Susan Landau works in the areas of cybersecurity, privacy, and public policy. A 2012 Guggenheim fellow, Landau was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and has been a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Wesleyan University. She has held visiting positions at Harvard, Cornell, and Yale, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Landau is the author of Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies (MIT Press, 2011), and co-author, with Whitfield Diffie, of Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (MIT Press, 1998, rev. ed. 2007). She has written numerous computer science and public policy papers, as well as op-eds on cybersecurity and encryption policy. In 2011 Landau testified for the House Judiciary Committee on security risks in wiretapping, while in 2009 she testified for the House Science Committee on Cybersecurity Activities at NIST's Information Technology Laboratory. Landau serves on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. Landau was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is the recipient of the 2008 Women of Vision Social Impact Award, and is a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Computing Machinery.
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