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This Friday's seminar (1st November) is from Angelos Marnerides from
Lancaster. It is at 16:00 and note we will be in the Eric Ash room
on the 9th floor of the Roberts building. If you're coming from
outside UCL then please let me know so I can organise access for
you.<br>
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<p class=""><b>Title </b>: Insights of Malware Analysis in Cloud
Environments</p>
<p class=""><b>Abstract</b>: Nowadays cloud environments evolve as a
true necessity since they constitute the basis for the adequate
operation of unified socio-economical ICT environments. <span
class="">Nevertheless, by virtue of their intrinsic
characteristics with respect to their elasticity and use of
virtualisation they hold high security risks which are
challenging </span>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) <span class="">Project regarding malware analysis in
cloud environments, specifically looking at the virtualisation
aspect forming the fundamental building block of any cloud.</span> In
particular we examine the Kelihos malware and pinpoint how it
behaves under several scenarios within a controlled virtualised
cloud environment. <br>
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<b>Bio:</b> 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.<br>
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Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.richardclegg.org/">http://www.richardclegg.org/</a>
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