Anat Bremler-Barr Explained

Anat Bremler-Barr
Birth Date:	1972^[1]
Nationality:	Israeli
Workplaces:	Tel Aviv University
Alma Mater:	Tel Aviv University
Thesis Title:	Algorithms for efficient and reliable routing in the internet
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/
Thesis Year:	2002
Doctoral Advisor:	Yehuda Afek

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.

Education and career

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 and, from 2019 until 2021 she served as the deputy dean of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science. In 2023 she moved to Tel Aviv University where she is a full professor.^[6]

Research

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

• Book: Bremler-Barr . A. . Levy . H. . Proceedings IEEE 24th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies . Spoofing prevention method . 2005 . https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1497921 . 1 . 536–547 vol. 1 . 10.1109/INFCOM.2005.1497921. 0-7803-8968-9 . 5566389 .
• Book: Bremler-Barr . Anat . Harchol . Yotam . Hay . David . Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Conference . OpenBox . 2016-08-22 . https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2934872.2934875 . en . Florianopolis Brazil . ACM . 511–524 . 10.1145/2934872.2934875 . 978-1-4503-4193-6. 18859281 .
• Book: Bremler-Barr . Anat . Harchol . Yotam . Hay . David . Koral . Yaron . Proceedings of the 10th ACM International on Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies . Deep Packet Inspection as a Service . 2014-12-02 . https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2674005.2674984 . en . Sydney Australia . ACM . 271–282 . 10.1145/2674005.2674984 . 978-1-4503-3279-8. 3356322 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prof. Anat Bremler-Barr Reichman University (IDC Herzliya) . 2022-09-02 . www.runi.ac.il . en-US.
2. Web site: 6 March 2019 . Anat Bremler-Barr . 2022-09-02 . IEEE.
3. Web site: All the women of Israeli exit.
4. Book: Messmer, Ellen . Riverhead out to dam off IP floods . Network World . International Data Group . 2019.
5. News: Dar . Zuri . March 23, 2004 . Cisco buys Israeli start-up Riverhead Networks for $40M . Haaretz .
6. Web site: Prof. Anat Bremler Barr Faculty of Exact Sciences Raymond & Beverly Sackler . 2023-04-10 . en-exact-sciences.tau.ac.il.
7. News: May 22, 2020 . Israeli researchers stop cyberattacks with discovery of major DDoS exploi . The Jerusalem Post (Online), Jerusalem: The Jerusalem Post Ltd. . ProQuest.
8. Web site: 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 . 2022-09-02 . www.theregister.com . en.
9. Web site: i24NEWS . May 26, 2020 . Tel Aviv University researchers successfully repel massive attempted cyber attack . 2022-10-31 . I24news . en.
10. Greenberg . Andy . May 19, 2020 . Web Giants Scrambled to Head Off a Dangerous DDoS Technique . en-US . Wired . 2022-10-31 . 1059-1028.