Greetings and Welcome to my homepage. My name is Professor Andrew Blyth, and I am a Head of the Information Security Research Group and Head of GSC-CSIRT here in the Faculty of Advanced Technology (FAT), University of Glamorgan. I teach on various information security courses at Masters level.
This year I am teaching the following modules and they are available on Blackboard:
- Network Security
- Practical UNIX Security
- Practical Windows Security
- Network Administration and Security
I am interested in research, and I am involved in various research projects. The main research question that I am attempting to address is how do achieve security across a system of systems. In particular:: a) How do you creating intrusion detection systems that can be easily extended across an entire enterprise and that can make use of many disparate and diverse sensor type, and b) How can you analyse the data produced by intrusion detection systems so as to perform real-time (or near real-time) threat assessment.
Consequently I am interested in the following general areas: Intrusion Detection Systems (Host and Network based), Information Security Early Warning Systems, Information Warfare, Information Assurance, Computer Forensics, Information Security & Computer Crime. I have published some papers in these areas. I have also written a book on Information Assurance:
Andrew Blyth and Gerald L. Kovacich, Information Assurance, Springer, 2001, ISBN 1-85233-326-X
I also make use of PGP for secure communications. If you want to talk to me in a secure manner then you can download my PGP Key.