William Cheswick

William R. Cheswick is an American Internet security expert.

Bill Cheswick went in Lawrenceville (New Jersey) to school ( Lawrenceville School, graduated 1970) and studied at Lehigh University with a bachelor's degree in 1975. Yet at the university, he developed a text editor and worked after graduation as a programmer for the American Newspaper Publishers Association / research Institute and as a systems programmer at computer Sciences Corporation, Warminster, where he dealt primarily with CDC computer systems. 1978 to 1987 he was with the Systems and Computer Technology Corporation, and from 1987 at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill. There he was with Steven M. Bellovin, a pioneer in firewalls, which led to their standard work published in 1994, Firewalls and Internet Security. Both also developed one of the first honeypots. In 1998 he started with Hal Burch, the Internet Mapping Project for graphical display of internet networks. In 2000, he left Bell Labs and was until 2006 a senior scientist for the startup Lumeta, the Internet mapping pursued. 2007-2012 was back at ATT Labs in Florham Park (New Jersey).

In 1990, he coined the term proxy ..

He is also working on software for exhibitions at science museums.

Writings

• Steven M. Bellovin with Firewalls and Internet security: repelling the wily hacker, Addison -Wesley 1994, 2nd edition ( with Aviel D. Rubin) 2003 German translation Firewalls and Internet security: protection against hackers clever, Munich: Addison -Wesley, 2nd edition, 2004