1. Barrett Gibson Lyon was born on March 18,1978 and is an American Internet entrepreneur, security researcher, and a former hacker.
13 Facts About Barrett Lyon
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The son of a lawyer, Lyon was raised in Auburn, California.
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Barrett Lyon soon found that the methods he used to overcome dyslexia allowed him to quickly gain expert knowledge of computers.
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Barrett Lyon is the creator of the Opte Project, which is an Internet mapping project that seeks to make an accurate representation of the extent of the Internet using visual graphics.
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Barrett Lyon soon decided to start Prolexic Technologies to specifically focus on defending websites against such attacks.
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Barrett Lyon soon began giving talks about botnets and DoS attacks at industry meetings.
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Barrett Lyon was the CEO of his startup Netography, until intrusion detection pioneer and creator of Snort, Martin Roesch was appointed in August 2022.
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Barrett Lyon has been called a hero for his work tracking Russian denial of service attack extortion groups.
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Barrett Lyon's work has been featured around the globe and is featured in the book Fatal System Error.
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Barrett Lyon provided details and helped coordinate with multinational law enforcement groups which resulted in the capture of Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov.
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Barrett Lyon formerly worked as Head of Security Research and Development for US telecommunications firm, Neustar.
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Barrett Lyon has operated a Laser Production company along with designing camping equipment for Alien Buffalo.
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Barrett Lyon is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.