12 Facts About Marcus Ranum

Marcus Ranum is credited with a number of innovations in firewalls, including building the first Internet email server for the whitehouse.

Marcus Ranum 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 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.

Marcus Ranum helped design and implement Digital Equipment Corporation's Secure External Access Link, regarded as the first commercial bastion host firewall, in 1990.

Three months after that IPO, Marcus Ranum formed his own company, Network Flight Recorder, and served as CEO for three years before stepping into a CTO role.

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Marcus Ranum later left NFR to consult for TruSecure, before joining Tenable Network Security as CSO.

Marcus Ranum spoke out against full disclosure at the Black Hat Security Briefings in 2000.

Marcus Ranum 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.

Marcus Ranum is one of a number of editors of the SANS Newsbites semiweekly email newsletter.

Marcus Ranum maintains an active stock photography account on DeviantArt, and he wrote an essay for Oleg Volk's pro-firearms site.

Marcus Ranum was interviewed by digital artist Brandon Pence for the NWFLAA which can be read in 2 parts: Part 1 and Part 2.

Marcus Ranum is an atheist, maintaining a blog on the Freethought Blogs network.