"Spafford wins ACSAC Cybersecurity Artifacts Competition and Impact Award"

Professor Eugene H. Spafford earned the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2022 Cybersecurity Artifacts Competition Impactful System Award for his artifact Tripwire: Integrity Scanning as Intrusion Detection. The selection of Spafford's work was based on its major contributions to cybersecurity research and practice. Tripwire was a UNIX environment integrity-checking program that enabled system administrators to keep track of newly added, deleted, and updated files and directories in file systems. The original tool was designed to be compatible with different versions of UNIX. Tripwire's architecture prioritized program and database portability due to the diverse nature of computer hardware at the majority of sites. Tripwire, designed to improve intrusion detection, was released on November 2, 1992, to beta test sites worldwide. Several issues were discovered, and four upgrades were issued in 1993. Tripwire's first official release was in December 1993. Gene Kim, a Purdue University undergraduate computer science major at the time, helped with coding and testing the system. Tripwire is still commonly employed. As the first free, publicly accessible intrusion detection tool and the first integrity monitoring tool, it was met with considerable success and attention. In the first year after its release, there were thousands of downloads, and based on sharing on other platforms, it was likely utilized by tens of thousands. Adoption of subsequent releases increased even further. For years, it was recommended by major Computer and Incident Response Teams (CIRTs) and numerous suppliers, and it was available in all the commonly used repositories. This article continues to discuss the Tripwire tool that earned Professor Eugene H. Spafford the ACSAC 2022 Cybersecurity Artifacts Competition Impactful System Award. 

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