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Eugene Kaspersky

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Eugene Kaspersky
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Eugene Kaspersky was born on October 4, 1965 in Novorossiysk, USSR. He is a cryptologist, information security specialist, and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kaspersky Lab. He has written articles about computer viruses and has spoken on various security conferences. He co-founded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 which is a well-known antivirus company from Russia. He graduated from the Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science, an institute co-sponsored by the Russian Ministry of Defence and the KGB.

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Natalya Kaspersky

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Natalya Kaspersky
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Natalya Ivanovna Kasperskaya, or Natalya Kaspersky is one of the famous women working in the IT Security Industry. She was the Co-founder and Chairwoman of the Russian antivirus software company Kaspersky Lab. Until 2007 she was CEO of Kaspersky Lab and then stepped back from CEO position in Kaspersky Lab and took over a daughter company, InfoWatch. She is the co-founder and director in the companies Nanosemantics, virtual talking agents, and Kribrum, social media monitoring.

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Sanjay Bavisi, Jay Bavisi

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Sanjay Bavisi, Jay Bavisi
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Sanjay Bavisi is the Co-Founder and President of EC-Council, a global organization that certifies individuals in Security Education, Training, Information Security, Forensic Analysis, Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security. He is the Co-founder of the famous Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), Computer Hacking Forensic Investigator (C|HFI), Secure Analyst (E|CSA), and Licensed Penetration Tester (L|PT) programs and certifications.

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cktricky

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Ken Johnson
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Ken Johnson is a Senior Application Security Consultant performing source code analysis and web application penetration testing and one of the members and contributors of the Attack Research Blog at www.carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com. He has spoken at AppSec DC, OWASP NoVA, Northern Virginia Hackers Association.

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ilektrojohn

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Ioannis Kakavas
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Ioannis Kakavas is a Greek Infosec enthusiast, a graduate of M.Sc Information and Communication Systems Security in the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Sweden, holds a Dipl. Ing in Electrical&Computer Engineering in National Technical University of Athens , currently conducting his M.Sc. thesis in the area of Critical Information Security in Technishe Universitat Darmstadt and he is a Consultant I&AM at IT Advisor.He is the owner of the blog www.diveintoinfosec.wordpress.com which is about IT and Infosec.

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bgp4, gdead, snow hippie

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Bruce Potter
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Bruce Potter is the chief technologist and cofounder of Ponte Technologies. Prior to founding Ponte Technologies, Mr. Potter served as a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton for almost four years where he lead a team focusing on emerging technologies such as wireless security, software assurance, trusted computing, and advanced computer network defense capabilities. In his role at Booz Allen, Mr. Potter served as a technologist overseeing a variety of client engagements as well as managing the day to day operations and logistics of his team. Prior to joining Booz Allen, Mr. Potter held several jobs focused on security and network operations including managing network and security operations for Network Solutions and CTO for a transaction processing startup in Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Potter has coauthored a number of books including "802.11 Security" and "Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security" published through O'Reilly. Mr. Potter also regularly writes articles and presents at a wide variety of security conferences. Mr. Potter is the founder of The Shmoo Group of security, crypto, and privacy professionals. Through The Shmoo Group, Mr. Potter assists with a number of open source projects and the yearly ShmooCon security conference held in Washington, DC.

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Birdman

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Jeremy Chiu
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Jeremy Chiu (aka Birdman) has more than ten years of experience with host-based security, focusing on kernel technologies for both the Win32 and Linux platforms. In early 2001 he was created Taiwan's first widespread trojan BirdSPY. The court dropped charges after Jeremy committed to allocate part of his future time to assist Taiwan law enforcement in digital forensics and incidence response. Jeremy specializes in rootkit/backdoor design. Jeremy also specializes in reverse engineering and malware analysis, and has been contracted by law enforcements to assist in forensics operations. Jeremy is a sought-after speaker for topics related to security, kernel programming, and object-oriented design; in addition to frequently speaking at security conferences, Jeremy is also a contract trainer for law enforcements, intelligence organizations, and conferences such as DEFCON 18, SySCAN (09 08), Hacks in Taiwan (07 06 05), HTICA(06 08) and OWASP Asia (08 07). In 2005, Jeremy founded X-Solve Inc. and successfully developed forensics and anti-malware products. In July 2007, X-Solve was acquired by Armorize Technologies. In Oct 2010, he left Armorize and created a new research team, Xecure-Lab.

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Darkfloyd

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Anthony Lai
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Anthony Lai (aka Darkfloyd) has worked on code audit, penetration test, crime investigation and threat analysis and acted as security consultant in various MNCs. Anthony has worked with researchers to convey talks about Chinese malware and Internet Censorship in Blackhat 2010 and DEFCON 18. His interest falls on studying exploit, reverse engineering, analyse threat and join CTFs. He has found VXRL (Valkyrie-X Security Research Group) in Hong Kong and keep themselves to connect to and work with various prominent and respectable hackers and researchers.

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0x0ptim0us

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Fardin Allahverdinazhand
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Fardin Allahverdinazhand is a Security Researcher from Azarbaycan, Iran. He owns the blog www.0x0ptim0us.blogspot.com.

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Myrcurial

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James Arlen
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A hacker-turned-security consultant who works by day implementing information security for large corporations and whose interests include "organizational change, social engineering, blinky lights and shiny things." He is a principal at Push The Stack Consulting providing security consulting services to the utility and financial verticals. He has been involved with implementing a practical level of information security in Fortune 500, TSE 100, and major public-sector corporations for more than 15 years. James is also a contributing analyst with Securosis, founder of the think|haus hackerspace and has a recurring column on Liquidmatrix Security Digest. Best described as: "Infosec geek, hacker, social activist, author, speaker, and parent." His areas of interest include organizational change, social engineering, blinky lights and shiny things.

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