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Program

Wednesday 5th November

6.00 – 7.30

Cocktail party for AVAR members and speakers sponsored by McAfee


Thursday 6th November

Time

 

Title

Speaker

Location

8.00

30 mins Registration
8.30 15 mins Welcome address

Seiji Murakami, Japan Computer Security Research Center, Chairman of AVAR

Japan

8.45 60 mins

Keynote: 'Where Internet Threats Fit in the Overall Security Picture’

Vincent Weafer, Symantec Corporation and Richard Clarke, Good Harbor Consulting

USA

9.45

40 mins

Malicious code technology trends in a rapidly expanding internet

Jimmy Kuo, McAfee Security

USA

10.25

25 mins Tea break

10.50

40 mins

Application of Win32 executable file infectors on Intel Itanium and AMD Opteron based Win64 systems
  

Sha-Li Hsieh and Oleg Petrovsky, Antivirus Engineers, Computer Associates,

USA

11.30

40 mins

Virus Lifecycles and Life Expectancy

Larry Bridwell and Jaime Yaneza, ICSA Labs and Trend Micro, respectively

USA

12.10

40 mins

Sorting out malicious code - whose job is it anyway?

Paul Ducklin, Head of Technology, Asia Pacific, Sophos Anti-Virus respectively

Australia

12.50

60 mins Lunch

13.50

40 mins

Dealing with malicious code - a CERT perspective

Graham Ingram, General Manager, AusCERT

Australia

14.30

40 mins

How to deal with naming and detecting and sharing viruses when they get broken into little pieces of code

Nick Fitzgerald and Sean McDonald, Independent Consultant and Sophos Anti-Virus, respectively

New Zealand

15.10

20 mins Tea break

15.30

40 mins

How soon do you want to know?

Allan Dyer, President, AVAR

Hong Kong

16.10

40 mins

AVI-EWS - Co-operation on the Front Lines

Robert Vibert, AVIEN/AVIEWS

Canada

16.50

40 mins

Cyber Security Policy in Japan

Yasuhiro Kitaura, Assistant Director, Office of IT Security Policy Office, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan

Japan

17.30 60 mins Panel and Q&A Session, What are the challenges facing high-performance antivirus Matt Barrie, Sensory Networks, Inc. Australia

18.30

  Close of day 1

19.00

  Banquet

Friday 7th November

8.30

20 mins

Registration

8.50

40 mins

Malicious Code – Applying the Law through Partnerships

Nigel Phair, Australian Federal Police / HTCC, Team Leader, Investigations

Australia

9.30

40 mins

Comparing Handheld Operating System Security

Eric Chien, Senior Software Engineer, Symantec

Ireland

10.10

40 mins

Malicious Code Technology Trends - Win32 threats and trends
  

Scott Molenkamp, Analyst, CA/VET

Australia

10.50

20 mins

Tea break

11.10

40 mins

Should We Teach Virus Writing?
  

Vesselin Bontchev, Anti–virus researcher, FRISK Software International

Iceland

11.50

40 mins

A Database Approach to Malicious Code Identification

Kevin Houle, Artifact Analysis Team Leader, CERT, Carnegie Mellon University

USA

12.30

40 mins

'More noise about noise...'

David Banes, Technical Director,
MessageLabs Asia Pacific

Australia

13.10

60 mins

Lunch sponsored by Sensory Networks

14.10

40 mins

Email virus detection and blocking is not by itself good incident management

David Harley, Threat Assessment Centre Manager, UK National Health Service

UK

14.50

40 mins

Threat mitigation strategies for virus

Yasuko Kanno, Researcher, Information-technology Promotion Agency

Japan

15.30

20 mins

Internet Industry Association's commitment to security

Peter Coroneos, CEO, Internet Industry Association

Australia

15.50

20 mins

Tea break

16.10

40 mins

Panel Session

Chaired by Peter Coroneos

Australia

16.50

10 mins

End of Conference

17.00

60 mins

AVAR members meeting

18.00

 

Hospitality Program

Pre-registration with reception required

   
 
         
 
         
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