Mark Gregory was born in Melbourne Australia. He went to Guildford Grammar School in Western Australia where he matriculated in 1979 and moved to the Royal Military College Duntroon as an Australian Army officer candidate. He graduated from the Royal Military College Duntroon in 1983 as an officer in RAEME. He completed a BEng (Elec)(Hons) in 1984 at the UNSW (Royal Military College), a MEng in 1992 at RMIT University and a PhD in 2008 at RMIT University. Mark is currently a Senior Lecturer focusing on Network Engineering and Internet security and privacy in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia and has published more than 70 refereed papers. Mark is a Fellow of Engineers Australia and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Mark has been the founding director of several companies that provide IT services, systems and software development. Mark is currently the Managing Editor of the Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (AJTDE).