Paul Ducklin will be amongst the many Sophos experts speaking at
the conference
Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses against viruses,
spyware and spam, today announced that experts from SophosLabs™, will be
presenting at the Virus Bulletin 2006 (VB2006) conference in
Montreal, 11-13 October 2006.
The Virus Bulletin conference is the industry's leading forum
where anti-virus researchers and corporations meet to discuss the
issues facing computer users. It is the one opportunity during the
year when companies can talk face-to-face with the developers who
produce anti-malware solutions from all of the major security
vendors.
Sophos speakers over the three day conference include:
Jason Bruce, Manager of Detection Development, "The
challenge of detecting and removing installed threats". Jason's
paper discusses the issues that are faced by anti-malware vendors
when detecting and removing modern threats.
Ross Thomas and Dmitry Samosseiko, Head of Spam
Operations, "The game goes on: an analysis of modern spam
techniques". Spam experts Ross and Dmitry analyse the many modern
anti-anti-spam techniques, with statistical reports and real-life
examples. Methods of combating these often highly effective and
'popular' spam techniques are explored.
Paul Ducklin, Head of Technology Asia Pacific, "Can
strong authentication sort out phishing and fraud?". Paul's
presentation traces the recent and rapid evolution of malware
techniques in response to technological changes in security
regimes.
Richard Baldry, Head of Strategic Alliances, Chairing
"Anti-Spyware Coalition - working together to combat spyware" panel
discussion.
The 16th Virus Bulletin International Conference will take place
11-13 October 2006 at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada.
About the Virus Bulletin conference
The Virus Bulletin (VB) conference has become a major highlight
of the anti-virus calendar, with many of its regular attendees
citing it as the anti-virus event of the year. The VB conference
provides a focus for the AV industry, representing an opportunity
for experts in the anti-virus arena to share their research
interests, discuss methods and technologies and set new standards,
as well as meet with - and learn from - those who put their
technologies into practice in the real world. More information
about the conference can be found on the Virus Bulletin conference
website.
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.