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Anat Bremler-Barr

Anat Bremler-Barr (Hebrew: ענת ברמלר-בר), is an Israeli computer scientist. She is a professor at Tel Aviv University who is known for her contributions in network security, specifically in Denial of Service attacks and scalable protection of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Anat Bremler-Barr
Born1972[1]
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materTel Aviv University
Scientific career
Fieldsnetwork security, networking
InstitutionsTel Aviv University
ThesisAlgorithms for efficient and reliable routing in the internet (2002)
Doctoral advisorYehuda Afek
Websitefaculty.idc.ac.il/bremler/

Education and career

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Bremler-Barr holds B.Sc. degrees in mathematics and computer science (1994), an LL.B degree in law (1999), and M.Sc (1997), and Ph.D degree in computer science (2002), all from Tel Aviv University.[1]

In 2001, Bremler-Barr co-founded Riverhead Networks,[2][3] a company that developed an innovative system for the mitigation of Denial of Service attacks, where she served as a chief scientist.[4] Riverhead was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2004.[5] She joined Reichman University in 2003, and was promoted to professor in 2020[1] and, from 2019 until 2021 she served as the deputy dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science.[citation needed] In 2023 she moved to Tel Aviv University where she is a full professor.[6]

Research

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Bremler-Barr is known for her work on network security and improving the reliability of the internet. She has worked on preventing cyberattacks.[7][8] In 2020, Bremler-Barr worked with Yehuda Afek and Lior Shafir to block the NXNSAttack that exploited a vulnerability in Domain Name Systems.[9][10]

Select publications

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  • Bremler-Barr, A.; Levy, H. (2005). "Spoofing prevention method". Proceedings IEEE 24th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Vol. 1. pp. 536–547 vol. 1. doi:10.1109/INFCOM.2005.1497921. ISBN 0-7803-8968-9. S2CID 5566389.
  • Bremler-Barr, Anat; Harchol, Yotam; Hay, David (2016-08-22). "OpenBox". Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Conference. Florianopolis Brazil: ACM. pp. 511–524. doi:10.1145/2934872.2934875. ISBN 978-1-4503-4193-6. S2CID 18859281.
  • Bremler-Barr, Anat; Harchol, Yotam; Hay, David; Koral, Yaron (2014-12-02). "Deep Packet Inspection as a Service". Proceedings of the 10th ACM International on Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies. Sydney Australia: ACM. pp. 271–282. doi:10.1145/2674005.2674984. ISBN 978-1-4503-3279-8. S2CID 3356322.

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Prof. Anat Bremler-Barr | Reichman University (IDC Herzliya)". www.runi.ac.il. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  2. ^ "Anat Bremler-Barr". IEEE. 6 March 2019. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  3. ^ "All the women of Israeli exit".
  4. ^ Messmer, Ellen (2019). Riverhead out to dam off IP floods. International Data Group. Network World.
  5. ^ Dar, Zuri (March 23, 2004). "Cisco buys Israeli start-up Riverhead Networks for $40M". Haaretz.
  6. ^ "Prof. Anat Bremler Barr | Faculty of Exact Sciences Raymond & Beverly Sackler". en-exact-sciences.tau.ac.il. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
  7. ^ "Israeli researchers stop cyberattacks with discovery of major DDoS exploi". The Jerusalem Post (Online), Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Post Ltd. May 22, 2020 – via ProQuest.
  8. ^ Nichols, Shaun (May 21, 2020). "DNS this week stands for Drowning Needed Services: Design flaw in name server system can be exploited to flood machines offline". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2022-09-02.
  9. ^ i24NEWS (May 26, 2020). "Tel Aviv University researchers successfully repel massive attempted cyber attack". I24news. Retrieved 2022-10-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Greenberg, Andy (May 19, 2020). "Web Giants Scrambled to Head Off a Dangerous DDoS Technique". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
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