Review Analysis Board

  1. Larry Bridwell (Chairman)
  2. Pedro Bustamante
  3. Alice Decker
  4. Simon Edwards
  5. Mark Kennedy
  6. Roel Schouwenberg
  7. Andrew Lee
  8. Andreas Clementi
  9. Dmitry Gryaznov

 

Larry Bridwell (Chairman)

As VP of Global Security Strategies, Larry works closely with the AVG research group to determine current and future malware trends and then develop and promote best practices and protection strategies using AVG security products. Prior to joining AVG, Larry was Program Manager for Content Security Programs at ICSA Labs, the independent testing division of Verizon Business.

He is an active member of several national and international information security working groups, serves on the Board of Directors for Anti-Virus Asia Researchers (AVAR), and participates in security conferences, roundtables and workshops globally.

 

 

 

Pedro Bustamante

Pedro Bustamente is Senior Research Adviser at Panda Security. He studied at the University of Southern California and after launching some IT companies of his own in the US, in 1997 he was named General Manager of Panda USA, developing projects such as the protection of Boeing?s email system worldwide. In 2000, he moved to Panda Security?s HQ in Spain, where he participates in defining Panda Security products for the consumer and corporate markets.

 

Alice Decker

Alice graduated from University of ?Al. I. Cuza? in Rumania with degree in physical chemistry. She exchanged the physics with computer science after she relocated to Germany. As MCSD (Microsoft Certificated Solution Developer) certificated she worked as software developer. She developed in C++ and other object oriented languages for insurance and logistic software providers.

Alice joined Trend Micro in 2001 as Virus Analyst working in second level of antivirus support. During this time she extended her domain of activity to application of computer forensics, malware behavior research and co-relation of core technologies in developing of customized security solutions. Since 2007 Alice is active for the CTO office as Senior Researcher with R&D contribution in internal AV operations. Since January 2008 Alice actively participates and engages in AMTSO.

 

 

Simon Edwards

Simon Edwards is a computer security journalist. He joined Dennis Publishing in 1995 and is currently features editor of Computer Shopper, the UK's largest consumer computer magazine. Simon is also Technical Director of Dennis Technology Labs, an independent testing facility that evaluates personal and business technology. It specialises in security testing using a world-class anti-malware testing framework.

 

 

 


Mark Kennedy

Mark joined Symantec as an engineer in 1991, and spent his first nine years there working on Norton Utilities before making the transition to computer security. In 2001, Mark developed Symantec?s Script Blocking technology in response to Java Script and VB Script based threats, and presented a paper on it at Virus Bulletin. In 2002, Mark became the architect on the Anti-Virus engines, and moved to head up Symantec?s Behavior Blocking engines in 2004.

Throughout his tenure in the security industry, Mark has been increasingly concerned with method of testing security software. In May of 2007, Mark presented a paper on Dynamic Testing at the first CARO workshop in Iceland. Mark?s engagement with other AV Vendors and testers led to the formation of the AMTSO in Bilbao, Spain in January, 2008. Mark has been actively involved with AMTSO since its inception, and currently serves as a member of the AMTSO Review Analysis Board.

 

Roel Schouwenberg

Roel Schouwenberg is a Senior Anti-Virus Researcher with Kaspersky Lab.

Roel has nearly a decade of malware research and analysis experience. He monitors the state of malware in North America, providing advanced analysis of malware.

Roel focuses on classic virus techniques that are used in today's malware and improving proactive detection capabilities and conducts research into file format parsing vulnerabilities such as malicious PDFs. He's also heavily involved with the issues of anti-malware testing and is one of the founding members of AMTSO.

 

 

 

 

Andrew L ee

Andrew Lee is Chief Technology Officer of K7 Computing Ltd, the renowned Indian Anti-Virus company and CEO of AVIEN. He is also a member of AVAR, a reporter for the Wildlist organization and was an original board member of AMTSO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andreas Clementi

Andreas Clementi is the Chairman of AV-Comparatives.org, an Austrian Non-Profit organization founded in 2003 which provides various detailed independent Anti-Virus software tests and reviews free to the public. He studied at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck and has over ten years experience in the security field. For the benefit of the users, he is also a founding member of AMTSO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dmitry Gryaznov

 

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