David Harley

David Harley
Born	1949
Residence	England
Fields	Author Information security Malware
Alma mater	Bangor University Open University

David Harley BA CITP FBCS CISSP is an IT security researcher, author/editor and consultant living in the United Kingdom, known for his books on and research into malware, Mac security,^[1] anti-malware product testing^[2] and management of email abuse.^[3]

Career

After a checkered career that included spells in music, bar-work, work with the mentally handicapped, retail and the building trade, Harley entered the IT field in the late 1980s, working initially in administration at the Royal Free Hospital in London, and in 1989 went to work for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (now merged into Cancer Research UK), where he held administrative and IT support roles and eventually moved into full-time security. In 2001 he joined the National Health Service where he ran the Threat Assessment Centre.^[4] After leaving the NHS in 2006 to work as an independent consultant,^[5] he worked closely with the security company ESET^[6] where since 2011 he holds the position of Senior Research Fellow,^[6] working with the Cyber Threat Analysis Center.^[7] Since 2009 he has been a Director of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO).^[8] He runs the Mac Virus website,^[9] and has an undefined executive role^[10] in AVIEN. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Writing

Harley is co-author (with Robert Slade and Urs Gattiker) of Viruses Revealed,^[11] and technical editor and principal author of The AVIEN Malware Defense Guide for the Enterprise.^[12]

He has also contributed chapters to a number of other security-related books, and sometimes writes for specialist security publishers such as Virus Bulletin^[13] and Elsevier.^[14] He often presents papers at specialist security conferences including Virus Bulletin, AVAR, and EICAR^[15] and blogs for ESET,^[16] Infosecurity Magazine,^[17] SC Magazine,^[18] (ISC)2,^[19] SecuriTeam,^[20] Mac Virus,^[21] and Small Blue-Green World.^[22] His Geek Peninsula^[23] metablog, though sporadically maintained, lists most of his current output including media mentions.

Family life

Harley hardly ever talks publicly about his private life, but a biographical article for Virus Bulletin,^[24] and the dedications page to Viruses Revealed indicate that he has a daughter. He lives with his third wife in Shropshire, in the UK.

Bibliography

• Bidgoli, Hossein, et al (2008). The Handbook of Computer Networks. Wiley. ISBN 9780471784609.  Volume 3, "E-Mail Threats and Vulnerabilities."
• Baccas, Paul, et al (2008). OS X Exploits and Defense. Syngress. ISBN 9781597492546.  Chapter 3: "Malicious Macs: Malware and the Mac." Chapter 4: "Malware Detection and the Mac."
• Harley, David, et al (2007). AVIEN Malware Defense Guide for the Enterprise. Syngress. ISBN 9781597491648.  (Editor, technical editor, several chapters.)
• Schiller, Craig A.,, Binkley, Jim et al (2007). Botnets: the Killer Web App. Syngress. ISBN 1597491357.  Co-wrote Chapter 5, "Botnet Detection: Tools and Techniques" with Jim Binkley.
• Bidgoli, Hossein, et al (2006). Handbook of Information Security. Wiley. ISBN 0471648337.  Volume 3, "E-Mail Threats and Vulnerabilities."
• Paulus, S., Pohlmann N., Reimer, H. et al (2004). ISSE 2004: Securing Electronic Business Processes. Vieweg. ISBN 9783528059101.  Massmailers: New Threats Need Novel Anti-Virus Measures.
• Bosworth, Seymour, Kabay M.E. et al (2002). Computer Security Handbook. John Wiley. ISBN 0471412589.  Co-wrote Chapter 49, "Medical Records Security" with Paul Brusil.
• Anonymous, et al (2002). Maximum Security Fourth Edition. SAMS. ISBN 0672324598.  Revised Chapter 17 "Viruses and Worms", Chapter 18 "Trojans."
• Anonymous, et al (2001). Maximum Security Third Edition. SAMS. ISBN 0672318717.  Chapter 17 "Viruses and Worms", Chapter 18 "Trojans."
• Harley, David, Robert Slade and Urs E. Gattiker (2001). Viruses Revealed. McGraw-Hill Companies. ISBN 0072130903.  Co-Author.

Papers

Harley's recent white papers, conference papers and presentations, and on-line articles are available on or linked from the ESET White Papers page.

