Nielsen Receives 2024 Cyber Security Hall of Fame Honor

SEI director and chief executive officer Paul Nielsen was inducted into the Cyber Security Hall of Fame in the fall of 2024. Since 2012, the Cyber Security Hall of Fame has celebrated global cybersecurity leaders’ accomplishments. The Hall of Fame included Nielsen in its cyber technology and business category.

“I credit this honor to the Software Engineering Institute’s incredible team of researchers,” said Nielsen. “Across four decades, they laid the foundations for the security of networked systems and continue to innovate this crucial and always changing field. In addition, during my first career in the Air Force, I was fortunate to work with cybersecurity teams at the Air Force Research Laboratory, especially the Information Directorate in Rome, New York, and at the National Security Agency.”

Nielsen has led the SEI since 2004. He previously served in the U.S. Air Force for 32 years, retiring as a major general and commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory. Nielsen is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).