William M. Fitzgerald (MSc, BSc)
PhD Student
Systems Security Group,
Computer Science Department,
University College Cork,
Cork, Ireland.

Introduction

William is pursuing a PhD in systems security at UCC supervised by Dr. Simon Foley. His PhD focuses on Risk-Driven Autonomic Security Policy Configurations for future networks. Previously his role was as an applied research engineer (National & European projects) for the Telecommunications Software & Systems Group at Waterford Institute of Technology before moving into a full-time PhD role. William has also graduated from N.U.I. Maynooth with a BSc and MSc (Research Mode 1). He has both industrial (Ericsson) and academic experience. William also has an interest in Counter Terrorism Tactics and MALWARE.


Selected Publications:
(1) W. M. Fitzgerald, S. N. Foley, M. O Foghlu : "Network Access Control Configuration Management using Semantic Web Techniques ", Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology (Accepted 2008, still to appear).

(2) S N. Foley, W. Fitzgerald, S. Bistarelli, B. O'Sullivan, M. O Foghlu" Principles of Secure Network Configuration: Towards a Formal Basis for Self-Configuration", Proceedings of IPOM 2006, 6th IEEE International Workshop on IP Operations and Management, October, 2006.

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