Jim Hranicky is a Gator from way back. The newest addition to the UF Security team earned his Bachelor of Science degree right here 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.

Currently, Hranicky is working on a package that will help IT workers at UF preform risk assessments of their units, a package that show graphs of security incidents for units on campus, upgrades to the Security Team's Intrusion Detection system, and is working with the Security Team on a new standard build for the team's servers.

We welcome him to CNS and the UF Security team.