Program (Agenda)
 

10 December 2008 Wednesday (Day 1)

Time Session
18:00 - 19:00

Registration

19:00 - 20:30

Cocktail Reception

 

11 December 2008 Thursday (Day 2)

Time Session
08:20 - 08:50

Registration

08:50 - 09:00

Opening Ceremony
Lighting the lamp and Saraswati Vandana.

09:00 - 09:20

Welcome Speech
Seiji Murakami (Japan), Chairman, AVAR.

Kailash Katkar (India), CEO & MD, Quick Heal Technologies.

09:20 - 10:00

Fighting International Organized Online Crime (Keynote Presentation )
Mikko Hypponen (Finland), Chief Research Officer, F-Secure Corporation.

10:00 - 10:15

Tea and Coffee Break

10:15 - 10:55

The Threat is in the Air
Enrique Gonzalez (Ireland), Response Coordinator, Microsoft.

10:55 - 11:35 StormTrap: Undetectable Mitigation of P2P Botnet
Sungbae Ji (Korea), Researcher, Incidents Analysis Team, KISC, KISA.
Sangwook Seo (Korea), Researcher, Incidents Analysis Team, KISC, KISA.
Chanho Ryu (Korea), Director, Incidents Analysis Team, KISC, KISA.
11:35 - 12:15

WOW64 Woes for Anti-Virus Products
Abhijit Kulkarni (India), Program Manager Development, Quick Heal Technologies.

Prakash Jagdale (India), Sr. Software Architect, Quick Heal Technologies.

12:15 - 12:25 Luncheon Speech
Sponsor presentations (There are still a number of sponsorship opportunities available. Contact avar2008 at aavar dot org for more information.)
12:25 - 13:25 Lunch
13:25 - 14:05 Second Generation Malicious Scripts
Rajesh Mony (USA), Technical Lead, Webroot Software.
14:05 - 14:45 New Malware, New Environment, New Testing Standards
David M Perry (USA), Global Director of Education, Trend Micro.
14:45 - 15:15

Anti-bot Countermeasures in Japan: Cyber Clean Center Project Update
Takashi Manabe (Japan), JPCERT/CC.

Chris Horsley (Japan), JPCERT/CC.

15:15 - 15:30

Tea and Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:10 What Makes the Rustocks Tick!
Chandra Prakash (USA), Lead Advanced Malware Research, Sunbelt Software.
16:10 - 16:50 Propagation of Malware Through Compromised Websites: Attack Trends and Countermeasures
S.S. Sarma (India), Scientist ‘D’, CERT-In.
16:50 - 17:30 Exploiting Anti-virtualization Techniques to Prevent Running of Malware
Andrew Lee, K7 Computing (India).
17:30 - 18:00

Sponsors Presentation.

Sponsor presentations (There are still a number of sponsorship opportunities available. Contact avar2008 at aavar dot org for more information.)

19:30 - 21:30

Pre-Dinner Drinks Followed by Gala dinner.

 

12 December 2008 Friday (Day 3)

Time Session
08:20 - 08:50

Registration

08:50 - 09:20

Anti Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO): The Status Right Now
Righard J. Zwienenberg (The Netherlands), Chief Research Officer, Norman. President, AMTSO.

09:20 - 10:00

Malware on Second Life: Myth or Reality?
Francois Paget (France), Senior Virus Research Engineer, McAfee Avert Labs.

10:00 - 10:15

Tea and Coffee Break

10:15 - 10:55

Cyber Threats 2018
Eugene Kaspersky (Russian Federation), Head of Anti-Virus Research, Kaspersky Labs.

10:55 - 11:35

A Tour of the Fraud Underground
Vincent Weafer (USA), VP Global Operations, Symantec Corporation.

11:35 - 12:15 Use of Statistic Methods for Fighting Malware
Zdenek Breitenbacher (Czech Republic), Malware Researcher, AVG Technologies.
12:15 - 12:25 Luncheon Speech
Sponsor presentations (There are still a number of sponsorship opportunities available. Contact avar2008 at aavar dot org for more information.)
12:25 - 13:25 Lunch
13:25 - 14:05 Malware Detection with Dynamic Blacklisting
Dmitry Gryaznov (USA), Sr. Research Architect, McAfee Avert Labs.
14:05 - 14:45 Search Engines - How trustworthy are they?
Alice Decker (Germany), Threat Researcher, Trend Micro.
14:45 - 15:15 10 Major Threats – The Threat that We Can’t See Threats
Shigeru Ishii (Japan), Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan.
15:15 - 15:30

Tea and Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:10

A Self-Learning AV Scanner
Arun Lakhotia (USA), University of Louisiana

Andrew Walenstein (USA), University of Louisiana

16:10 - 16:50

People Patching: Is User Education Any Use at All?
David Harley (USA), Research Author, ESET LLC.

Randy Abrams (USA), Director of Technical Education, ESET LLC.

16:50 - 17:10 Wildlist Reporter Speech
17:10 - 17:50

PANEL DISCUSSION

17:50 - 18:10

AVAR Members Meeting

 

Reserve Papers

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: A Study of Fads in the Threat Landscape

Jaime Lyndon A. Yaneza (USA) , Threat Research Manager, Trend Micro, Inc.

Cyber Terrorism

Swanand Dattaram Shinde (India), Software Engineer, Quick Heal Technologies.