[Nets-seminars] Seminar today

[Richard G. Clegg]

Don't forget today's seminar at 16:00 in the Sir Eric Ash room -- 9th 
floor Roberts building.  This building requires a UCL security card so 
if you are coming from outside UCL then please contact me so you can get in.

Our speaker today is Angleos Marnerides from Lancaster.

*Title *: Insights of Malware Analysis in Cloud Environments

*Abstract*: Nowadays cloud environments evolve as a true necessity since 
they constitute the basis for the adequate operation of unified 
socio-economical ICT environments. Nevertheless, by virtue of their 
intrinsic characteristics with respect to their elasticity and use of 
virtualisation they hold high security risks which are challenging to 
confront from a system and network perspective. Regardless of the bulk 
of research produced for malware analysis over the Internet, we argue 
that the explicit case for clouds holds several issues that need to be 
thoroughly examined. Therefore, in this presentation we discuss on-going 
work conducted under the EPSRC India-UK Advanced Technology Centre 
(IU-ATC) Project regarding malware analysis in cloud environments, 
specifically looking at the virtualisation aspect forming the 
fundamental building block  of any cloud. In particular we examine the 
Kelihos malware and pinpoint how it behaves under several scenarios 
within a controlled virtualised cloud environment.

*Bio:* Dr. Angelos K. Marnerides obtained his M.Sc and PhD in Computer 
Science from Lancaster University in 2007 and 2011 respectively. He is 
currently a postdoctoral research associate in the department of 
Computing & Communications at Lancaster University. Prior to that he was 
a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Porto under the 
Carnegie Mellon University-Portugal postdoctoral scheme. In parallel, 
between August 2012 and September 2013 Angelos was also an honorary 
research associate with the department of Electronic and Electrical 
Engineering at UCL. In general, his research interests span in the broad 
domains of network resilience, network security and network management 
for next generation networks with a particular interest on traffic 
characterisation and profiling using statistical approaches. He is a 
member of the IEEE and ACM.

-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/

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