Susan Landau works at the intersection of cybersecurity, national security, law, and policy. During the Crypto Wars of the 1990s, her insights on how government encryption policy skewed civil society and business needs for security helped win the argument for a relaxation of cryptographic export controls. Beginning in the early 2000s, Landau was an early leading voice in the argument that law-enforcement requirements for embedding surveillance within communication infrastructures created long-term national-
Landau is Bridge Professor in Cyber Security and Policy at the The Fletcher School and the School of Engineering , Department of Computer Science , Tufts University and Senior Fellow at The Fletcher School Center for International Law and Governance . Prior to returning to academia, Landau was a Senior Staff Privacy Analyst at Google and a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems . At Sun, Landau worked on digital rights management, privacy and security aspects of federated identity management, and crypto
Landau is a member of the National Academies Division of Engineering and Physical Science Committee , the Committee on International Security Studies , American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and the Center for Democracy and Technology Advisory Council .. She has previously served on the National Academies Forum on Cyber Resilience and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and served on various Academies studies. Landau has also been a member of the advisory committee for the National Science Fo