VB2004 conference programme

Wednesday 29 Sept

	Corporate stream		Technical stream
14.00-18.00	Sponsor presentations
16.00-18.00	Discussion: AVIEWS Live! Led by Andrew Lee, AVIEWS
19.00	Welcome drinks reception

Thursday 30 Sept

	Corporate stream	Technical stream
09.15	Opening address
09.30-10.10	A traveller's diary - one organization's journey to improve its anti-virus infrastructure Margaret Patton, Ministry of Management Services, Government of British Columbia	Virus throttling for instant messaging Matthew Williamson, Sana Security Inc. Alan Parry, Hewlett Packard Labs
10.10	Tea and coffee
10.30-11.10	The effect of computer virus outbreaks on anti-virus companies Sunil K. Shrestha, The George Washington University John R. Harrald, The George Washington University Sonia Schmitt, The World Bank Institute	Gatekeeper II: new approaches to generic virus prevention Richard Ford, Florida Institute of Technology Matt Wagner, Microsoft Corporation Jason Michalske, Florida Institute of Technology
11.10-11.50	Watch the money-go-round, watch the malware-go-round Heather Goudey, Computer Associates	Principles and practise of x-raying Frédéric Perriot, Symantec Peter Ferrie, Symantec
11.50-12.30	Lies, damn lies and computer virus costs... Steve Garfink, InDefense Mary Landesman, Antivirus.about.com	Canning more than SPAM with Bayesian filtering Martin Overton, IBM Global Services
12.30	Lunch
14.00-14.40	Preventing the next blast - the necessity of intrusion prevention systems in the fight against malware infections Brian Gault, Greenwich Technology Partners Christine Whalley, Greenwich Technology Partners	The return of script viruses Eric Chien, Symantec Security Response
14.40-15.20	Unknown virus detection and prevention Paul Hodgson, BT Exact	Malicious media - ASF scripting Marius van Oers, McAfee Avert Network Associates
15.20	Tea and coffee
15.40-16.20	Electronically transmitted disease? H.W. LeBourgeois, Tulane University of Medicine	Unpacking strategies Alex Shipp, MessageLabs
16.20-17.00	Panel discussion: Single vendor vs. multiple vendor Led by Shawn Campbell, Ford Motor Company
19.30	Pre-dinner drinks followed by gala dinner

Friday 01 Oct

	Corporate stream	Technical stream
09.40-10.20	The waxing and waning of spammers' trickery John Graham-Cumming, Sophos Anti-Spam Task Force	Secure mobile code execution service Tzi-cker Chiueh, State University of New York, Stony Brook
10.20	Tea and coffee
10.40-11.20	Remove the anonymous email sender Steen Pedersen, Ementor	Advanced survival techniques in recent Internet worms Gabor Szappanos, VirusBuster
11.20-12.00	Corporate spam fighting: 5 years of success and the lessons learned John Morris, Nortel Networks Chris Lewis, Nortel Networks	A worm's evolution Tomer Honen, eSafe CSRT, Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd.
12.00-12.40	Spam epidemiology: on measuring the progress toward solving the global spam Paul Judge, CipherTrust Phyllis A. Schneck, CipherTrust	Proactive detection of code injection worms Charles Renert, Determina
12.40	Lunch
14.00-14.40	CSI - cyber security investigators Bryan Sartin, Ubizen	LIV - the Linux integrated viruswall Teobaldo Adelino Dantas de Medeiros, Federal Center of Technological Education Paulo S. Motta Pires, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
14.40-15.20	Combating serious and organized hi-tech crime John Lyons, National Hi-Tech Crime Unit	How to achieve 10Gbps performance for integrated anti-virus and anti-spam network-based security systems Jon Curnyn, Detica
15.20	Tea and coffee
15.40-16.20	Next generation peer-to-peer threats - from mild to wild Robert Freeman, Internet Security Systems	A novel approach to improve scanners using fuzzy logic Amit Saxena, G.G. University, Bilaspur, India Anshuman Dwivedi, G.G. University, Bilaspur, India
16.20-17.00	Antivirus outbreak response testing and impact Andreas Marx, AV-test.org	Trapping worms in a virtual net Hamish O'Dea, Computer Associates Australia
17.00-17.40	Panel discussion: What is an infection? Led by David Perry, Trend Micro
17.40-17.50	Close of conference

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