LSEC - Leaders in Security

Updating your anti-virus definitions has become an automated process for most end users and companies. The market of anti-virus software has matured, there are many solutions in the market available and the way they are organized to be able to fight the latest virus and other malware attacks are well established. ....
Are they ? Are the false positive rates sufficient enough to keep this bad stuff out and the allowing the right emails in ? How is it possible that with all of these technologies widely available, over the last three months the amount of spam that you’re receiving is as high as the amounts you’ve received during the whole of 2007 ?

Malware attacks are increasing in volume, that is a fact and should be considered; but at the same time, the level of custom attacks, especially engineered for directed attacks against people or companies has also increased. It is suggested that both criminal - organized crime are behind the large scale attacks, especially oriented towards
financial gain through large scale fraud. How can you and your organization better prepare yourself against those attacks that have their origins on a worldwide level ? How can we as a whole community can support the fight against potential cyberterrorism ?
During this seminar, LSEC wants to revisit the developments of Malware and some of the solutions against them. We will gain condifence on the tools and technologies we acquire and why they should be implemented, but we also consider some of their concerns and how we should increase the level of awareness within our organizations.

This seminar was part of LSEC’s contributions to the Global Security Week in Belgium, an effort to raise the awareness on all levels and throughout the end user, the business community and the government on the needs for information security in the world.

As special keynote speakers, we had Toralv Dirro - McAfee® Avert® Labs- EMEA Security Strategist.

Afternoon Program

13.00 Welcome & Registration : sandwich lunch offered by LSEC and its partners
14.00 Introduction : Setting the program and defining the outline, introduction to the Global Security Week, Ulrich Seldeslachts, CEO
14.10 A virus analyst in 15 minutes : Kaspersky - Eddy Willems

A day out of the life of a virus analyst. Who doesn’t want to become a virus analyst in 15 minutes? This case study takes you along in the life of the virus analyst, presents an overview of all components an analyst has to live with. The presentation will include a glimpse of Kaspersky Labs behind the scenes, during which we will demonstrate some of the analysis tools being used. Finally, returning to the real world, with a feeling of safety and security ...

14.55 Avoidable contents on your networks : keeping the unwanted out : Sophos, Marnix Van Meer

15.40 Coffee Break .

16.05 dfAnti-malware engines evolutions and threats impacting your mobile use : F-Secure - Jo Van Winckel

16.45 Keynote : Straight from the anti-malware labs : technological evolutions and sophistication of attacks : Toralv Dirro - McAfee® Avert® Labs- EMEA Security Strategist

The motivation behind Malware: Money Change$ Everything.
Evolution of the Threat: From Chat-Room controlled IRC Bots to Fast Flux C&C
Distribution of Malware: About Mass Hacks and Server Side Polymorphism
New Technologies to provide better protection

Toralv Dirro works for McAfee as Avert Labs EMEA Security Strategist. Working in in Virus Research for many years since 1994 at McAfee (Dr Solomon’s Software back then) after analysing viruses at the University of Hamburg before that, he got finally got bored with debugging things and focused on Network IPS and Vulnerability Assessment / Management. He recently rejoined the Research team. Toralv Dirro is a well reputed expert on next generation AV Technology and Network Intrusion Prevention and is a frequent speaker on those topics.

17.45. Panel discussion
18.30. Closing Reception & Networking
19.30 End of Seminar

Practical Details

Friday September 12th afternoon, Leuven - LSEC HQ - KU Leuven, ESAT - COSIC; Kasteelpark 10 - 3001 Heverlee

Free upon registration prior to August 30th, 2008 for
- LSEC vouchers (or presentation of this email)
- LSEC website members (register below if you haven’t already done so), LSEC members, LSEC member invites and LSEC affiliates (ISSA, ISACA, Agoria-ICT, KTN, TeleTrusT, EEMA, ...)
- information technology professionals with in interest in becoming information security professionals (subscribe below to apply)
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Submission fee of 150 €
- upon registration after August 30th

Submission fee of 500 €
- for consultants, vendors, industry representatives NON-member of LSEC

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