David Harley
Job title:
CEO, Small Blue-Green World, and independent author
Areas of expertise:
Apple security, malware, anti-malware testing, psychosocial aspects of security, user education, email management, social media, medical informatics
Biography:
The Apple Security Blog, by David Harley
David Harley, CITP, FBCS, CISSP, is an IT security researcher, author and consultant living in the UK. He has worked in IT (largely in medical informatics) since the 1980s, increasingly focused on security and anti-malware research since 1989. Between 2001 and 2006 he managed the UK National Health Service’s Threat Assessment Centre, and since 2006 he has provided authoring and consultancy services to the anti-virus industry.
Since 2009 he has been a director of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO). He runs the Mac Virus website and AVIEN (the Anti-Virus Information Exchange Network), and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (now the BCS Institute). He was principle author and technical editor of “The AVIEN Malware Defense Guide for the Enterprise” and co-authored “Viruses Revealed”, as well as contributing to many other books including “OS X Exploits and Defense”. He has a daunting back-catalog of research papers and articles, and also blogs for Mac Virus, AVIEN, ESET (where he holds the title Senior Research Fellow), (ISC)², and numerous other websites.