Key Entities in computer science

A list of key individuals who have made significant contributions to computer science.

Key Figures

• Richard Stallman
  • Description - An American free software movement activist and programmer.
  • Link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman
• Guido van Rossum
  • Description - A Dutch programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language.
  • Link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum

Influencers

• Itsoknoproblembro
  • Description - A security researcher and content creator.
  • Link - https://www.youtube.com/c/itsoknoproblembro

• [Figure Name]
  • Description - A brief description of their recent or ongoing work.
  • Link - [Link to personal website, publications, or social media]

Companies

• Hybrid Analysis
  • Description - A free malware analysis service by CrowdStrike for detecting and analyzing unknown threats.
  • Link - https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/
• Imperva
  • Description - A cybersecurity company that provides protection for data and applications.
  • Link - https://www.imperva.com/
• Aqua Security Software Ltd.
  • Description - A security company specializing in cloud native applications.
  • Link - https://www.aquasec.com/
• Cyberark
  • Description - An identity security company.
  • Link - https://www.cyberark.com/
• Lightricks
  • Description - A software company that develops video and image editing mobile apps.
  • Link - https://www.lightricks.com/
• appsflyer
  • Description - A SaaS mobile marketing analytics and attribution platform.
  • Link - https://www.appsflyer.com/
• forter
  • Description - A SaaS company that provides fraud prevention technology for online retailers and marketplaces.
  • Link - https://www.forter.com/
• silverfort
  • Description - A cybersecurity company that provides a unified identity protection platform.
  • Link - https://www.silverfort.com/
• Joesecurity – joe sandbox cloud
  • Description - A deep malware analysis sandbox.
  • Link - https://www.joesecurity.org/
• namecheap
  • Description - A domain name registrar and web hosting company.
  • Link - https://www.namecheap.com/
• Firedome
  • Description - An IoT security company.
  • Link - https://firedome.io/
• Arena
  • Description - A discrete event simulation and automation software.
  • Link - https://www.arenasimulation.com/
• Linode
  • Description - A cloud hosting company.
  • Link - https://www.linode.com/
• Cybereason
  • Description - A cybersecurity company.
  • Link - https://www.cybereason.com/
• Pagaya
  • Description - An asset management firm that uses machine learning and big data analytics to manage institutional and private assets.
  • Link - https://www.pagaya.com/
• SAS Institute
  • Description - A multinational developer of analytics software.
  • Link - https://www.sas.com/
• Feedzai
  • Description - A data science company that sells AI-powered software for fraud and money laundering detection.
  • Link - https://feedzai.com/
• Appuse
  • Description - A platform for testing mobile applications.
  • Link - https://appuse.io/
• Applitools
  • Description - An application visual management and AI-powered visual UI testing platform.
  • Link - https://applitools.com/
• Digitalocean
  • Description - A cloud infrastructure provider.
  • Link - https://www.digitalocean.com/
• HashiCorp
  • Description - A software company with a freemium business model based on its open-source tools.
  • Link - https://www.hashicorp.com/
• Oracle Ravello
  • Description - A cloud service that enables to run VMware and KVM based workloads in the public cloud.
  • Link - https://www.ravellosystems.com/
• 0x00sec
  • Description - A community for cybersecurity enthusiasts.
  • Link - https://0x00sec.org/
• Netapp
  • Description - A hybrid cloud data services and data management company.
  • Link - https://www.netapp.com/
• Redis
  • Description - An in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker.
  • Link - https://redis.io/
• Minio browser
  • Description - A graphical user interface for MinIO Server.
  • Link - https://min.io/
• Brave browser
  • Description - A free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser.
  • Link - https://brave.com/
• suse
  • Description - A German-based multinational open-source software company.
  • Link - https://wwwsuse.com/
• Alteon WebSystems
  • Description - A manufacturer of load balancing equipment.
  • Link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alteon_WebSystems
• jfrog
  • Description - A software company that provides a platform for software developers to manage and distribute their software.
  • Link - https://jfrog.com/
• VMware
  • Description - A software company that provides cloud computing and virtualization software and services.
  • Link - https://www.vmware.com/
• Oracle Golden Gate
  • Description - A software product that allows you to replicate, filter, and transform data from one database to another.
  • Link - https://www.oracle.com/integration/goldengate/
• data guard
  • Description - A feature of the Oracle database that provides a comprehensive set of services that create, maintain, manage, and monitor one or more standby databases to enable production Oracle databases to survive disasters and data corruptions.
  • Link - https://www.oracle.com/database/data-guard/
• thanos github (thanos io)
  • Description - A set of components that can be composed into a highly available metric system with unlimited storage capacity, which can be added seamlessly on top of existing Prometheus deployments.
  • Link - https://thanos.io/
• stackalytics
  • Description - A web application that provides analytics for OpenStack development.
  • Link - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Stackalytics
