Fighting malware and spam
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 |
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| 19.00 | Welcome drinks reception | ||
Thursday 30 Sept
| Corporate stream | Technical stream | ||
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 14.40-15.20 |
Unknown virus detection and prevention
Paul Hodgson, BT Exact |
Malicious media - ASF scripting
Marius van Oers, McAfee Avert Network Associates |
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| 15.20 | Tea and coffee | ||
| 15.40-16.20 |
Electronically transmitted disease?
H.W. LeBourgeois, Tulane University of Medicine |
Unpacking strategies
Alex Shipp, MessageLabs |
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| 16.20-17.00 |
Panel discussion: Single vendor vs. multiple vendor Led by Shawn Campbell, Ford Motor Company |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 17.00-17.40 |
Panel discussion: What is an infection? Led by David Perry, Trend Micro |
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| 17.40-17.50 | Close of conference | ||
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