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Eugene H. Spafford is a Professor of Computer Sciences at Purdue University with additional appointments as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and courtesy appointments in Philosophy and Communication. He serves as Executive Director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), a campus-wide multi-disciplinary center focused on protecting information and information resources.
Dr. Spafford's research spans multiple critical areas in computing security, with pioneering work that established foundational concepts for the modern security industry. His contributions include the first open security scanner, the first widely-available intrusion detection tool, the first integrity-based control tool, the first multistage firewall, formal bounds on intrusion detection, a reference model of firewalls, and early work in vulnerability classification databases. His current research focuses on public policy and information security, architecture of highly-secure systems, and cyberforensic technologies.
- Fellow of the ACM, AAAS, and IEEE
- Recipient of NIST/NCSC National Computer Systems Security Award (2000)
- Recipient of all three of Purdue University's highest teaching awards
- ISSA Hall of Fame inductee (2001)
- IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2005)
- ACM SIGCAS Making a Difference Award (2004)
Spafford chairs the ACM's U.S. Public Policy Committee, serves on the Computing Research Association Board of Directors, and participates in several corporate advisory boards. He was previously a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC). His extensive publications include over 100 articles and reports plus contributions to more than a dozen books, and he serves on editorial boards of most major information security journals.
