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Mark Harris is Director of Sophos Labs and leads a team of 70 staff based in the UK, the US, Australia, and Canada, providing 24/7 protection against malware, spam and web threats for Sophos customers. He also manages proactive technology development, including Sophos’s proactive Behavioral Genotype Protection technology, which uses forensic analysis to identify suspicious patterns and characteristics unique to either a virus family or a spam campaign.
Harris has over 20 years’ software engineering experience and nearly 12 years’ experience in software security, having spent 10 years at McAfee in a variety of roles, including Chief Software Architect and Engineering Director. Harris regularly contributes to the Sophos Labs blog, which provides round-the-clock information about newly discovered threats encountered by Sophos’s worldwide network of analysts.
Topic:
Server Side Polymorphism & The Changing Faces of Malware
Polymorphic viruses, the ability to change every time a file is infected, have been in existence for many years. Security analysts are able to reverse engineer these viruses because the polymorphic engine is embedded within the virus. Recently though there has been a new trend towards Server side polymorphism. Where the engine that changes each instance of the malware, is hidden from analysis. This trend has contributed to the significant increase in volume of malicious files.
In this presentation, server side polymorphism will be explained and the response from the security industry will be discussed.
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