Program (Agenda)
 

10 December 2008 Wednesday (Day 1)

Time Session
16:00 - 18:00

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

Understanding and teaching Bots and Botnets
Randy Abrams (USA), Director of Technical Education, ESET.

10:55 - 11:35 Exploiting Anti-virtualization Techniques to Prevent Running of Malware
Andrew Lee, K7 Computing (India).
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 Digital River (Luncheon Speech)
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 - 15:00

Tea and Coffee Break

15:00 - 15:40 What Makes the Rustocks Tick!
Chandra Prakash (USA), Lead Advanced Malware Research, Sunbelt Software.
15:40 - 16:20 Propagation of Malware Through Compromised Websites: Attack Trends and Countermeasures
S.S. Sarma (India), Scientist ‘D’, CERT-In.
16:20 - 16:55 Sponsors Presentation (K7 Computing).
16:55 - 17:30 Sponsors Presentation (ESET).
19:30 - 21:30

Pre-Dinner Drinks Followed by Gala dinner.

 

12 December 2008 Friday (Day 3)

Time Session
08:50 - 09:20

Registration

09:20 - 10:00

Darwin inside the machines: malware evolution and the consequences for computer security.
Peter Szor (USA), Security Architect Symantec Security Response, Symantec Corporation.

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 - 13:25 Lunch
13:25 - 14:05

Cyber Terrorism

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

14:05 - 14:45 Search Engines - How trustworthy are they?
Alice Decker (Germany), Threat Researcher, Trend Micro.
14:45 - 15:00

Tea and Coffee Break

15:00 - 15:40

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

Andrew Walenstein (USA), University of Louisiana

15:40 - 16:20

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

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

16:20 - 16:50

AMTSO: Status Right Now

Andrew Lee, K7 Computing (India).

16:50 - 17:30 PANEL DISCUSSION.
17:30 - 18:00

AVAR Members Meeting