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Susan Landau is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems , where she concentrates on the interplay between security and public policy. Landau has briefed government officials in both Washington and Europe on such disparate issues as digital rights management, security risks in surveillance mechanisms, and cryptographic export control and has written numerous articles on these issues. She and Whitfield Diffie wrote Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption. Landau has also worked on privacy and security aspects of digital rights management and federated identity management. Landau served for six years on the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. Currently she is an associate editor for IEEE Security and Privacy and a section board member of Communications of the ACM. She maintains researcHers, a mailing list for women computer science researchers. Before joining Sun, Landau was a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and Wesleyan University. Landau is the recipient of the
Women of Vision for Social Impact, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, 2008 - (May 8, 2008)
ACM Distinguished Engineer - (Sep 30, 2006)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science - (Sep 15, 1999)
IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession (with Whitfield Diffie) - (Sep 7, 1999)
McGannon Book Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communication Policy Research, Donald McGannon Communication Research Center, Fordham University (with Whitfield Diffie) - (Apr 28, 1998)
