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08 Jun 2009

Global director of SophosLabs puts Conficker under the microscope in educational webcast

Find out why Conficker caused havoc for businesses and learn how to avoid it from happening again

IT security and control firm Sophos today announced that Mark Harris, global director of SophosLabsâ„¢, will take a closer look at Conficker, one of the most troubling worms of the year. The webcast is scheduled for Thursday, June 25 at 9:00am ET.

Microsoft quickly issued a patch while security vendors provided protection against the worm that exploited the vulnerability, yet the worm spread like wildfire, infecting millions of computers. This webcast will explore why it happened and how businesses can prevent it from happening again.

Mark Harris is director of SophosLabs and leads a team of 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 more than 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 SophosLabs blog, which provides round-the-clock information about newly discovered threats encountered by Sophos's worldwide network of analysts.

To register for this webinar, please visit:

www.brighttalk.com/webcasts

About Sophos

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 complete security solutions that are simple to deploy, manage, and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, mobile and network security solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers.

Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.