Web sites are the public face of the organisation on the Internet.
As everyone from the Department of Justice to the Conservative and Labour parties now knows, that makes them both an obvious target for others with different views and a great potential embarrassment when things go wrong. This talk will consider how web services can be compromised and what you can do to prevent the worst happening. Before that he was a Unix systems manager at Cardiff University, responsible for the web servers and caches. Successful attacks on websites can result in a great deal of bad publicity, especially when an official site is replaced by pages presenting the host organisation in an unflattering light. Damage to political and government web sites has made the national news, but defacing any website is likely to harm its owner.