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词条 Barrett Lyon
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Opte Project

  3. Prolexic

  4. DoS investigation

  5. Business interests

  6. See also

  7. References

  8. External links

{{Infobox scientist
| image = BarrettLyon-FreeImage.jpg
| name = Barrett Lyon
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|3|18|df=y}}
| residence = United States
| citizenship = American
| field = Computer science
| work_institutions = Prolexic Technologies
BitGravity
Opte Project
XDN
Defense.Net
| known_for = Opte Project
}}Barrett Gibson Lyon (born March 18, 1978) is an American Internet entrepreneur, pilot, and artist.[1]

Early life and education

The son of a lawyer, Lyon was raised in Auburn, California.[2] Although he initially struggled in school due to dyslexia, in middle school he became fascinated with computers. He soon found that the methods he used to overcome dyslexia allowed him to quickly gain an expert knowledge of computers.[3] While in high school, he set up Linux servers to host webpages for friends and also managed his school's computer network.[4] In 1995, while investigating a possible vulnerability in Network Solutions he accidentally caused AOL's website to go down for three days.[5] After high school, Lyon enrolled at California State University, Sacramento and studied philosophy and photography.[6]

Opte Project

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. The project was started in October 2003 in an effort to provide a useful Internet map with open source code. The project has gathered support worldwide and is part of the catalogs of the Boston Museum of Science[7] and The Museum of Modern Art.[8]

Prolexic

While working part-time in college for a small network security company, Lyon worked on defending websites against Denial of Service attacks.[9] He soon decided to start Prolexic Technologies to specifically focus on defending websites against such attacks.[10] 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.[11] He soon began giving talks about botnets and DoS attacks at industry meetings.[12] Lyon eventually left Prolexic to start BitGravity.[13] Prolexic was later sold to Akamai Technologies, a Content Delivery Network based in the Boston for $370 million.[14]

DoS investigation

Lyon has been called a hero[15] for his work tracking Russian denial of service attack extortion groups. His work has been featured around the globe[16] and is featured in the cyber thriller Fatal System Error.[17] He provided details and helped coordinate with multinational law enforcement groups which resulted in the capture of Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov.[18] The three men were at the heart of an extortion ring which was extorting money from banks, Internet casinos, and other web based businesses. Reported damages caused by Maksakov, Petrov, and Stenanov range in the tens of millions of dollars. On October 8, 2007, Maksakov, Petrov, Stenanov were found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison in the Russian Federation with a 100,000 ruble penalty.[19]

Business interests

After leaving Prolexic, Lyon co-founded of BitGravity, a content delivery network and served as its chief technology officer. BitGravity focuses on providing content delivery for rich media sources.[20] While at BitGravity, to lessen billing confusion regarding the definition of a GigaByte, Lyon defined an accepted billing amount, coined as the BarretByte.[21]

Lyon left BitGravity in June 2009. BitGravity was acquired in January 2011 by Tata Communications.[22]

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.[23] In November 2012, XDN was acquired by Fortinet.[24]

Lyon then founded Defense.Net in December 2012 to build a DDoS defense network for the modern Internet.[25] In 2014, the company was named one of the 100 Hottest Private Companies in North America by Red Herring[26] and acquired shortly after by F5 Networks purportedly for between $50 and $100 million.[27]

Lyon formerly worked as Head of Security Research and Development for Neustar[28]. He has operated a Laser Production company[29] along with designing camping equipment for Alien Buffalo[30]. Recently he announced a new venture Netography [31], with seed funding from Andreesson Horowitz.

See also

  • Opte Project
  • BitGravity
  • Fatal System Error
  • Prolexic
  • Denial of service attack
  • MoMA
  • Network mapping
  • Defense.Net
  • Buffalo Tent
  • [https://www.netography.com Netography]

