Barrett Lyon - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!
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Updated on January 07, 2026
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| Name | Barrett Lyon |
| First Name | Barrett |
| Last Name | Lyon |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Birthday | March 18 |
| Birth Year | 1978 |
| Place of Birth | |
| Home Town | |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Pisces |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Father | Not Available |
| Mother | Not Available |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Not Known |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
Barrett Lyon Biography
Barrett Lyon is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on March 18, 1978 in United States.
The son of a lawyer, Lyon was raised in Auburn, California. Although he initially struggled in school due to dyslexia, in middle school he became fascinated with computers. He soon found that the methods he used to overcome dyslexia allowed him to quickly gain an expert knowledge of computers. While in high school, he set up Linux servers to host webpages for friends and also managed his school’s computer network. In 1995, while investigating a possible vulnerability in Network Solutions he accidentally caused AOL’s website to go down for three days. After high school, Lyon enrolled at California State University, Sacramento and studied philosophy and photography. Now that he is 42 he has a daughter named Isabella Lyon and a wife named Simone Lyon.
Lyon is the creator of the Opte Project, which is an Internet mapping project that seeks to make an accurate representation of the extent of the Internet using visual graphics. The project was started in October 2003 in an effort to provide a useful Internet map with open source code. The project has gathered support worldwide and is part of the catalogs of the Boston Museum of Science and The Museum of Modern Art.
Barrett Gibson Lyon (born March 18, 1978) is an American Internet entrepreneur, pilot, and artist.
Barrett Lyon Net Worth
Barrett is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Barrett Lyon's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Artist |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
After leaving Prolexic, Lyon co-founded of BitGravity, a content delivery network and served as its chief technology officer. BitGravity focuses on providing content delivery for rich media sources. While at BitGravity, to lessen billing confusion regarding the definition of a GigaByte, Lyon defined an accepted billing amount, coined as the BarretByte. Lyon left BitGravity in June 2009. BitGravity was acquired in January 2011 by Tata Communications.
Lyon then founded Defense.Net in December 2012 to build a DDoS defense network for the modern Internet. In 2014, the company was named one of the 100 Hottest Private Companies in North America by Red Herring and acquired shortly after by F5 Networks purportedly for between $50 and $100 million.
Ethnicity, religion & political views
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In 2009 with funding from Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose, he founded XDN. XDN’s first products provide businesses with greater control over existing Content Delivery Networks by allowing them to use CDN’s based on factors like price and service. In November 2012, XDN was acquired by Fortinet.
Who is Barrett Lyon Dating?
According to our records, Barrett Lyon is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of January 13, 2024, Barrett Lyon’s is not dating anyone.
Relationships Record: We have no records of past relationships for Barrett Lyon. You may help us to build the dating records for Barrett Lyon!Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Lyon has been called a hero for his work tracking Russian denial of service attack extortion groups. His work has been featured around the globe and is featured in the cyber thriller Fatal System Error. He provided details and helped coordinate with multinational law enforcement groups which resulted in the capture of Ivan Maksakov, Alexander Petrov, and Denis Stepanov. The three men were at the heart of an extortion ring which was extorting money from banks, Internet casinos, and other web based businesses. Reported damages caused by Maksakov, Petrov, and Stenanov range in the tens of millions of dollars. On October 8, 2007, Maksakov, Petrov, Stenanov were found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison in the Russian Federation with a 100,000 ruble penalty.
Facts & Trivia
Barrett Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Barrett Lyon celebrates birthday on March 18 of every year.
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