AusCERT

Mark McPherson's career has spanned more than a decade in the IT industry, the last eight of which have been spent as a security analyst and educator with the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT).

Mark's computer security experience includes front-line and management roles in incident response and course development and delivery, conference and seminar presentations around the globe. He currently occupies the position of Manager for Training and Education with AusCERT.

For the past several years, Mark has been coordinating and delivering AusCERT Computer Security and Incident Handling training programmes to government and educational organisations throughout Australia and the Asia Pacific region, including projects for CAUDIT (www.caudit.edu.au), APEC and ASEAN.

In 2001, Mark was designated as AusCERT's team representative to FIRST (Forum of Incident Response Security Teams), and at the 2002 FIRST conference Mark was elected by the membership to the FIRST Steering Committee and FIRST.ORG Inc Board. Mark is currently co-chair of the FIRST 2005 conference programme committee and a member of the FIRST Educational Committee.

Mark was involved in the creation of the Asia-Pacific Computer Emergency Repsonse Team (APCERT) in 2002. APCERT is a coalition of CSIRTs (Computer Security Incident Response Teams) from 13 economies across the Asia Pacific region who cooperate on regional incident handling and information dissemination (www.apcert.org). AusCERT continues its involvement as chair of APCERT.