Yehuda Afek (; September 1952) is an Israeli

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and is known for his work on network cyber security and fault tolerant distributed computing. Yehuda cofounded Riverhead Networks in 2000 and was the head of the School of Computer Science in Tel Aviv University in 2014–2016.

Biography

Afek was born in

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in 1952 to Holocaust survivor parents
Miriam
and Menachem Pinkhof) who were among the founders of the Dutch underground Westerweel Group who saved over 300 Jewish youths during the Holocaust until they were captured by the Nazis. They both received the Jewish holocaust rescuer Medal. Afek studied at the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, and in 1970 enlisted in the IDF where he served as a fighter in a special elite operations unit ( Sayeret Matkal), a service that was extended due to the

Yom Kippur War The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab world, Arab states led by Egypt and S ...

. In 1978 he earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the Technion. In 1978-1980 he worked as an IDF civilian engineer, developing the avionics unit and autopilot of the first successful UAV manufactured by the Israeli Air Force. In 1980-1985 he earned an MSc and PhD respectively, in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). From 1985 to 1988, he worked as a researcher at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. In 1988 he joined the faculty in the Department of Computer Science at

, where he is currently a full professor. He also served as head of the School of Computer Science from 2014 to 2016. In 2000 Afek was the lead founder of Riverhead Networks, a company that provided a mitigation system to distributed denial of service attacks. The Riverhead Guard product was deployed to tens of thousands of sites, protecting them from multi Gbps attacks. Riverhead was acquired by

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in 2004, after which Afek remained CTO and director in Cisco Israel until May 2009.

References

External links

* Yehuda Afek's Tel-Aviv Universit
web page
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profile

NXNSAttack: Recursive DNS Inefficiencies and Vulnerabilities
USENIX Security Symposium 2020: 631-648
Diversion and Sieving Techniques to Defeat DDoS attacksNANOG23
Oct 23rd 200
slides

MPLS-Based Synchronous Traffic ShuntNANOG28
Jan 3rd 2003
slides
{{DEFAULTSORT:Afek, Yehuda 1952 births Living people Israeli computer scientists Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni Scientists from Haifa Academic staff of Tel Aviv University