Cormac Herley

Cormac Herley Principal Researcher Microsoft Research

Cormac Herley is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. His main current interests are data and signal analysis problems that reduce complexity and help users avoid harm. He's been at MSR since 1999, and before that was at HP where he headed the company’s currency anti-counterfeiting efforts. Some of his recent published work has focused on problems of passwords and authentication, the economics of cybercrime, phishing prevention technologies and keylogger resistant access to existing web accounts.

He received the PhD degree from Columbia University, the MSEE from Georgia Tech, and the BE (Elect) from the National University of Ireland. He has authored more than 50 peer reviewed papers, is inventor of 70 or so US patents (issued or pending) and has shipped technologies used by millions of users.