Dorothy E. Denning
Dorothy E. Denning is an American computer-security researcher whose work has addressed cryptography, access control, information warfare, and intrusion detection. She held research and teaching positions at Purdue, SRI International, Digital Equipment Corporation, Georgetown University, and the Naval Postgraduate School.
Intrusion detection
Her 1987 article An Intrusion-Detection Model presented a model for identifying unauthorized activity from audit data. The work is commonly cited in the research history of intrusion-detection systems.
Security research and public discussion
Denning has also written about cryptography policy, cyber conflict, and the interaction between technical security and society. The record of her work illustrates how computer-security research combines formal models, system observation, and public-policy questions.
Timeline
- 1975Completes a Ph.D. in computer science at Purdue University.
- 1983Leaves Purdue for a position at SRI International.
- 1987Publishes An Intrusion-Detection Model in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
- 2008Receives ACM SIGSAC's Outstanding Innovation Award.
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1970s-Present
- Known for
- Intrusion-detection model; Information-flow and access-control research; Computer-security scholarship
- Tags
- computer-security, intrusion-detection, cryptography, access-control, academic-research