William M. Fitzgerald (M.Sc, B.Sc (Hons))
PhD Student
Cork Constraint Computation Centre,
Department of Computer Science ,
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 security policy configuration using ontology engineering techniques. Currently, William is a research assistant at the 4C (Cork Constraint Computation Centre). 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 (TSSG) research experience. William also has an interest in Counter Terrorism Tactics and MALWARE.

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Selected Publications:
(1) W. M. Fitzgerald, S. N. Foley: "Management of Heterogeneous Security Access Control Configuration using an Ontology Engineering Approach", 2nd ACM Workshop on Assurable & Usable Security Configuration, Chicago, USA, October 4, 2010.

(2) W. M. Fitzgerald, S. N. Foley: "Aligning Semantic Web Applications with Network Access Controls", International Journal on the Development and Application of Standards for Computers, Software Quality, Data Communications, Interfaces and Measurement,Computer Standards & Interfaces, Elsevier, October 2009, (In Print)

(3) W. M. Fitzgerald, S. N. Foley, M. Ó Foghlú: "Network Access Control Configuration Management using Semantic Web Techniques ", Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Vol. 41, No. 2, May, 2009.

(4) S. N. Foley, W. M. Fitzgerald: "An Approach to Security Policy Configuration using Semantic Threat Graphs", 23rd Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSec'09), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, July 12-15, 2009.

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