Mikko Hyppönen | |
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Born | Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen 13 October 1969 [1] |
Nationality | Finnish |
Other names | Mikko Hypponen |
Occupation(s) | Chief Research Officer for
WithSecure Principal Research Advisor for F-Secure |
Awards | CISO MAG Cybersecurity Person of the Year 2020
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#61 Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2011 [3] Virus Bulletin Award for Best educator in the anti-malware industry 2010 [4] [5] #43 on the 50 Most Important People on the Web 2007 list by PC World [6] |
Website | mikko.com |
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈmikːo ˈhypːønen]; born 13 October 1969) is a Finnish computer security expert, speaker and author. [7] He is known for the Hyppönen Law about IoT security, which states that whenever an appliance is described as being "smart", it is vulnerable. [8] He works as the Chief Research Officer at WithSecure (former F-Secure for Business) and as the Principal Research Advisor at F-Secure.
Mikko Hyppönen has worked at F-Secure in Finland since 1991. [5]
Hyppönen has assisted law enforcement in the United States, Europe and Asia since the 1990s on cybercrime cases and advises governments on cyber crime. [9] His team took down the Sobig.F botnet. [10]
In 2004, Hyppönen cooperated with Vanity Fair on a feature, The Code Warrior, which examined his role in defeating the Blaster and Sobig Computer worms. [11]
Hyppönen has given keynotes and presentations at a number of conferences around the world, including Black Hat, DEF CON, DLD, [12] RSA, and V2 Security. [13] In addition to data security events, Hyppönen has delivered talks at general-interest events, such as TED, TEDx, DLD, SXSW, Slush and Google Zeitgeist. He's also spoken at various military events, including AFCEA events and the NATO CCD COE's ICCC. Hyppönen is a reserve officer in the Finnish Army. [14]
Hyppönen is a member of the advisory board of IMPACT (International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats) since 2007 together with Yevgeny Kaspersky, Hamadoun Touré, Fred Piper and John Thompson. [15]
Hyppönen is a columnist for BetaNews and Wired. [16] He has also written on his research for CNN, The New York Times [17] and Scientific American. [18]
In 2011, he was ranked 61st in Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers report. [19]
Hyppönen coined the term "Cybercrime Unicorns" to describe cybercrime organizations that are worth over a billion US dollars - a reference to Startup unicorns [20]
The two greatest tools of our time have been turned into government surveillance tools. I'm talking about the mobile phone and the internet. George Orwell was an optimist.
— Hyppönen on the PRISM surveillance in 2013 [21]
Hyppönen made international news in 2011 [22] [23] when he tracked down and visited the authors of the first PC virus in history, Brain. Hyppönen produced a documentary of the event. The documentary was published on YouTube. [24]
Hyppönen has also been documenting the rise of mobile phone malware since the first smartphone viruses were found. [25]
The blog "News from the Lab", started by Hyppönen in 2004 was the first blog from any antivirus company.
Hyppönen has been credited by Twitter for improving Twitter's security. [26]
Hyppönen has been the Curator for the Malware Museum at The Internet Archive since 2016. [27]
He published his first book in October 2021, [28] and its English translation, If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable, was published in June 2022. [29]