References

1. ^ "OS X Exploits and Defense". Syngress.com. http://www.syngress.com/hacking-and-penetration-testing/OS-X-Exploits-and-Defense/. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
2. ^ Name (required) (18 June 2009). "Making Sense of Anti-Malware Comparative Testing « Small Blue-Green World". Smallbluegreenblog.wordpress.com. http://smallbluegreenblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/making-sense-of-anti-malware-comparative-testing/. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
3. ^ "Check Chain Mail and Hoaxes". Chainmailcheck.wordpress.com. http://chainmailcheck.wordpress.com/. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
4. ^ Dan Raywood (25 October 2010). "SC Magazine interview: David Harley, senior research fellow at ESET". SC Magazine UK. http://www.scmagazineuk.com/sc-magazine-interview-david-harley-senior-research-fellow-at-eset/article/181678/. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
5. ^ David HarleySmall Blue Green World, UK (1 January 2007). "Virus Bulletin : From immunology to heuristics". Virusbtn.com. http://www.virusbtn.com/virusbulletin/archive/2007/01/vb200701-insight. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
6. ^ ^{a b} http://www.eset.eu/press-2011/eset-infosecurity
7. ^ http://www.eset.eu/press-2010-attacks-on-facebook-and-other-social
8. ^ "Boards – Board of Directors". AMTSO. http://www.amtso.org/amtso---boards---board-of-directors.html. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
9. ^ "About Us « Mac Virus". Macviruscom.wordpress.com. http://macviruscom.wordpress.com/about/. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
10. ^ Aryeh Goretsky says: (28 February 2011). "20 years of Windows Malware « The AVIEN Blog". Avien.net. http://avien.net/blog/?p=639. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
11. ^ "Viruses Revealed: Amazon.co.uk: David Harley, Urs E. Gattiker, Robert Slade: Books". Amazon.co.uk. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Viruses-Revealed-David-Harley/dp/0072130903. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
12. ^ http://www.avien.net/publications.html
13. ^ "Virus Bulletin : Searching for 'david harley'". Virusbtn.com. http://www.virusbtn.com/search?s=david+harley. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
14. ^ "ScienceDirect – Information Security Technical Report : Making sense of anti-malware comparative testing". Dx.doi.org. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.istr.2009.03.002. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
15. ^ Eddy WillemsEICAR and G Data, Belgium (1 June 2011). "Virus Bulletin : EICAR 2011: a 20th anniversary in Austria". Virusbtn.com. http://www.virusbtn.com/virusbulletin/archive/2011/06/vb201106-EICAR. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
16. ^ "Infosecurity – Blog". Infosecurity-us.com. http://www.infosecurity-us.com/blog/user/david--harley. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
17. ^ "David Harley | ESET ThreatBlog". Blog.eset.com. http://blog.eset.com/tag/david-harley. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
18. ^ "Cybercrime Corner". SC Magazine US. http://www.scmagazineus.com/cybercrime-corner/section/1511/. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
19. ^ "(ISC)2 Blog: Authors". Blog.isc2.org. http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/authors.html#harley. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
20. ^ "SecuriTeam – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". En.wikipedia.org. 21 October 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecuriTeam. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
21. ^ http://macviruscom.wordpress.com/?s=david+harley
22. ^ "Welcome « Small Blue-Green World". Smallbluegreenblog.wordpress.com. 5 April 2011. http://smallbluegreenblog.wordpress.com/welcome/. Retrieved 12 November 2011. 
23. ^ "Geek Peninsula". Small Blue-Green World. http://geekpeninsula.wordpress.com/. Retrieved 19 November 2011. 
24. ^ "I'm OK, You're Not OK". Virus Bulletin. http://www.virusbtn.com/virusbulletin/archive/2006/11/vb200611-OK. Retrieved 20 November 2011. 

External links

• "Small Blue-Green World Consultancy". http://www.smallblue-greenworld.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-06-27. —home page
• "Facebook Page". http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Small-Blue-Green-World/211253058910674. Retrieved 2011-06-27. —Facebook home page
• "Mac Virus". http://www.macvirus.com/. Retrieved 2011-06-27. —Mac Virus
• "Twitter". http://www.twitter.com/DavidHarleyBlog. Retrieved 2011-06-27. —Twitter account
• "ESET blog". http://blog.eset.com/. Retrieved 2011-06-27. —Blog at ESET
• "AVIEN". http://avien.net/. Retrieved 2011-06-27. —AntiVirus Information Exchange Network

Persondata
Name	Harley, David
Alternative names	David A. Harley, David Anthony Harley, Bert Harley
Short description	English author and malware researcher
Date of birth	1949
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