References

1. ^{{cite web |title=Barrett Lyon: Internet Influencer |first=Richard |last=Stiennon |url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=350 |date=2006-06-26 |publisher=Zdnet |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512020310/http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=350 |archivedate=2008-05-12 |df= }}
2. ^{{Cite book | last1 = Menn | first1 = Joseph | title = Fatal System Error | location = New York | publisher = Public Affairs Books | year= 2010 | pages = 14 | isbn = 978-1-58648-748-5 }}
3. ^{{Cite book | last1 = Menn | first1 = Joseph | title = Fatal System Error | location = New York | publisher = Public Affairs Books | year= 2010 | pages = 15 | isbn = 978-1-58648-748-5 }}
4. ^{{Cite book | last1 = Menn | first1 = Joseph | title = Fatal System Error | location = New York | publisher = Public Affairs Books | year= 2010 | pages = 16 | isbn = 978-1-58648-748-5 }}
5. ^{{Cite book | last1 = Menn | first1 = Joseph | title = Fatal System Error | location = New York | publisher = Public Affairs Books | year= 2010 | pages = 17 | isbn = 978-1-58648-748-5 }}
6. ^{{Cite book | last1 = Menn | first1 = Joseph | title = Fatal System Error | location = New York | publisher = Public Affairs Books | year= 2010 | pages = 19 | isbn = 978-1-58648-748-5 }}
7. ^{{cite web | title=Mapping the World Around Us | url=http://www.mos.org/exhibits_shows/current_exhibits&d=213 | publisher = Museum of Science}}
8. ^{{cite web | title=The Collection | url=http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A33129&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1 | publisher = Museum of Modern Art}}
9. ^{{Cite book | last1 = Menn | first1 = Joseph | title = Fatal System Error | location = New York | publisher = Public Affairs Books | year= 2010 | pages = 20 | isbn = 978-1-58648-748-5 }}
10. ^{{Cite book | last1 = Menn | first1 = Joseph | title = Fatal System Error | location = New York | publisher = Public Affairs Books | year= 2010 | pages = 23 | isbn = 978-1-58648-748-5 }}
11. ^{{Cite book | last1 = Menn | first1 = Joseph | title = Fatal System Error | location = New York | publisher = Public Affairs Books | year= 2010 | pages = 67 | isbn = 978-1-58648-748-5 }}
12. ^{{Cite book | last1 = Menn | first1 = Joseph | title = Fatal System Error | location = New York | publisher = Public Affairs Books | year= 2010 | pages = 70 | isbn = 978-1-58648-748-5 }}
13. ^{{ cite web | url=https://venturebeat.com/2006/12/10/bitgravity-wants-to-shake-up-video-delivery-industry/ | title=BitGravity to shake up video delivery | last=Marshall | first=Matt | work=VentureBeat}}
14. ^{{cite web | title= Akamai buying Prolexic for about $370 million | agency=Associated Press | date=2013-12-02 | url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/akamai-buying-prolexic-370-million-113523849.html | publisher=AP}}
15. ^{{cite web | title=Fighting Cybercrime, One Digital Thug At A Time | url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122958695 | publisher = NPR|work=Fresh Air}}
16. ^{{cite web | title=The Zombie Hunters | first=Evan | last=Ratliff | date=2005-10-10 | url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/10/051010fa_fact | work=The New Yorker}}
17. ^{{cite web |title=Fatal System Error |first=Joseph |last=Menn |date=2010-01-26 |url=http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781586487485 |publisher=PublicAffairs Books |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107105559/http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/publicaffairsbooks-cgi-bin/display?book=9781586487485 |archivedate=2010-01-07 |df= }}
18. ^{{ cite web | url=http://www.csoonline.com/article/2118109/fraud-prevention/how-a-bookmaker-and-a-whiz-kid-took-on-a-ddos-based-online-extortion-attack.html | title=How a Bookmaker and a Whiz Kid Took On a DDOS-based Online Extortion Attack | date=2005-05-01 | first=Scott | last=Berinato | work = CSO Magazine}}
19. ^{{ cite web | date=2006-10-04 | url=http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=709912 | title=Eight Years for Extorting Millions | work=Kommersant | deadurl=yes | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016130145/http://kommersant.com/page.asp?id=709912 | archivedate=2007-10-16 | df= }}
20. ^BitGravity challenges Akamai and Limelight ZDNet, Dan Farber. September 30, 2007
21. ^{{cite web |title=The Baretbyte |url=http://www.blyon.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/20/the-barretbyte/ |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726031628/http://www.blyon.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/20/the-barretbyte/ |archivedate=2010-07-26 |df= }}
22. ^Tata Acquires BitGravity for Content Delivery
23. ^[https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63M3BN20100423 Cloud computing startup 3Crowd raises $6.6 million] Reuters, Alastair Goldfisher. April 23, 2010
24. ^Fortinet Acquires CDN and App Delivery Platform Provider XDN
25. ^Start-up Defense.Net debuts with anti-DDoS service {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031144649/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/080613-defense-net-272464.html |date=October 31, 2013 }}
26. ^{{Cite web |url=http://www.redherring.com/events/rhna/2014-red-herring-north-america-winners/|title= 2014 Red Herring North America: Winners |date=20 April 2014 |work=Red Herring}}
27. ^{{Cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2014/05/22/network-company-f5-buys-ddos-prevention-startup-defense-net/|title= Network company F5 buys DDoS prevention startup Defense.net |last=Novet |first=Jordan |date=22 May 2014 |publisher=VentureBeat}}
28. ^https://www.neustar.biz/about-us/news-room/press-releases/2017/lyon
29. ^https://megalasers.us
30. ^http://alienbuffalo.com
31. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190207005238/en/Netography-Emerges-2.6M-Funding-Andreessen-Horowitz-Network|title=Netography Emerges with $2.6M Funding from Andreessen Horowitz to Make Network Security Self Governing|date=2019-02-07|website=www.businesswire.com|language=en|access-date=2019-02-20}}

External links

  • Barrett Lyon's web site
  • Xchange Delivery Network
  • BitGravity, Inc.
  • Demo God Awards Introduction of Bitgravity
  • Lyon interview with Revision3
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080822102039/http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/the-brains-behind-bitgravity-video-distribution-system Scobleizer TV video interview of Barrett Lyon]
  • [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122958695 Radio interview on NPR's Fresh Air]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031144649/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/080613-defense-net-272464.html Lyon Launched Defense.Net]
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