliff, Evan (October 10, 2005). "The Zombie Hunters". The New Yorker.
- ^ Menn, Joseph (January 26, 2010). "Fatal System Error". PublicAffairs Books. Archived from the original on January 7, 2010.
- ^ Berinato, Scott (May 1, 2005). "How a Bookmaker and a Whiz Kid Took On a DDOS-based Online Extortion Attack". CSO Magazine.
- ^ "Eight Years for Extorting Millions". Kommersant. October 4, 2006. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007.
- ^ "Fighting Cybercrime, One Digital Thug At A Time". NPR.
- ^ The Fastest-Growing Social Network for Mobile Phones, retrieved April 14, 2023
- ^ BitGravity challenges Akamai and Limelight ZDNet, Dan Farber. September 30, 2007
- ^ "The Baretbyte". Archived from the original on July 26, 2010.
- ^ Tata Acquires BitGravity for Content Delivery
- ^ Cloud computing startup 3Crowd raises $6.6 million Reuters, Alastair Goldfisher. April 23, 2010
- ^ Fortinet Acquires CDN and App Delivery Platform Provider XDN
- ^ Start-up Defense.Net debuts with anti-DDoS service Archived October 31, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "2014 Red Herring North America: Winners". Red Herring. April 20, 2014.
- ^ Novet, Jordan (May 22, 2014). "Network company F5 buys DDoS prevention startup Defense.net". VentureBeat.
- ^ "Cyber attack on Mexico campaign site triggers election nerves". Reuters. June 13, 2018. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
- ^ "Neustar Hires Barrett Lyon to Head Research and Development of Security Solutions".
- ^ "Megalasers". Archived from the original on September 2, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2019.
- ^ "Martin Roesch joins Netography as CEO". Help Net Security. September 15, 2021. Retrieved September 23, 2021.
- ^ Lawler, Ryan (July 14, 2014). "With $1 Million In Funding, Sr.Pago Is Ready To Serve Mexico's Unbanked". TechCrunch. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
- ^ "Barrett Lyon - IADAS". Retrieved April 14, 2023.