Vincent Ribaillier holds a Master in Information Security and is the Security Officer of the French CNRS High-Performance Supercomputing center (IDRIS). Since his arrival at CNRS, he has been involved as an IT expert specialized in security and user administration in two major HPC European projects : DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) which started in 2004 until mid-2011 and PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) which started in 2008.