Susan Landau is the author of Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies (MIT Press, 2011). She was until recently a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems , where she concentrated on the interplay between security and public policy. Landau has briefed government officials in both Washington and Europe on such disparate issues as security risks in surveillance mechanisms, digital rights management, and cryptographic export control, and she has written numerous articles and op-eds on these issues. Most recently she testified for the House Science Committee on Cybersecurity Activities at NIST's Information Technology Laboratory. 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 is a member of the Commission on Cyber Security for the 44th Presidency, established by the Center for Strategic and the advisory committee for the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. She is also 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 2008 Women of Vision Social Impact Award, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an ACM Fellow and Distinguished Engineer. Landau received a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship, and writes a blog for The Huffington Post.