Jim Hranicky, Senior Security Engineer
Biography
Jim Hranicky is a Gator from way back. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree right here at UF in 1994, and has been honing his skills here ever since.
Hranicky spent 13 years as a UNIX system administrator, first in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and then in the UF CISE Department, before coming to the UF Security team this year. His professional bio includes open source patches accepted for the Ruby language; OpenLDAP; Mozilla; and for Heimdal, a freely available implementation of the Kerberos V protocol.
Hranicky is also the author of several software packages and enhancements. His released software, logstats, is a program that reads lines from a log file, checks them against groups (classes) of (Perl) regular expressions, and gives a report on the matches found in each class.
Hranicky works on software code to help IT workers at UF preform risk assessments of their units, code that show graphs of security incidents for units on campus, upgrades to the Security Team's Intrusion Detection system, and a standard build for the team's servers.
Job Description
Engage in risk assessments driven by legislation, policies and best
practices. Enable campus as a whole, and individual departments, to
make use of risk assessment data to better protect against and prepare
for threats.
Analyze threats to recommend UF security strategies. Design, create,
and maintain software code systems and processes to implement those strategies. This
includes active vulnerability scanning software, the campus intrusion
detection systems, and a variety of other processes. Advises committees
on the best security approach and policies for the University. Evaluate
and review security products and methods appropriate for the
University's environment. Helps manage and design security web site.
Represent
the University at training events, conferences and additional awareness
activities. Communicate to campus via presentations on security topics
of interest to local administrators, as well as the UFIRT blog and
podcasts.
Updated: December 2007