• Rundeck (ansible)
  • Description - An open-source automation tool for running tasks on a set of nodes.
  • Link - https://www.rundeck.com/
• postgrass
  • Description - A free and open-source relational database management system emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance.
  • Link - https://www.postgresql.org/
• mongoDB
  • Description - A source-available cross-platform document-oriented database program.
  • Link - https://www.mongodb.com/
• Pxelinux
  • Description - A bootloader for Linux systems that allows them to be booted over a network.
  • Link - https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=PXELINUX
• System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
  • Description - A cross-platform data center monitoring system for operating systems and hypervisors.
  • Link - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/welcome
• itm monitoring
  • Description - A set of tools for monitoring and managing systems.
  • Link - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSTFXA_6.3.0/com.ibm.itm.doc_6.3/welcome.htm
• objectserver
  • Description - A high-performance, in-memory database that is the core of Netcool/OMNIbus.
  • Link - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSSHTQ_8.1.0/com.ibm.netcool_OMNIbus.doc_8.1.0/omnibus/wip/install/concept/omn_con_core_objectserver.html
• edureka
  • Description - An online learning platform.
  • Link - https://www.edureka.co/
• Katacoda
  • Description - An interactive learning platform for software engineers.
  • Link - https://www.katacoda.com/
• PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
  • Description - A multinational professional services network of firms.
  • Link - https://www.pwc.com/
• acronis true image
  • Description - A software product that provides data protection for personal users including, backup, archive, access and recovery for Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android operating systems.
  • Link - https://www.acronis.com/en-us/products/true-image/
• Fabric react
  • Description - A responsive, mobile-first, front-end framework.
  • Link - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/fluentui#/
• afl-unicorn
  • Description - A fuzzer for emulating and fuzzing binaries.
  • Link - https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFL-Unicorn
• cargo fuzz / rust fuzz
  • Description - A command-line fuzzer for Rust.
  • Link - https://github.com/rust-fuzz/cargo-fuzz
• nexmon
  • Description - A C-based firmware patching framework for Broadcom/Cypress WiFi chips that enables you to write your own firmware patches.
  • Link - https://github.com/seemoo-lab/nexmon
• space cloud (github)
  • Description - A Kubernetes-based serverless platform that provides instant, real-time APIs on top of any database.
  • Link - https://github.com/spaceuptech/space-cloud
• op tee
  • Description - An open source Trusted Execution Environment.
  • Link - https://www.op-tee.org/
• OSSIM
  • Description - An open source security information and event management system.
  • Link - https://www.alienvault.com/products/ossim
• Nessus
  • Description - A proprietary vulnerability scanner.
  • Link - https://www.tenable.com/products/nessus
• Sqlmap
  • Description - An open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers.
  • Link - https://sqlmap.org/
• Maltego
  • Description - A software used for open-source intelligence and forensics.
  • Link - https://www.maltego.com/
• Aircrack-ng
  • Description - A network software suite consisting of a detector, packet sniffer, WEP and WPA/WPA2-PSK cracker and analysis tool for 802.11 wireless LANs.
  • Link - https://www.aircrack-ng.org/
• OpenVAS
  • Description - A software framework of several services and tools offering vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management.
  • Link - https://www.openvas.org/
• Zenmap
  • Description - The official Nmap Security Scanner GUI.
  • Link - https://nmap.org/zenmap/
• Snort
  • Description - A free and open-source network intrusion prevention system and network intrusion detection system.
  • Link - https://www.snort.org/
• Hashcat
  • Description - A password recovery tool.
  • Link - https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
• Armitage (computing)
  • Description - A graphical cyber attack management tool for the Metasploit Project.
  • Link - https://www.fastandeasyhacking.com/
• w3af
  • Description - A web application attack and audit framework.
  • Link - http://w3af.org/
• Grunt
  • Description - A JavaScript task runner.
  • Link - https://gruntjs.com/
• Gedit
  • Description - A text editor for the GNOME desktop environment.
  • Link - https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit
• AkelPad
  • Description - A small, expandable text editor for Windows.
  • Link - http://akelpad.sourceforge.net/en/index.php
• Cloud9 IDE
  • Description - An online integrated development environment.
  • Link - https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/
• Wakanda (software)
  • Description - A JavaScript platform for developing web and mobile applications.
  • Link - https://wakanda.io/
• pyEMU
  • Description - A Python-based x86 emulator.
  • Link - https://github.com/lameg/pyemu
• cryptomove
  • Description - A data security company.
  • Link - https://www.cryptomove.com/
• cybrary
  • Description - A cybersecurity and IT training platform.
  • Link - https://www.cybrary.it/

Organizations

• [Organization Name]
  • Description - Brief description of their role and mission.
  • Link - [Link to personal website, publications, or social media]

Academic & Research Institutions

• [Institution Name]
  • Description - Brief description of their focus and contributions.
  • Link - [Link to personal website, publications, or social media]