Susan Landau

Susan Landau is Bridge Professor of Cyber Security and Policy at The Fletcher School and the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Tufts University. Landau works at the intersection of cybersecurity, national security, law, and policy. Her book, "People Count: Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health, " will be published in 2021 by MIT Press; Landau is also the author of "Listening In: Cybersecurity in an Insecure Age" (Yale University Press, 2017), "Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies," (MIT Press, 2011) and "Privacy on the Line: the Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption," co-authored with Whitfield Diffie (MIT Press, 1998). Landau has testified before Congress on encryption, surveillance, and cybersecurity issues. Landau served as a Senior Staff Privacy Analyst at Google, a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and a faculty member at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the University of Massachusetts, and Wesleyan University. An inductee in both the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame and the Information System Security Association Hall of Fame and Guggenheim fellow, Landau is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Association for Computing Machinery.