I currently work at CERN in the IT Department for the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) and the EGEE project. I am involved in several Computer Security activities at CERN and I am also chairing the EGEE Operational Security Coordination Team. I am especially interested in operational security issues, from building and deploying security monitoring services, to computer security incidents handling. Having simultaneously a site security (CERN) and a Grid security focus is an ongoing and exciting challenge.

Before joining CERN in September 2005, I was the Information Security Officer of the e-Science Centre at the CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK). I shared my time between system administration of different UNIX/Linux servers and various IT security activities. Basically, this consisted in defining, spreading and enforcing good practices amongst eScience system administrators and users. In addition, I developed and/or maintained a set of tools that makes monitoring and managing the eScience systems easier. I was also representing eScience within the CCLRC Computers and Networks Security Group. From November 2004, I acted as the UK/I Security Contact in the LHC Computing Grid project, and became part of the EGEE/LCG Operational Security Coordination Team.

Prior to that, I did a 6-month project in a Computer Science research laboratory at Oxford Brookes University. This was a good opportunity to work on various computing issues, including Distributed Collaborative Visualization, Web technologies, Java and middleware, through the development of a graphical editor for the Visual Beans project, under the supervision of Pr. David Duce.

My personal interests have been oriented towards Linux, GNU community and IT security issues for a while.
I started a few years ago to provide Linux services to some people I know with an old box running Debian. I use it to try lots of different things whilst they can discover Linux and the GNU/GPL philosophy in a relatively privileged environnement.

I graduated in September 2003 from the University of Technology of Compiegne (France), where I took two diplomas: an Engineering degree in Computer Science and a French Master of Sciences dedicated to PhD, focused on Technology of Information and Systems.