Barrett Lyon

infobox scientist

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name = Barrett Lyon
birth_date = Birth date and age|1978|3|18|df=y
residence =
citizenship =
field = Computer science
work_institutions = Prolexic Technologies
BitGravity
Opte Project
known_for = security, mapping

Barrett Gibson Lyon (born March 18,1978) is known as an "Internet Influencer" has been pushing advancements in the Internet from an entrepreneurial, artistic, and philosophical direction 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] .

He is the creator of the Opte Project, which is an Internet mapping project. The project has gathered support world-wide and is featured at the Boston Museum of Science [cite web | title=Mapping the World Around Us | url=http://www.mos.org/exhibits_shows/current_exhibits&d=213 | publisher = Museum of Science] and The Museum of Modern Art [cite web | title=Design and the Elastic Mind | url=http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=5632&ref=calendar | publisher = Museum of Modern Art] .

Lyon's work tracking Russian Denial of service attack extortion groups has been featured around the globe [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 | publisher=The New Yorker] . He provided details and helped coordinate with multinational law enforcement groups which resulted in the capture of Ivan Maksakov [ cite web | url=http://www.csoonline.com/read/050105/extortion.html | title=A Whiz Kid Took On an Extortionist -- and Won | date=2005-05-01 | first=Scott | last=Berinato | publisher = CSO Magazine] . Maksakov was 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 range in the the tens of millions of dollars. On October 8th 2007, Maksakov and three others were found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison in the Russian Federation with a 100,000 ruble penalty [ cite web | date=2006-10-04 |url=http://www.kommersant.com/page.asp?id=709912 | title=Eight Years for Extorting Millions | publsher = Kommersant] .

During the time Lyon worked with law enforcement, he created the world's first distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) filtering system [http://www.prolexic.com/solutions/cleanpipe/ World first DDoS Defense Service] . The service was provided via his company Prolexic Technologies, which later was sold to an investment group [http://www.prolexic.com/news/20080212-ipvg.php IPVG acquires Prolexic] .

Currently, Lyon is a proponent in advancing the Internet's ability to scale video to the masses [cite web | url=http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=431&doc_id=140183 | title=Betting Against Internet Brownouts | last=Smith | first=Frank | date=2007-10-30] and is the CTO and co-founder of BitGravity a content delivery network [ cite web | url=http://venturebeat.com/2006/12/10/bitgravity-wants-to-shake-up-video-delivery-industry/ | title=BitGravity to shake up video delivery | last=Marshall | first=Matt | publisher=VentureBeat] .

See also

*Opte Project
*BitGravity
*Prolexic
*Denial of service attack
*MoMA
*Network mapping

External links

* [http://www.blyon.com/ Barrett Lyon's web site]
* [http://www.bitgravity.com BitGravity, Inc.]
* [http://www.demo.com/demonstrators/demo2008/124651.html Demo God Awards Introduction of Bitgravity]
* [http://revision3.com/rev3gazette/bitgravity/ Lyon interview with Revision3]
* [http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/the-brains-behind-bitgravity-video-distribution-system Scobleizer TV video interview of Barret Lyon]

References