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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.<br>
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Our speaker today is Angleos Marnerides from Lancaster.<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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<p class=""><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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