Andrew Cormack

Andrew Cormack has been Head of JANET-CERT since 1999. The team provides advice and assistance on computer security matters to the 800 sites connected to the JANET network in the UK. Since 1999 the team has also been providing services under contract to sites connected to HEANet. Andrew's ambition is to persuade all those responsible for networked computers to take security measures before they are broken into, rather than after. For some reason this seems less obvious to system owners than it should.

Before joining JANET-CERT Andrew was a systems administrator at the University of Wales, Cardiff, where he was responsible for web, news, e-mail and cache systems. He wrote two commissioned reports on Web Caching and Web Security in 1998: sadly there has been far less progress since then in the security field than in caching.