The WildList Organization International
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Ian Whalley graduated in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Manchester (England) in 1994. It was whilst at university that he became fascinated both with how people use computers to do things that they are not supposed to, and with how to prevent these people from doing these things. He started his career working for anti-virus vendor Sophos Plc, but became editor of anti-virus industry journal 'Virus Bulletin' in March 1995. After two years of product testing, virus analysing, and both gently and not-so-gently prodding anti-virus companies into making better and more usable products, he remembered the old adage that if you want a job doing properly, you should do it yourself, and returned to designing and developing anti-virus software for Sophos. At Sophos he also managed and secured a network of Internet-connected servers, which helped encourage his addiction to such arcane arts as Unix, programming sendmail.cf, name server management, intrusion detection, and Cisco IOS configuration. In May 1999, he moved to New York to take up his current post in the Massively Distributed Systems group at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center. Here he works on designing and implementing future technologies for IBM and Symantec's Digital Immune System, and would like to describe himself as working in the Immune System's skunkworks department. In his limited spare time, he used to enjoy amateur Roman archaeology (unfortunately, since the amount of Roman archaeology in the USA can perhaps best be described as 'limited', this looks set to be curtailed), modern history, foreign travel, and getting hopelessly lost on the roads of Westchester County. He runs a small network of FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows system at home, and consequently hopes one day to invent a foolproof system of keeping wiring organised. |
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Ian Whalley