Michael Reed's contributions to seminal 1997 paper on anonymous connections honored for its enduring influence in security and privacy
RESTON, VA – May 18, 2020 – MantisNet, a leading network detection and response software company that simplifies the process to access and extract actionable intelligence in real-time and at wire-speeds, today announced its Vice President of Engineering, Michael Reed, has received the distinguished IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy "Test of Time" award for his contributions to work with Paul Syverson and David Goldschlag entitled "Anonymous Connections and Onion Routing" published in 1997.
“The project started with a simple question; ‘is there a way to create internet connections that don't reveal who is talking to whom.’ As with all good ideas and technologies, it has since come to be so much more significant. It has since proven to be a tool, a community and a movement. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work with my co-inventors to help answer a simple question and be part of producing something that has since grown into something so significant,” said Reed.
The IEEE Security and Privacy "Test of Time" award is intended to recognize papers published at IEEE's flagship security conference that have made a lasting impact on the field.
To qualify for an award, a paper must have been published at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy ("S&P") between 10 and 12 years prior. Each year, the awards selection committee is charged to select one or more winners from among the eligible set using their own experience and knowledge.
“Our committee looked for publications that were as rich in their foresight as in their technical and research contributions," said Avi Rubin, 2020 IEEE S&P Test of Time Award selection committee chair and professor at Johns Hopkins University. "The selected papers have made a lasting impact on the field, transforming the research landscape with novel ideas that correctly predicted the direction of the field and the industry."
About the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Since 1980 in Oakland, Calif., the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for computer security research, presenting the latest developments and bringing together researchers and practitioners. The symposium solicits previously unpublished papers offering novel research contributions in any aspect of security or privacy. Papers may present advances in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, verification, or empirical evaluation and measurement of secure systems.
About the Tor Project
The mission of the Tor project is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding. For more information, visit https://www.torproject.org/
About Mantis Networks
MantisNet develops Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and network intelligence solutions that provide businesses and governments real-time network monitoring solutions. MantisNet’s solutions enable teams to better monitor, manage and engineer the network traffic flows as compared to traditional packet brokers, firewalls and event management solutions. MantisNet solutions provide end-to-end visibility through wire-speed network monitoring and protocol analysis (from the L2 to L7 layers) and provide the capability for real-time engineering and remediation to act on network threats such as operational issues, threats, fraud, and malicious activities, either manually or autonomously. MantisNet solutions are deployed at leading telecom, service providers, test labs and government installations. We work to make network detection and response actionable for a broad range of DevOps, network and application performance testing, streaming analytics, and cyber security applications. For more information, visit https://www.mantisnet.com
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