Susan Landau
Landau's scholarship demonstrates that technical security and privacy cannot be separated from legal and policy choices. Her work on encryption and surveillance has informed public debates as well as security research.
Susan Landau is a professor of cybersecurity and policy at Tufts University. Her research and public work address the intersection of privacy, communications surveillance, cybersecurity, and law.
Encryption, privacy, and policy
With Whitfield Diffie, Landau wrote Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, a book examining encryption policy, law enforcement, national security, and civil liberties. She has also written and testified on related policy questions.
Bridging disciplines
Landau has held academic and industry roles, including at Google and Sun Microsystems. USENIX awarded its 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award jointly to Landau, Steven Bellovin, and Matt Blaze for work connecting computer science, computer security, law, and public policy.
Timeline
- 1983Completes a Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- 1998Privacy on the Line is published by MIT Press with Whitfield Diffie.
- 2023Receives the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award with Steven Bellovin and Matt Blaze.
- 2024Receives the American Mathematical Society's Bertrand Russell Prize.
Susan Landau
- Type
- Person
- Era
- 1980s-Present
- Known for
- Privacy on the Line; Encryption and surveillance policy; Cybersecurity and public policy
- Tags
- cybersecurity-policy, privacy, encryption, surveillance, academic-research
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